Follow the crowd to the OS website!

2023 saw a record breaking 70,430 visits to the OS website  – that’s 21,860 more visits than the previous year! The Top Ten OS webpages visited in 2023 were: Christopher Morcom (1911-1930) – 4,387 views Welcome to the OSS website (homepage) – 3.370 views Alan Turing OBE, PhD, FRS (1912-1954) – 3,210 views Peter Lapping … Read more

Repatriation of Turing archive material

During a repatriation ceremony held at Sherborne School on 22 August 2023, HSI Special Agent Greg Wertsch and DOJ AUSA Laura Hurd formally handed over to the Headmaster of Sherborne School material from the School’s Turing Archive, which had been seized in Colorado in February 2018 by the US Dept of Homeland Security Investigations. The … Read more

School Sport

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Sherborne Connect Wins More Awards

  We are delighted to announce that for the second year running, our alumni network platform Sherborne Connect has been awarded the prize for Outstanding Network Growth and Engagement by Graduway, the providers of the platform.  Percentage wise we have consistently had the highest sign up rate of any of their 1,000 plus clients, both … Read more

The lunar crater named after a Sherborne schoolmaster

In 1970, Ellison crater, a lunar impact crater measuring 36.99 km in diameter, was named in honour of Mervyn Ellison, a former science master at Sherborne School. Mervyn Archdall Ellison FRAS (1908-1963) was a solar astronomer of international repute who studied solar flares and their terrestrial effects.  The third son of the Rev. William Frederick … Read more

Action4Diabetics

A Type 1 Diabetes charity, set up by three OS brothers (Nick (g 13), James (g 17) and Oliver (g 12)) and their father, will be celebrating their 5th year of work in 2020. With Action4Diabetics (A4D) supporting nearly 400 young people in 6 different countries across Southeast Asia, they have managed to make some … Read more

Overland to Sierra Leone for Cure Parkinson’s Trust

Former British Army Officer, Guy Deacon (a 80) was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 2011. In May he undertook a gruelling 500-mile cycle challenge round the north coast of Scotland to raise money for Cure Parkinson’s Trust (CPT), a charity dedicated to finding a cure for the disease. On Saturday 9 November  2019 Guy set off … Read more