Royds Hall School

Royds Hall Community School is a mixed all-through school for pupils aged 4 – 16. It is located in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England, and on the north side of the Colne Valley towards Milnsbridge.

Royds Hall Community School
The school in 2005
Address
Luck Lane

Huddersfield
,
West Yorkshire
,
HD3 4HA

England
Coordinates53°38′43″N 1°49′03″W
Information
TypeCommunity school
MottoAspire Learn Achieve
Established1921
Local authorityKirklees
Department for Education URN107755 Tables
OfstedReports
LeadershipMr John McNally (Executive Headteacher), Mrs Jenny Carr (Secondary Headteacher), Ms Louise McArdle (Executive Head Primary)
GenderMixed
Age4 to 16
Enrolment877
Colour(s)Green & Yellow
Websitehttps://www.roydshall.org

History

Royds Hall was a large farmhouse in the Paddock and Longwood area of Huddersfield, adjoining Royds Wood. It was rebuilt as a grander mansion (still called Royds Hall, but also known as 'Royds Wood'. It was still referred to on the town plan published in 1890 as Royds Hall), whose philanthropic mill owner served the increasingly industrialised and expanding town. The building was formerly Royds Hall Mansion, built in 1866 by Sir Joseph Crosland, the Conservative MP for the Huddersfield constituency from 1893–95. On his death in 1904 he left the property to his nephew Thomas Pearson Crosland,[1] who sold it to Huddersfield Corporation in 1915 for £17,000. The Hall served as a military hospital during and after the First World War.[2]

Royds Hall Grammar School opened on 20 September 1921,[3][4] which became a comprehensive school in 1963.[3] In February 2014, the later Royds Hall High School changed its name to Royds Hall Community School.

Notable alumni

Royds Hall Community School

Royds Hall Grammar School
  • Robert Baldick FRSL, French literature scholar
  • J Margaret Evans (nee Hadfield), 1927-35 Head Girl, Junior Bursar 1965-1970 and Founding Fellow, Emeritus Fellow from 1985 until death in 2001 Lucy Cavendish College Cambridge[5]
  • Jane Garside CBE, Chief Commissioner of The Girl Guide Association from 1990–95
  • Sir Richard Sykes FRS, biochemist, Chief Executive of Glaxo plc from 1993–97, Rector of Imperial College London from 2001–08, and Chancellor since 2013 of Brunel University London
  • Derek Whitwam, General Manager from 1981-84 of Portsmouth Dockyard (now HMNB Portsmouth), and Chief Executive from 1984-85 of Royal Dockyards
  • Lloyd Wilkinson, General Secretary from 1975–99 for the Co-operative Union
  • Harold Wilson, Labour Party leader from 1963 to 1976; UK prime minister from 1964 to 1970, and from 1974 to 1976
  • David Woodhall CBE, Chief Executive from 1982–92 of the Commission for New Towns
  • David Anthony (Tony) Leonard, QPM, PhD, Bsc(Econ), 1950 - 1957. Chief Constable Humberside Police from 1991 to 1999.

References
  1. England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966
  2. "History of Royds Hall School". Yorkshire Live. 11 July 2013. Retrieved 12 March 2020.
  3. "Royds Hall School History"
  4. Eye on Education: Royds Hall High School and Specialist Science College
  5. "Papers of J Margaret Evans", Archives Hub. Retrieved 5 December 2018
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