Liverpool College
| Motto |
Latin: Non Solum Ingenii Verum Etiam Virtutis ("'Not Only the Intellect but also the Character'") |
|---|---|
| Established | 1840 |
| Type |
Academy (formerly independent) Day and boarding |
| Religion | Church of England |
| Principal | Hans van Mourik Broekman |
| Location |
Queen's Drive Liverpool Merseyside L18 8BG England Coordinates: 53°22′55″N 2°55′19″W / 53.382°N 2.922°W |
| Local authority | Liverpool |
| DfE number | 341/6000 |
| DfE URN | 139686 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Gender | Mixed |
| Ages | 3–19 |
| Former pupils | Old Lerpoolians |
| Website | www |
Liverpool College is a mixed all-through school located in Mossley Hill, a suburb of Liverpool, England. It was one of the 13 founding members of the Headmasters' Conference (as it then was).
Liverpool College was the first of many public schools founded in the Victorian Era. The foundation stone of the original building was laid on 22 October 1840 by Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby K.G. (then styled the Rt. Hon. Lord Stanley MP), the first patron of the College. A group of Christian Liverpool citizens, many of whose names are now famous in the annals of the city, then began the building of a school where education might be combined with ‘sound religious knowledge’. The original building in Shaw street (now apartments) is in the so-called Tudor-Gothic style. It was designed by Mr. Harvey Lonsdale Elmes, and was erected at a cost of £35,000.
The College was opened on 6 January 1843 by the Right Hon. William Ewart Gladstone (afterwards four time Prime Minister of the United Kingdom) and the same distinguished son of Liverpool showed his interest in the College by delivering a second great speech in the hall on founders’ day in 1857. The College consisted of 3 institutions – Upper, Middle and Lower Schools. While these schools were under the control of one and the same Principal, they were kept entirely separate. The Lower, or Commercial School, was intended for boys who were to go into business houses at an early age. The Middle School combined literary and scientific training, with special attention to modern languages for boys leaving for business or the professions. The Upper School was a first grade public school with leaving exhibitions for Oxford and Cambridge. Though the schools were distinct in theory and fact, the foundation was unique, in that the Principal was empowered to nominate a certain number of promising boys for entrance to a higher school on the terms of the lower.
The Liverpool College for Girls at Grove Street was established in 1856. The Liverpool College for Girls, Huyton, or Huyton College as it was popularly known, was started in 1894 and intended to be parallel to the Boys Upper School. The Liverpool College Preparatory School at Fairfield was also founded in 1898. The Council of Liverpool College was therefore one of the most important governing bodies in the kingdom, with 6 schools under its control.
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