Woodard, Nathaniel (1811 - 1891)

There are now (in 1997) 24 Woodard Schools, administered by the Woodard Corporation under its five Divisional bodies, of which Lancing is head of the Southern Division. There are also two associated and 14 affiliated schools, three of the latter overseas in Malawi, USA and Australia.

Schools by division listing Foundation Date and Name of School

Southern Division

• 1844   St. Michael's School, Hove. (Advised and assisted by Woodard from 1855 and moved to Bognor. Acquired by the Woodard Corporation in 1864.) Later to Burton Park, Petworth. Closed 1994)


• 1848   Lancing College


• 1849   Hurstpierpoint College


• 1853   Bloxham School (presented to the Society in 1896)


• 1858   Ardingly College


• 1912   Ardingly College Junior School


• 1933   Hurstpierpoint College Junior School


• 1993   The Farmhouse, Ardingly, Nursery & Pre-preparatory School

Midlands Division

• 1868   Denstone College


• 1874   St. Anne's School Abbots Bromley*


• c.1880 St. Hilary's School (acquired 1955)


• 1880   St. Mary's School, Bromley*


• 1884   Ellesmere College


• 1890   Worksop College


• 1922   Smallwood Manor (prep. school for Denstone, acquired 1937)


• 1929   Prestfelde, Shrewsbury (added 1946, in 1961 amalgamated with Ellesmere College Junior School)


• 1948   Ranby House, prep school for Worksop

* Amalgamated in 1921

Western Division

• 1880   King's College, Taunton


• 1880   The Cathedral School, Llandaff (taken over 1957)


• 1904   St. Margaret's School, Exeter (previously an associated school, taken over 1975)


• 1889   The School of St. Clare (formerly Penzance Church of England Girls' School, presented to Society in 1928 and closed as Woodard School 1995)


• 1954   Grenville College, Bideford (taken over 1964)


• 1987   King's Hall, Taunton (amalgamating King's College Junior School (1952) and Pre-Prep. School (1978)

Northern Division

• 1860   The King's School, Tynemouth (taken over 1959)


• 1912   Queen Ethelburga's School, Harrogate, opened in 1912. In 1991/2 transferred to Thorpe Underwood Hall and became an Affiliated School, now k/a Queen Ethelburga's College. (see below)


• 1925   Queen Mary's School, Topcliffe, nr. Thirsk.

Eastern Division

• 1880   St. James' School, Grimsby (associated 1968, integrated 1985)


• 1895   Peterborough High School (associated in 1966 as Westwood House School, integral school 1968)

Associated Schools

• Durham School


• Bow School, Durham

Affiliated Schools

• Derby High School for Girls


• The Archbishop Michael Ramsey School, Camberwell


• The Bishop of Hereford's Bluecoat School


• Elmslie Girls' School, Blackpool


• Derby Independent Grammar School for Boys


• St. Elphin's School, Matlock


• Queen Ethelburga's College (see above, Northern Division)


• St. Peter's Collegiate School, Wolverhampton


• Cawston College, Norwich


• The Bolitho School, Penzance


• Bishop Stopford School, Kettering

Overseas Affiliated Schools

• Malosa Secondary School, Chilema, Malawi, Central Africa.


• St. Andrew's-Sewanee School, St. Andrew's, Tennessee, USA


• St. Margaret's Girls' School, Ascot, Queensland, Australia