Alderman Newton's School
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Site of Alderman Newton's Boys School, Greyfriars, Leicester, from 1864 to 1920
Alderman Newton's School was a secondary school in Leicester. The original school was opened in 1784, thanks to money bequeathed by a former Mayor of Leicester, Gabriel Newton.[1] The school closed in 1999.[2]
Land at Greyfriars acquired by the school in 1863 later proved to be the site of the grave of King Richard III.
Notable former pupils
- Sir Greg Knight (born 1949), Conservative politician
- Harry Morley (1881-1943), artist and illustrator
- Sir Edwin Nixon (1925–2008), IBM executive
- Theodore Plucknett (1897–1965), academic and historian
- Sir John Plumb (1911–2001), historian
- Charles Percy Snow, Baron Snow (1905–1980), academic and novelist
- Trevor Storer (1930–2013), baker, founder of Pukka Pies
- Eric Trapp (1910–1993), Anglican Bishop of Zululand and later of Bermuda
- Sir Alan Walters (1926–2009), economist and advisor to Margaret Thatcher
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