Bootham School

Bootham School is a private Quaker boarding school, on Bootham in the city of York in England. It accepts boys and girls ages 3–19 and had an enrolment of 605 pupils in 2016.^[2] It is one of seven Quaker schools in England.

Rear view of the school

Bootham School
Bootham School, Bootham, York. The main building was originally built in 1804 for Sir Richard Vanden Bempde Johnstone.
Address
Bootham York , North Yorkshire , YO30 7BU England
Information
Type	Private school
Motto	Membra sumus corporis magni (We are members of a greater body)
Religious affiliation(s)	Religious Society of Friends (Quaker)
Established	6 January 1823; 202 years ago (1823-01-06)
Founder	Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
Department for Education URN	121722 Tables
Headmaster	Deneal Smith[1]
Deputy Head	James Ratcliffe
Gender	Mixed
Age	3 to 19
Enrolment	605 as of January 2016[update]
Houses	Firbank Pendle Brigflatts Swarthmore
Publication	Bootham Magazine
Boarding Houses	Rowntree Fox Evelyn
Former Pupils	Bootham Old Scholars Association
Website	www.boothamschool.com

The school was founded by the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) and opened on 6 January 1823 in Lawrence Street, York. Its first headmaster was William Simpson (1823–1828). He was followed by John Ford (1828–c. 1865). The school is now on Bootham, near York Minster. It is based in 51 Bootham, a building originally built in 1804 for Sir Richard Vanden Bempde Johnstone, but has expanded into several neighbouring buildings.

The school's motto Membra Sumus Corporis Magni means "We are members of a greater body", quoting Seneca the Younger (Epistle 95, 52).

Academics

Bootham was ranked at 43rd in the 2011 Independent Schools A-Levels League Tables.^[3]

Notable alumni

Notable former pupils include the 19th-century parliamentary leader John Bright, the mathematician Lewis Fry Richardson ("father of fractals"), the physicist and electrical engineer Silvanus P. Thompson, the historian A. J. P. Taylor, the actor-manager Brian Rix, the applied linguist Stephen Pit Corder, the child psychiatrist Sir Michael Rutter, the social reformer Seebohm Rowntree, the 1959 Nobel Peace Prize winner Philip Noel-Baker, Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood, singer-songwriter Benjamin Francis Leftwich, the chief executive of Marks & Spencer Stuart Rose^[4] and Jon Ingle, better known as drag artist Lady Bunny.^[5]

See also

See also: Category:People educated at Bootham School

• List of Friends Schools

References

1. "Bootham School York: Deneal Smith appointed new head teacher". York Press. 29 June 2022. Retrieved 14 September 2023.
2. "Bootham School". EduBase. Department for Education. Archived from the original on 19 February 2017. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
3. "The Top 100 Independent Schools at A-level". The Independent. 26 January 2012. Retrieved 2 February 2012.
4. "Desert Island Discs with Stuart Rose as participant". Desert Island Discs. 22 November 2009. BBC. Radio 4.
5. "Lady Bunny on Disco, Drag & Demagogues". 7 June 2019. Retrieved 11 July 2022.

Further reading

• Bootham School Register. Compiled under the direction of a committee of O.Y.S.A., 1914, with revised eds. 1935, 1971, 2010.
• J. S. Rowntree, Friends' Boys' School, York a Sketch of its History 1829–1878 (1879)
• F. E. Pollard Bootham School 1823–1923 (JM Dent and Sons, 1926)
• S. K. Brown Bootham School York 1823–1973 (author, 1973)

External links

• Official website

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