Bootham School is a private Quaker boarding school, on Bootham in the city of York in England. It accepts boys and girls ages 3–19 and had an enrolment of 605 pupils in 2016.
The school was founded by the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) and opened on 6 January 1823 in Lawrence Street, York. Its first headmaster was William Simpson (1823–1828). He was followed by John Ford (1828–). The school is now on Bootham, near York Minster. It is based in 51 Bootham, a building originally built in 1804 for Sir Richard Vanden Bempde Johnstone, but has expanded into several neighbouring buildings.
The school's motto Membra Sumus Corporis Magni means "We are members of a greater body", quoting Seneca the Younger (Epistle 95, 52).
Academics
Bootham was ranked at 43rd in the 2011 Independent Schools A-Levels League Tables.
Notable alumni
Notable former pupils include the 19th-century parliamentary leader
John Bright, the mathematician Lewis Fry Richardson ("father of
fractals"), the physicist and electrical engineer Silvanus P. Thompson, the historian A. J. P. Taylor, the actor-manager
Brian Rix, the applied linguist
Pit Corder, the child psychiatrist Sir
Michael Rutter, the social reformer
Seebohm Rowntree, the 1959 Nobel Peace Prize winner Philip Noel-Baker, Cabinet Secretary Sir
Jeremy Heywood, singer-songwriter Benjamin Francis Leftwich, the chief executive of Marks & Spencer
Stuart Rose and Jon Ingle, better known as drag artist
Lady Bunny.
See also
Further reading
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Bootham School Register. Compiled under the direction of a committee of O.Y.S.A., 1914, with revised eds. 1935, 1971, 2010.
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J. S. Rowntree, Friends' Boys' School, York a Sketch of its History 1829–1878 (1879)
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F. E. Pollard Bootham School 1823–1923 (JM Dent and Sons, 1926)
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S. K. Brown Bootham School York 1823–1973 (author, 1973)
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