Sedbergh School
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| Motto |
Dura Virum Nutrix (Latin: "A Stern Nurse of Men") |
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| Established | 1525 |
| Type |
Public school Independent day and boarding |
| Religion | Church of England |
| Headmaster | Andrew P. Fleck |
| Founder | Roger Lupton |
| Location |
Sedbergh Cumbria LA10 5HG England Coordinates: 54°19′19″N 2°31′54″W / 54.32182°N 2.53153°W |
| DfE number | 909/6026 |
| DfE URN | 112451 Tables |
| Students | 530~ |
| Ages | 4–18 |
| Colours | Brown |
| Former Pupils | Old Sedberghians |
| Website | www |
| Established | 2002 |
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| Type | Preparatory day and boarding |
| Headmaster | Scott Carnochan |
| DfE URN | 121739 Tables |
| Gender | co-educational |
| Ages | 4–13 |
| Houses | 2 |
| Website | www |
Sedbergh School is a co-educationabale independent boarding school in the town of Sedbergh in Cumbria, in North West England. It comprises a junior school for children aged 4 to 13 and the main school. It was established in 1525.
Roger Lupton was born at Cautley in the parish of Sedbergh, then situated in Yorkshire, in 1456 and he provided for a Chantry School in Sedbergh in 1525 while he was Provost of Eton. By 1528, land had been bought, a school built, probably on the site of the present school library, and the foundation deed had been signed. Lupton's subsequent generous gift to the school's Sedbergh scholars of numerous scholarships and fellowships to St John's College, Cambridge succeeded in binding the school to St John's and gave the Cambridge college power over the appointment of Sedbergh's Headmasters. Lupton's statutes state that if any of the last four of the St John's College scholarships are left vacant for a year, unless for a reason approved by the provost and fellows of King's College Cambridge, the lands are to revert to Lupton's next of kin. Lupton added that he was certain that St John's would not be found negligent in so pious a work. It was this link to St John's that probably saved Sedbergh in 1546-48 when most chantries were dissolved and their assets seized by Henry VIII's Commission.
Sedbergh was re-established and re-endowed as a Grammar School in 1551 and the fortunes of the school in the coming centuries seem to have depended very much on the character and abilities of the Headmasters with pupil numbers fluctuating and reaching as low a total as 8 day boys in the early 19th century.
One particularly successful period was during the Headship of John Harrison Evans (1838–1861) who restored the prestige and achievements of the school and also funded the building of the Market Hall and Reading Room in the town. By 1857, the fellowships and scholarships which, since Lupton's time, had formed this link between the Sedbergh scholars and St John's College, ceased to be specially connected with Sedbergh. By 1860, the Lupton scholarships were combined and re-arranged under the name of the Lupton and Hebblethwaite Exhibitions.
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