Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School

Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School is a Roman Catholic school in Holland Park, London, with approximately 950 students. The school does not select first year pupils on academic ability, but accepts pupils who are practising Catholics. The school is renowned for the quality of both its choral and instrumental music, with a significant number of pupils who go on to Oxford and Cambridge, reading music. HistoryAfter the death of the third Archbishop of Westminster, Herbert, Cardinal Vaughan in 1903 an appeal was set up to raise funds to found a boys' school to be named as a memorial to him; some £20, 000 was subscribed. The school was founded in 1914; the founders included Viscount Fitzalan, the Duke of Norfolk and the Marquis of Ripon. At first a private school, it became a state-funded grammar school in 1944. The Vaughan began to take pupils of all abilities in 1977 and became an all-ability school. Girls were first admitted to the sixth form in 1977. The school is now voluntary-aided public school and draws pupils chiefly, but not exclusively from Inner London. The Vaughan School opened its doors in the Victorian Building now known as Addison Hall, as a private school, to twenty-nine boys on 21 September 1914, appointing Canon Driscoll as the first Headmaster. In the next decade the school expanded and it was decided to seek recognition by the Board of Education for the grant as an independent day school. A piece of land, some 6acre in North Wembley, was also purchased for playing fields, which were later exchanged for the present site at Twickenham, adjacent to the international Rugby Football Union ground

Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School is a Roman Catholic school in Holland Park, London, with approximately 950 students. The school does not select first year pupils on academic ability, but accepts pupils who are practising Catholics. The school is renowned for the quality of both its choral and instrumental music, with a significant number of pupils who go on to Oxford and Cambridge, reading music. HistoryAfter the death of the third Archbishop of Westminster, Herbert, Cardinal Vaughan in 1903 an appeal was set up to raise funds to found a boys' school to be named as a memorial to him; some £20, 000 was subscribed. The school was founded in 1914; the founders included Viscount Fitzalan, the Duke of Norfolk and the Marquis of Ripon. At first a private school, it became a state-funded grammar school in 1944. The Vaughan began to take pupils of all abilities in 1977 and became an all-ability school. Girls were first admitted to the sixth form in 1977. The school is now voluntary-aided public school and draws pupils chiefly, but not exclusively from Inner London. The Vaughan School opened its doors in the Victorian Building now known as Addison Hall, as a private school, to twenty-nine boys on 21 September 1914, appointing Canon Driscoll as the first Headmaster. In the next decade the school expanded and it was decided to seek recognition by the Board of Education for the grant as an independent day school. A piece of land, some 6acre in North Wembley, was also purchased for playing fields, which were later exchanged for the present site at Twickenham, adjacent to the international Rugby Football Union ground