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Lockers Park School

Lockers Park School is a day and boarding preparatory and pre-preparatory school for boys, situated in 23 acres of countryside in Boxmoor, Hertfordshire. Its headmaster is Gavin Taylor.

History

Lockers Park was founded in 1872 by Henry Montagu Draper, an old boy of Rugby School. It moved to purpose-built buildings and sports fields in 1874 in 23 acres (93,000 m²) of the parkland which surrounds a Georgian country house called Lockers or The Lockers, which was once the home of Ebenezer John Collett. The new school was designed by Sidney Scott and has its own chapel which dates from the same era.

In the 1940s and 1950s, the veteran England all-round cricketer Frank Woolley (1887–1978) was the school's cricket coach.

Former pupils

See also Category: People educated at Lockers Park School

The list of distinguished (or well-known) old boys of Lockers Park includes the following:

Alastair Aird (1931–2009), Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother's private secretary
Prince Alemayehu, (1861–1879) son of the emperor of Ethiopia
Timothy Bateson (1926–2009), actor
Prince Maurice of Battenberg, a member of the Hesse aristocracy
Roy Beddington, artist
Anthony Berry British Conservative politician.
Guy Burgess, (1911–1963) MI6 agent and Soviet spy
John Dermot Campbell (1898–1945), Ulster Unionist politician
Martin Cecil, 7th Marquess of Exeter Anglo-Canadian peer
Paul Channon, Baron Kelvedon (1935–2007), Conservative politician
Martin Charteris, Baron Charteris of Amisfield (1913–1999), queen Elizabeth II's private secretary, provost Of Eton College.
James Dunbar-Nasmith (1927–2023), architect
William Ehrman British diplomat and former chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee.
Stuart Hampshire philosopher
Basil Henriques (1890–1961), philanthropist
Robert Henriques (1905–1967), writer and broadcaster
Stanley Jackson, cricket captain of England, politician
Edward James (1907–1984), poet
Keith Joseph, Conservative politician
Clive Loehnis, Director of GCHQ
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, captain of the Indian cricket team
Saif Ali Khan, Indian film actor and titular Nawab of Pataudi
Robert Laycock, major-general, commando general during the Second World War
Guy Mansfield, 6th Baron Sandhurst, British barrister, hereditary peer and Conservative member of the House of Lords.
Edwin Mayfield, British Lions rugby union forward
Nathaniel Micklem, British Liberal Party politician and lawyer
James Lees-Milne, architectural historian
Tom Mitford, brother of the Mitford Sisters
Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, last Viceroy of India
Edmund Leopold de Rothschild (1916–2009), banker and horticulturalist
Leopold David de Rothschild (1927–2012), banker, musician and philanthropist
James Stevenson-Hamilton, first warden of Kruger National Park
Basil Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 4th Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (1909–1945), Conservative politician
Bryan Valentine, cricket captain of Kent
Peter Watson (1908–1956), patron of the arts
Hugo Williams, poet, journalist and travel writer