Blundell's School
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| Motto |
Pro Patria Populoque (For the country and the people) |
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| Established | 1604 |
| Type | Independent day and boarding school |
| Head | Nicola Huggett |
| Chairman of the Governors | C. M. Clapp |
| Founder | Peter Blundell |
| Location |
Blundells Road Tiverton Devon EX16 4DN England Coordinates: 50°54′23″N 3°27′58″W / 50.906499°N 3.466174°W |
| DfE URN | 113575 Tables |
| Staff | 66 |
| Students | 550 (senior school approx.) /300 (preparatory school approx.) |
| Gender | Co-educational |
| Ages | 2½–18 |
| Houses |
Francis (Boys) |
| Colours | red & white |
| Former pupils | Old Blundellians |
| Website | www |
Francis (Boys)
Gorton (Girls)
North Close (Girls)
Old house (Boys)
Petergate (Boys)
School (Years 7 and 8)
Blundell's School is a co-educational day and boarding independent school located in the town of Tiverton in the county of Devon, England. It was founded in 1604 under the will of Peter Blundell, one of the richest men in England at the time, and moved to its present site on the outskirts of the town in May 1882. It was known until the 19th century as Tiverton Grammar School.
While the full boarding fees are £31,755 per year, the school offers several scholarships and bursaries, and provides flexi-boarding. The school has 350 boys and 225 girls, including 107 boys and 65 girls in the Sixth Form, and is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference.
The Good Schools Guide calls Blundell's a "distinguished rural school of ancient lineage."
Peter Blundell, one of the wealthiest merchants of Elizabethan England, died in 1601 having made his fortune principally in the cloth industry. His will set aside considerable money and land to establish a school in his home town "to maintain sound learning and true religion". Blundell asked his friend John Popham, Lord Chief Justice of England, to carry out his wishes, and appointed a number of local merchants and gentry as his first trustees (known as feoffees). The position of feoffee is no longer hereditary, but a number of notable local families have held the position for a considerable period: the first ancestor of the current Chairman of the Governors to hold that position was elected more than 250 years ago, and the Heathcoat-Amory family have a long tradition of service on the Governing Body, since Sir John Heathcoat-Amory was appointed in 1865.
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