SEDBERGH PREP - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- England Women 's Rugby Captain
Andrew Ratcliffe, (1962 - 65), Andrew Ratcliffe is a figurative painter, predominantly concerned with painting and drawing the figure from life. He has exhibited extensively in Britain and abroad including the National Portrait Gallery and has been a John Moores prizewinner. The first commissioned work he did was of the Prince of Wales, and he has done several more of him over the years.
Job Titles:
- Professor of Medicine at London 's Royal Postgraduate Medical School
Professor Sir Christopher Booth, (1937 - 42) , starting as a researcher in digestive diseases, Chris Booth became an influential professor of medicine at London's Royal Postgraduate Medical School, and then director of the Clinical Research Centre at Northwick Park Hospital.
Job Titles:
- Housemaster
- Sedbergh As Head
Rupert joined Sedbergh as Head of History in September 2017. Prior to his arrival at Sedbergh, he spent 5 years teaching History and Politics at Charterhouse.
Powell House was developed from what had been the Masters' Hostel which was built in 1893 to house bachelor masters to save them having to find lodgings in the town. During the First World War pupil numbers grew to such an extent that the provision of a new House had to be planned and so the Masters' Hostel was converted and extended into what we now know as Powell House, occupied by boys for the first time in 1916. It is named after one of Sedbergh's famous Old Boys and one of its greatest benefactors, Sir Francis Sharp Powell whose generosity paid for the many of the Schools buildings. His portrait hangs in Powell Hall, which is also named after him. To begin with Powell could not field teams of its own so joined with the other new house, Winder, to form a team known as the "United Houses".
The first Housemaster was Mr WF Henning. The Sedberghian for June 1916 records "The Hostel is no more … from its ruins arise our seventh House, called Powell. There under the aegis of Mr Henning with a small leaven of seniors, some dozen newcomers are finding life a very pleasant affair."
The Rt. Hon. Sir Richard McCombe (Lord Justice McCombe) (1966 - 70)