Five Shirburnians have been awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest military decoration awarded for gallantry in action. Their names are commemorated on the plaque at the entrance to the School chapel. During the Second World War one Victoria Cross was awarded to a Shirburnian, Abbey House’s Lieutenant Jack Grayburn, who was killed in action at … Read more
Happy 60th birthday to The Digby, which opened its doors as a school boarding house on 18 September 1964 with 62 boys (including 1 day boy) under housemaster Peter Currie and house tutor Robert Glen. Find out about the history of The Digby, including why there are stone ostriches on the roof, why the house … Read more
Sherborne School has a proud Olympic heritage dating back to the Games of the IV Olympiad in 1908. To date, seven Olympic medals have been won by Shirburnians and members of staff – one gold medal, one silver medal, and five bronze medals. Top of the medal table is School House with one gold and … Read more
On 5 June 1944, 12-year-old Peter Powis was amongst a group of boys playing cricket at Sherborne Prep School when suddenly the sky above them was full of ‘hundreds and hundreds of aircraft, mostly Whitley and Halifax bombers towing strings of gliders, crossing the sky, from horizon to horizon, flying sort-of south east.’ This was … Read more
It is with sadness that we heard of the death of David Prichard who passed away on 2 April 2024, aged 89. Our thoughts go out to David’s wife Elizabeth, his family and friends. David was a former Chair of Governors at Sherborne Prep, a post to which he brought his wealth of experience as … Read more
On 23 January 1934, Sherborne Abbey’s great tenor bell arrived back in Sherborne from London, where it had been recast by Mears & Stainbank at the Whitechapel Bell Foundry. Traditionally, the tenor bell was known as Wolsey’s great bell because it was believed that Cardinal Thomas Wolsey had had the bell made in Tournai and … Read more
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
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
On Tuesday, 11th September 2001, Steven Lawn (The Digby 1987-91) was working in his office on the 82nd floor of the South Tower of the World Trade Center in New York, when terrorists crashed a second plane into the Twin Towers. He was 28 years old. Today, Steven’s name is inscribed, along with those of … Read more
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