Stationers' Company's School

Stationers' Company's School
Established	1861
Closed	1983
Type	Grammar school then Voluntary Controlled Comprehensive from 1967
Founder	Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers
Location	Mayfield Road Hornsey Vale Middlesex N8 9LR England, UK Coordinates: 51°34′51″N 0°06′51″W / 51.5809°N 0.1142°W / 51.5809; -0.1142
Local authority	Haringey
Students	1100 as comprehensive
Gender	Boys
Ages	11–18
Fate	Closed in 1983

The Stationers' Company's School was a former boys' grammar school, then comprehensive in Hornsey.

History

It started as the Stationers' Company's Foundation School. In 1861 it was established at Bolt Court near Fleet Street. In 1891 it moved to Mayfield Road in Hornsey, north-east from Crouch End.

Grammar school

The speech night was sometimes held at the Stationer's Hall. The analogous girls' was Hornsey High School, which became Hornsey Secondary School for Girls. It was a voluntary aided school, becoming voluntary controlled in 1966.^[1] In 1933 the school was extended and a new assembly hall, gymnasium, dining hall and workshops were accommodated in a new brick extension on Mayfield Road.

Comprehensive

Stationers' Company's Grammar School became a comprehensive boys' school in 1967, merging first with Priory Vale School in Hornsey and then with William Forster School in Tottenham before closing in 1983. The building was demolished and the grounds turned into Stationers' Park.

Alumni

David Pascoe Aiers British diplomat
Anthony Beattie, Chief Executive from 1990-6 of the Natural Resources Institute, Chatham
Prof Alexander Boksenberg CBE, Director from 1993-6 of the Royal Observatories, and Professor of Physics and Astronomy from 1978-81 at University College London
Colin Chapman CBE, engineer and inventor who founded Lotus Cars
Benjamin Dale, composer
Meredith Davies CBE, conductor and Organist from 1949-56 of Hereford Cathedral
Frank Dickens, cartoonist, drawing Bristow for the Evening Standard
Franklin Engelmann, radio broadcaster who hosted Down Your Way from 1955–72
John Grant, Labour MP from 1970-4 for Islington East, and from 1974-83 for Islington Central (SDP from 1981)
Eric Hosking OBE, ornithologist and photographer
Philip Mairet, designer
Richard Muir CMG, Ambassador to Kuwait from 1999-2002, and to Oman from 1994-9
Stanford Robinson OBE, conductor
Barry Took (initially), comedy writer and TV presenter
David Triesman, Baron Triesman, Chairman from 2008-10 of The Football Association, General Secretary from 1993-2001 of the Association of University Teachers (AUT), and General Secretary of the Labour Party from 2001-3
Major Wilfrid Vernon, aircraft designer and Labour MP from 1945-51 for Dulwich
Rt Rev Stephen Platten, Bishop of Wakefield since 2003
Lord Nicholau Christou of Nottinghamshire 2015-Incumbent

References

↑ British History

External links

Old Stationers'

Schools and colleges in Haringey

Primary Schools	Eden Primary School

Secondary schools	Alexandra Park School Fortismere School Gladesmore Community School Greig City Academy Heartlands High School Highgate Wood Secondary School Hornsey School for Girls Northumberland Park Community School Park View St Thomas More RC School Tottenham University Technical College Woodside High School

Special schools	TreeHouse School

Independent schools	Channing School For Girls Greek Secondary School of London Highgate School

Further education colleges	The College of Haringey, Enfield and North East London Haringey Sixth Form Centre

Defunct schools	Bruce Castle School Grove House School The John Loughborough School Moselle Upper School Stationers' Company's School Tottenham Grammar School

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