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((Use dmy dates|date=September 2019))
((Use British English|date=February 2023))
((Infobox school
 | name                    = Kingston Grammar School
 | image                   = Kingston Grammar School.svg
 | image_size              = 150px
 | motto                   = ''Bene Agere ac Lætari''<br>("Work well and be happy")<ref>Official translation as seen on the school website</ref>
 | established             = c. 12th century<br />1561 ([[royal charter#United Kingdom|royal charter]] granted)
 | type                    = [[Private schools in the United Kingdom|Private]] [[day school]]<br/>[[Grammar school]]
 | head_label              = Head Master
 | head                    = Stephen Lehec
 | address                 = London Rd
 | city                    = [[Kingston upon Thames]]
 | county                  = 
 | country                 = England
 | postcode                = KT2 6PY
 | local_authority         = [[Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames|Kingston upon Thames]]
 | dfeno                   = 314/6067
 | urn                     = 
 | ofsted                  = 
 | staff                   = 
 | enrolment               = 837 (2018/19)
 | gender                  = Coeducational
 | lower_age               = 11
 | upper_age               = 18
 | houses                  = ((color box|#8800bc)) Lovekyn <br />((color box|#1189ff)) Queen's <br />((color box|#c3c3c3)) Stanley <br />((color box|#a94300)) Taverner <br />((color box|#00cf0d)) Walworth
 | colours                 = Red and Grey ((color box|#ff0000))((color box|#9a9a9a))
 | publication             = ''The Kingstonian''
 | free_label_1            = Former pupils
 | free_1                  = Old Kingstonians
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 | website                 = ((url|http://www.kgs.org.uk))
))

'''Kingston Grammar School''' is an [[Independent school|independent]] co-educational day school in [[Kingston upon Thames]], [[England]]. The school was founded by [[royal charter]] in 1561 but can trace its roots back to at least the 13th century.<ref name="hist">[http://kingstongrammar.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=171&Itemid=203 History] ((webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160313060541/http://kingstongrammar.com/index.php?id=171&itemid=203&option=com_content&task=view |date=2016-03-13 ))</ref> It is a [[Charitable organization|registered charity]] under English law.<ref>((EW charity|1078461))</ref> It was a boys' school from its foundation until 1978, when the first girls were admitted.

In 2018 the [[General Certificate of Secondary Education|GCSE]] results recorded 85% of grades were A*/A or 9–7, and at A-level 62.7% of all grades were A or A*.<ref>[http://www.kgs.org.uk School website]</ref> In 2008 the ''[[Good Schools Guide]]'' described the school as "An academic school with a modern edge".<ref>[http://goodschoolsguide.co.uk/school/kingston-grammar-school.html Good Schools Guide] ((webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081020062047/http://goodschoolsguide.co.uk/school/kingston-grammar-school.html |date=October 20, 2008 ))</ref>

==History==
[[File:The Lovekyn Chapel, Kingston - geograph.org.uk - 1273936.jpg|alt=the Lovekyn Chapel|thumb|Lovekyn Chapel]]
The school's history is traceable into the [[Middle Ages]], where there are references to schoolmasters like Gilbert de Southwell in 1272, described as "Rector of the Schools in Kingston", and to Hugh de Kyngeston in 1364 "who presides over the Public School there". Notable in the school's history are the founding and endowing of the Lovekyn Chapel by [[John Lovekyn|John]] and then Edward Lovekyn in 1309-1352 and later by [[William Walworth]] in 1371. The chapel is still used by the school.<ref>[http://kingstongrammar.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=171&Itemid=203&limit=1&limitstart=1 Lovekyn Chapel] ((webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160313131548/http://kingstongrammar.com/index.php?id=171&itemid=203&limit=1&limitstart=1&option=com_content&task=view |date=2016-03-13 ))</ref>

After the dissolution of the chantries in 1547, the chapel fell to the [[The Crown|Crown]] and was deconsecrated. It, and by now its substantial related endowments, fell to a court favourite, [[Richard Taverner]]. He preserved the chapel so when in 1561 the bailiffs of Kingston petitioned [[Elizabeth I of England|Queen Elizabeth I]] for a royal grammar school, the building was still usable. The Queen granted the school a [[royal charter]] in 1561.<ref name="hist"/>

The school became a [[direct grant grammar school]] in 1946<ref>((cite hansard | url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/written-answers/1946/may/31/grammar-schools-direct-grant-status | title=Grammar Schools (Direct Grant Status) |house=House of Commons | date=31 May 1946 | column_start=234W | column_end=234W ))</ref> as a result of the [[Education Act 1944]] and became independent in 1978 after the scheme was abolished by the [[Labour Government 1974–1979|1974–79 Labour Government]].<ref>((cite hansard | url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/written-answers/1978/mar/22/direct-grant-schools |title=Direct Grant Schools |house=[[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|House of Commons]] | date=22 March 1978 | column_start=545 | column_end=545 ))</ref> In the same year, the first girls were admitted.

KGS celebrated the four hundredth anniversary of its founding charter in 1961 with a visit from [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Queen Elizabeth II]]. In 2005 she opened the new Queen Elizabeth II Building, where she unveiled a plaque, met with students of Music and Geography and watched an excerpt of the play "Smike" after which the new Recording Studio was named.

On 1 May 1965 the school opened its new playing fields at Thames Ditton, alongside which was built its boathouse, donated by [[R. C. Sherriff|R.C Sherriff]]. Prior to this it had shared [[Kingston Rowing Club|Kingston Rowing Club's]] boathouse, and had owned much smaller playing fields at Ditton Road, Kingston.<ref>[https://sport.kgs.org.uk/SportHistory.asp?Id=3732 Sport history]((webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180709150508/https://sport.kgs.org.uk/SportHistory.asp?Id=3732|date=2018-07-09)) and ((cite book|title=Chantry Chapel to Royal Grammar School, The History of Kingston Grammar School 1299-1999|publisher=Gresham Books|publication-date=2000|last1=Ward|first1=David|last2=Evans|first2=Gordon|pages=110, 185))</ref>

==Houses==
There are five [[House system|houses]], named after [[Medieval]] and [[Elizabethan]] figures connected with the school and the city of London, with the exception of [[Stanley Shoveller]], an Old Kingstonian who played international hockey in the early 20th century.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! House !! Named after !! Symbol !! Colour(s) !! Founded
|-
| Lovekyn || [[John Lovekyn|John]] and Edward Lovekyn, benefactors || Eagle || ((color box|#8800bc)) || 1914
|-
| Queen's || [[Elizabeth I of England|Queen Elizabeth I]] || Crown || ((color box|#1189ff)) || 1914
|-
| Walworth || [[William Walworth]], former [[Lord Mayor of London]] || Tiger || ((color box|#00cf0d)) || 1914
|-
| Taverner || [[Richard Taverner]], Bible translator || Bear || ((color box|#a94300)) || 1921
|-
| Stanley || [[Stanley Shoveller]], Old Kingstonian and Olympic hockey gold medalist || Stag || ((color box|#c3c3c3)) || 2016
|}
<ref>[http://kingstongrammar.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=171&Itemid=203&limit=1&limitstart=3 Houses] ((webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160311105551/http://kingstongrammar.com/index.php?id=171&itemid=203&limit=1&limitstart=3&option=com_content&task=view |date=2016-03-11 ))</ref>

==Extracurricular activities==
The school has a sporting programme, with the main sports being football, netball, tennis, hockey, rowing and cricket.

Hockey, rowing and cricket are the school's performance sports with hockey and rowing having  achieved successes at national level, including three national hockey titles in 2019.((Citation needed|date=September 2022))

The '[[R. C. Sherriff|R.C. Sherriff]]' rowing boathouse is on the Thames at [[Thames Ditton]], [[Surrey]].<ref>[http://kingstongrammar.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=156&Itemid=185 Rowing] ((webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160313075525/http://kingstongrammar.com/index.php?id=156&itemid=185&option=com_content&task=view |date=2016-03-13 ))</ref> Students may take up rowing beginning in Third Form (Year 9) and participate in local and national regattas, including [[The National Schools Regatta]] and [[Henley Royal Regatta]].<ref>((cite web|title=Kingston Grammar School BC|url=http://www.britishrowing.org/clubs/kingston-grammar-school-bc|publisher=[[British Rowing|britishrowing.org]]))</ref>

The school has produced professional and international athletes, most commonly in hockey and rowing but also more recently in football and cricket.

==Notable former pupils==
((unreferenced section|date=September 2022))
((see also|Category:People educated at Kingston Grammar School))
* [[Alexander McLean (activist)|Alexander McLean]] &mdash; activist, humanitarian, and lawyer, founder of Justice Defenders which seeks to improve the lives of people imprisoned in Africa.
* [[Christopher Bryan]] &mdash; international football player, Turks and Caicos
* [[Paul Butler (bishop)]] &mdash; [[Bishop of Durham]]
* [[William Gilbert Chaloner]]  &mdash; paleobiologist, Royal Holloway
* [[Richard Cheetham]] &mdash; Bishop of Kingston upon Thames
* [[James Cracknell]] &mdash; 2000 and 2004 Olympic rowing gold medallist, adventurer
* [[Philip Crosland]] &mdash; journalist
* [[Richard Dodds]] &mdash; International hockey player: Captain of the Great Britain Olympic 1988 gold medal hockey team
* [[Ian Dyson]] &mdash; Commissioner of the City of London Police
* [[Michael Edwards (literary scholar)|Michael Edwards]] &mdash; poet & academic, first Briton elected to the [[Académie Française]]
* [[Brett Garrard]] &mdash; international hockey player
* [[Sarah Haycroft|Sarah Evans]] &mdash; international hockey player
* [[Neil Fox (broadcaster)|Neil Fox]] &mdash; DJ and television presenter
* [[Michael Frayn]] &mdash; playwright and novelist
* [[Edward Gibbon]] &mdash; author, ''[[The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire]]''
* Air Marshal [[Gerald Gibbs (RAF officer)|Sir Gerald Gibbs]] &mdash; RAF officer
* [[Tanya Gold]] &mdash; ''[[The Guardian]]'' journalist
* [[Sophie Hosking]] &mdash; 2012 Olympic Rowing gold medallist
* [[Jonathan Kenworthy]] &mdash; sculptor
* [[Francis Maseres]] &mdash; lawyer, mathematician, Attorney-General of Quebec
* [[Leif Mills]] &mdash; author and former trade unionist
* [[Neil Mullarkey]] &mdash; actor, writer and comedian
* [[Jonathon Riley (British Army officer)|Jonathon Riley]] &mdash; Director General and Master of the Armouries
* [[R. C. Sherriff]] &mdash; playwright, who donated five rowing [[Eight (rowing)|eight]]s (named after his plays: "Journey's End", "White Carnation", "Home at Seven", "Long Sunset" and "Badger's Green") to the school boat club in the 1960s and 1970s
* [[John Spiers (entrepreneur)]] &mdash; entrepreneur 
* [[Denis Spotswood|Sir Denis Spotswood]] &mdash; [[Chief of the Air Staff (United Kingdom)|Chief of the Air Staff]], 1971-1974
* [[Howard Stoate]] &mdash; formerly MP for Dartford
* [[Zachary Wallace]] &mdash; international hockey player

==References==
((Reflist))

==Sources==
*Ward, The Rev David; Evans, Gordon W. (2000). ''Chantry Chapel to Royal Grammar School: the History of Kingston Grammar School 1299–1999''. Gresham Books. ((ISBN|978-0946095360))

==External links==
*((Official website|http://www.kgs.org.uk/))
*[https://www.isc.co.uk/schools/england/surrey/kingston-upon-thames/kingston-grammar-school/ Profile] on the [[Independent Schools Council]] website
*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/education/04/school_tables/secondary_schools/html/314_6067.stm BBC school report]

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