Emanuel School
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| Motto |
Pour Bien Desirer (French: The Noble Aim) |
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| Established | 1594 |
| Type | Public school (Emanuel school) |
| Religion | Christianity |
| Headmaster | M. D. Hanley-Browne, MA |
| Chair of Governors | F. R. Abbott Esq |
| Founder | Lady Dacre, Elizabeth I |
| Location |
Battersea Rise London SW11 1HS England |
| Local authority | Wandsworth |
| DfE number | 212/6292 |
| Students | 775 (2014) |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Ages | 10–18 |
| Houses | Clyde, Drake, Howe, Lyons, Marlborough, Nelson, Rodney, Wellington |
| Colours |
Navy blue and gold |
| Publication | The Portcullis |
| Former pupils | Old Emanuels (OEs) |
| Website | emanuel |
Navy blue and gold
Emanuel School is a co-educational public school in Battersea, south-west London. The school was founded in 1594 by Anne Sackville, Lady Dacre and Queen Elizabeth I and occupies a 12-acre site near to Clapham Junction railway station.
The school is part of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference and at the start of the 2014–15 academic year had 760 pupils between the ages of ten and eighteen, paying fees of £16,404 per year. It teaches the GCSE and A-Level syllabuses.
Emanuel School is one of five schools administered by the United Westminster Schools' Foundation. It came into being by the will of Anne, Lady Dacre, dated 1594. She was the daughter of Sir Richard Sackville by his wife Winifred, a daughter of Sir John Bruges (otherwise Brydges), Lord Mayor of London in 1520-21. Her brother was Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset. She married Gregory Fiennes of Herstmonceaux and Chelsea, 10th Baron Dacre, in November 1558. He died on 25 September 1594 and she followed him, dying on 14 May (buried 15 May) 1595.
Her epitaph states:
Lady Dacre wrote that one of the main aims of the Foundation should be "for the bringing up of children in virtue and good and laudable arts so that they might better live in time to come by their honest labour." With Lady Dacre's benefaction in 1594, Emanuel Hospital (almshouses and school), as it was first called, began. The children wore long brown tunics, rather similar in cut to those still worn by pupils at Christ's Hospital. Thanks to the interest of Queen Elizabeth I, cousin to Lady Dacre, a charter was drawn up, and the school and almshouses were established on a site at Tothill Fields, Westminster. Mention is made of the Hospital and similar foundations in an undated letter written by Daniel Defoe, entitled A Scheme for a Royal Palace in the Place of White-Hall.
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