Lincoln Christ's Hospital School

Grammar schools

LCHS was formed from the merger of two single-sex grammar schools, both of which had some boarders. From 1906 the boys' school, Lincoln School (probably dating back to 1090),^[3] also known as Lincoln Grammar School, occupied a site on Wragby Road. The girls' school, Christ's Hospital Girls' High School, was founded in 1893 and was based at Greestone Place on Lindum Hill. Before 1944, children whose education was not funded by the foundation had to pay school fees.

Lincoln School had many of the traditions of a public school. In 1914, after the beginning of the First World War, the school's buildings were commandeered for use as a hospital. Lincoln Cathedral choristers were educated at the school until 1944, when the school became a school maintained by public funds. In 1961 a new independent preparatory school for choristers, the Cathedral School for Boys, was established in the cathedral's former Deanery,^[4] and was renamed as Lincoln Minster School in 1996; it has since replaced the role that Lincoln School held before 1944.

On 22 July 1941 an RAF Handley Page Hampden crashed into the boarding house of the Girls' High School on Greestone Stairs,^[5][6] killing Miss Edith Catherine Fowle, a languages teacher, as well as the occupants of the aircraft. She had taught at the school for 21 years. By the 1960s the girls' school, a voluntary aided school, had around 550 girls, including 30 boarders.

Comprehensive

In September 1974 the City of Lincoln was the only part of the county in which Lincolnshire County Council decided to abolish selective education. As a result, the city's two grammar schools merged with two secondary modern schools founded in 1933, St Giles's Secondary Modern School for Boys on Swift Gardens and Myle Cross Secondary Modern School for Girls on Addison Drive, to become a new comprehensive school. The buildings of St Giles's are now a temporary primary school, and those of Myle Cross are the Chad Varah Primary School.

After the merger of 1974, school uniform policy was relaxed. However, in 2007 school blazers and ties were reintroduced.

The present-day school has had Language College status since 2001, and offers lessons in French, Spanish, German, Mandarin Chinese, Russian and most recently Latin.^[7]

Academy

Lincoln Christ's Hospital School became an academy in September 2011. It is now independent of local authority control, and funded directly from central government. However, the school continues to coordinate its admissions with Lincolnshire County Council.

Heads of Lincoln School

• 1852–1857: Revd George Foster Simpson, previously the first Rector of the High School of Montreal^[8]
• 1857–1875: Revd John Fowler
• 1911–1929: Reginald Moxon
• 1929–1937: Charles Edgar Young
• 1937–1957: George Franklin
• 1958–1962: Patrick Martin (later headmaster of Warwick School, 1962–77)
• 1962–1973: John Collins Faull (later headmaster of Tewkesbury School, 1972–?)
• 1973–1974: Arthur Behenna

Heads of Lincoln Christ's Hospital School

• 1974–1985: Arthur Behenna
• 1985–2004: David Cox
• 2005–2014: Andy Wright
• 2014–present: Martin Mckeown

Lincoln Grammar School

The Ninth of November 1888 by William Logsdail

• Colonel John Hutchinson (1615–1664) Parliamentarian leader
• Sir Francis Thornhagh (1617–1648), Parliamentarian soldier and MP: c. 1628–33
• John Disney (1677–1730), churchman, and great-grandfather of John Disney the archaeologist: c. 1689–94
• Peniston Booth, priest : c. 1692–99
• Thomas Pownall, Governor of Massachusetts in 1757–60: c. 1733–38
• John Sibthorp, botanist: c. 1770–75
• Henry Digby Beste, Christian scholar: 1776–84
• Richard Watson, Methodist minister: c. 1792–97
• John Taylor (English publisher): c. 1792–94
• Henry Whitehead Moss, scholar: c. 1852–54
• Evelyn Abbott, Greek scholar: c. 1854–59
• George Francis Carline (1855–1920), RBA artist: 1866–73
• William Henry Battle, surgeon, known for Battle's sign: c. 1866–70
• James Ward Usher (1845–1921), art jeweller and philanthropist
• William Logsdail, artist: c. 1870–75
• Robert Humphreys OBE, director of Institute of Latin American Studies, 1965–74, and President of the Royal Historical Society, 1964–68: 1908–15
• Basil Boothroyd, humorous writer with Punch: c. 1921–26
• Alex Henshaw, Spitfire chief test pilot: 1922–27
• Flt Lt Edward Johnson DFC, bomb aimer of AJ-N Lancaster of the Dambuster 617 Sqn squadron, who destroyed the Eder Dam: 1923–30
• Noel Duckworth, coxed the 1934–36 Cambridge crews to victory in the Boat Race, and the 1936 Berlin Olympics GB Eight: 1924–31
• David Cartwright, Bishop of Southampton, 1984–89: 1931–38
• Steve Race (1921–2009), Home Service/Radio 4 presenter of My Music: 1932–39
• Sir Neville Marriner (1924–2016) CH CBE, conductor: 1935–42
• Dr Dennis Townhill (1925–2008) OBE, organist: 1936–43
• Keith Fordyce, Light Programme/Radio 2 disc jockey and first presenter of Ready Steady Go!: 1940–47
• David Robinson, arts journalist for The Times: 1941–48
• Michael Marshall (born 1936), Bishop of Woolwich 1975–84: 1947–54
• Colin Semper (born 1938), head of Religious Programmes 1966–69 at BBC Radio: 1949–57
• Sir David Blatherwick OBE (born 1941), UK Ambassador to Ireland and Egypt: 1952–59
• Derek Fatchett (1945–1999), Labour MP 1983–99 for Leeds Central: 1956–63
• Peter Day (born 1947), Home Service/Radio 4 presenter of In Business: 1958–65
• Mark Byford (born 1958), BBC deputy director-general: 1969–76
• John Hurt (1940-2017), actor: c. 1952–57 (boarder)^[9]

Christ's Hospital Girls' High School

• Bridget Cracroft-Eley (née Clifton-Brown), Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire 1995–2008: 1940s
• Nancy Durrell (née Myers), first wife of Lawrence Durrell, and mother of Joanna Hines, the author and Guardian crime fiction reviewer
• Mary Mackie (née Whitlam), novelist and non-fiction writer: 1953–58^[10]