Haileybury and Imperial Service College

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Haileybury and Imperial Service College
Motto Fear God, Honour The King
Established 1862 (Haileybury College. Predecessor colleges were founded as follows:
East India Company College - 1805;
Imperial Service College - 1845;
United Services College - 1874)
Type Public School
Master Mr S A Westley M.A.
Chairman of Council Mr G W Staple
Founder East India Company
Location Hertford
Hertfordshire
EnglandFlag of England
Students 750 (approx.)
Gender Mixed
Ages 11 to 19
Houses 13
School colours Magenta

     
Publication The Haileyburian
Former pupils Old Haileyburians
Website www.haileybury.herts.sch.uk
Haileybury College
Haileybury College

Haileybury and Imperial Service College, (usually shortened to Haileybury & ISC or Haileybury), is an English private school founded in 1862. It is a co-educational boarding school enrolling pupils at 11+, 13+ and 16+. Over 750 pupils go to Haileybury, of which 452 live at Haileybury for either week nights or for an entire half term. The pupils who are aged 11-13, numbering around 100, study in a separate building with a boarding house just for the boys that reside at the school; the girls aged 11-13 who wish to board stay in one of the main school houses (Albans). The day girls in the main school (13+) go into Hailey House.

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The school is located at Hertford Heath, near Hertford, 20 miles from central London in rural countryside on a site occupied until 1858 by the East India Company College. Its architect, William Wilkins, later designed the National Gallery in London, and Downing College, Cambridge, which bear some similarities. The school is built around four ranges which enclose an area known as Quad, which is the largest academic quadrangle in the UK and one of the largest in the world.[citation needed]

The buildings reopened as Haileybury in 1862. The large dome which dominates the skyline was added as part of Arthur Blomfield's Chapel, completed in 1877. The dome was badly damaged by fire when only a year old and had to be extensively repaired. On 7 July 1932. Later Victorian buildings are by John William Simpson. The Memorial Dining Hall was opened by the future King George VI & Queen Elizabeth as a monument to former pupils who had died in the Great War. In the past 20 years it has been used to commemorate deaths in all conflict countries, typically the wreaths for these countries are placed by pupils from those countries. For a number of years this building was one of the largest unsupported domes in Europe and it has very interesting acoustics. Until the 1990s the entire school of over 700 pupils dined within this building at a single sitting for breakfast, lunch and supper all brought to a silence for the grace before and after each meal by a massive brass howitzer shell, captured from a German gun emplacement during World War I which had been converted into a gong. A gilded plaster boss in the centre of this dome represents an oak tree being struck by lightning. Known as Little Lightning Oak this decoration is a representation of Lightning Oak, the massive oak tree which stands on Terrace, the area of grass in front of the School and visible in this photograph. This tree was struck by lightning and all but destroyed but, miraculously, re-sprouted. The tree was seen as a metaphor for the school, decimated by war but growing back stronger. In 1942, Haileybury absorbed the Imperial Service College, which had already absorbed the United Services College.

As well as the Memorial Dining Hall, there are other impressive memorials to 1,436 alumni who perished in wars. The War Memorial on Terrace which originally commemorated those lost in World War I was unveiled by General Sir Alexander Godley, KCB, KCMG on 7 July 1923. This was designed by former pupil Sir Reginald Blomfield. Known as The Cross of Sacrifice this simple stone cross with a bronze sword applied was the prototype for a memorial that can now be found in every Commonwealth War Cemetery and has been used for many other war memorials around the world.

Seventeen former pupils of Haileybury and its antecedents have received the Victoria Cross, and three the George Cross.

In the late twentieth century, reforming headmaster David Jewell took charge of Haileybury. The current headmaster, Stewart Westley, is responsible for making the school fully co-educational.[1]

Today Haileybury is a co-educational school for 11-19 year-olds, with recent girls' boarding houses, (Colvin, Melvill, Allenby, Albans, and Hailey) and many facilities. There are still 7 boys boarding houses in the school, (Edmonstone, Lawrence, Bartle Frere, Kipling, Batten, Thomason and Trevelyan) and a house for day pupils, Russell Dore. The Ayckbourn Theatre is a fully functional modern theatre. The college chapel organ was built by Klais in 1997, with two manuals and thirty stops. There is a modern sports centre and a synthetic running track. Haileybury has a rackets court, built in 1908, which is unusual in having a double gallery. During World War II, it was damaged by the blast from a V-2 Rakete (sic) and was not restored until 1952 due to the school being evacuated from bombing risks. The school supports a professional coach (Mr Cawdron) making it one of the 12 schools in England to have a racket court and coach.

Groups originating from Haileybury support a number of charities such as The Children's Trust in Tadworth, the Home Farm Trust and the Boys' Club in Stepney once managed by Old Haileyburian Clement Attlee and Changing faces - a charity designed to help tortured and disfigured victims come to terms with their affliction. Attlee was noted for his promotion of fellow Old Haileyburians.

The school was featured in the TV drama "A Class apart".

Haileybury is attached to a junior school, Lambrook Haileybury, at Winkfield Row, near Bracknell, where it moved in 1998 from Windsor.

Recently (2006/2007) Haileybury has been advising the building of a Haileybury in Almaty, Kazakhstan where all English GCSE's will be taught and the curriculum will be taught similarly under the guidance of Haileybury, which is to be known as Haileybury Almaty. The students will be made up mostly of Kazakhstan Citizens and sons of embassy workers. They will all be required to speak English.[2]

Haileybury also hosts the annual "Haileybury Model United Nations" Conference, in which many schools, such as Bancroft's School, plus schools from many countries including Greece, Sweden, participate

The School lent its name to the twentyfifth steam locomotive (Engine 924) in the Southern Railway's Class V of which there were 40. This Class was also known as the Schools Class because all 40 of the class were named after prominent English public schools. 'Haileybury', as it was called, was built in 1934.The locomotive bearing the School's name was withdrawn in the early 1960s.

Past pupils are known as Old Haileyburians.


Seventeen former pupils of Haileybury and its antecedents have received the Victoria Cross, and three the George Cross. One master also received the Victoria Cross.[3]


  1. ^ The Times, Obituaries, July 2006
  2. ^ "UK public school for Kazakhstan", BBC, 25 January 2007. Retrieved on 2007-09-12. 
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t Haileybury College Archives - Roll of Honour
  4. ^ Frederick Charles Danvers, (1894), Memorials of Old Haileybury College, page 455, (A. Constable and Company)
  5. ^ Frederick Charles Danvers, (1894), Memorials of Old Haileybury College, page 453, (A. Constable and Company)
  6. ^ Frederick Charles Danvers, (1894), Memorials of Old Haileybury College, page 607, (A. Constable and Company)
  7. ^ Frederick Charles Danvers, (1894), Memorials of Old Haileybury College, page 448, (A. Constable and Company)
  8. ^ Sir David Hughes Parry, (2005), The V. C. Its Heroes And Their Valor, page 251, (Kessinger Publishing)
  9. ^ Francis Aylmer Maxwell, (1921), Frank Maxwell: A Memoir and Some Letters, page 9, (J. Murray)

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