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Cothill House, Cothill
Location
Map
Cothill
,
Oxfordshire
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OX13 6JL

England
Information
TypePrivate day and boarding school
Preparatory School
MottoDum spiro spero ("While I breathe, I hope")
Religious affiliation(s)Church of England
Established1860 (moved to present location in 1870)
Head MasterGeorge May[1]
GenderBoys
Age8 to 13
Enrolment204
PublicationThe Cothill Magazine
Former pupilsOld Cothillians
Websitehttp://www.cothill.net/

Cothill House is a day and boarding boys' independent school for preparatory pupils in Cothill, Oxfordshire, which houses around 220 boys from the ages 8–13.

General information

The school offers day and boarding places for around 220 pupils. Facilities include a CDT centre, golf course, BMX track, swimming pool (covered), theatre, six hard tennis courts, 20 music practice rooms, 2 drum rooms, squash court, library, science labs, a computer room and two teaching blocks. A new state of the art Sports Centre is currently being constructed, due to be completed by the summer of 2023. The headmaster's house is attached to the main school.

The school is operated by the Prep Schools Trust, a charity registered in England,[2] which also runs the nearby Chandlings School, Kitebrook Preparatory School, Mowden Hall in Northumberland, and Barfield School in Surrey.

Boarding

Cothill House is a full boarding school, meaning pupils go home only for organised weekends, exeats, half-terms and end-of-terms. Day places are offered for Cothill Juniors in Years 4 and 5. Prince William and his brother Prince Harry were registered to attend Cothill, which was the choice of their father Charles, Prince of Wales,[3] but in the end they both attended a rival establishment, Ludgrove, instead.

Notable Old Cothillians

History

The school was founded in 1860 (in Dry Sandford), before moving to its present location in 1870.

References

  1. ^ "Cothill House". Get Information about Schools. Retrieved 11 November 2023.
  2. ^ "Prep Schools Trust, registered charity no. 309639". Charity Commission for England and Wales.
  3. ^ The Ladies' Home Journal, vol. 106 (1989), p. 171
  4. ^ Dhananajaya Singh, The House of Marwar (Lotus Collection, Roli Books, 1994), p. 204
  5. ^ George Edward Cokayne, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom: extant, extinct, or dormant, vol. 13 (The St Catherine Press Ltd, 1940), p. 408
  6. ^ 'General Sir Hugh Stockwell' in Patricia Burgess & Trish Burgess, eds., The Annual Obituary 1986 (Chicago & London: St James Press, 1989), p. 677
  7. ^ 'MACNAB of Macnab, James Charles', in Who's Who 2012 (London: A. & C. Black, 2012)
  8. ^ 'Aberdeen and Temair, 7th Marquess of' in Who's Who 2012 (London: A. & C. Black, 2011

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