The Fitzmaurice Grammar School was a Grammar School

Grammar school

A grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the United Kingdom and some other English-speaking countries, originally a school teaching classical languages but more recently an academically-oriented secondary school.The original purpose of mediaeval...

 in Bradford on Avon

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, England.. The school opened as the County School in 1897 with financial support from Edmond Fitzmaurice, 1st Baron Fitzmaurice

Edmond Fitzmaurice, 1st Baron Fitzmaurice

Edmond George Petty-Fitzmaurice, 1st Baron Fitzmaurice PC , styled Lord Edmond FitzMaurice from 1863 to 1906, was a British Liberal politician. He served as Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from 1883 to 1885 and again from 1905 to 1908, when he entered the cabinet as Chancellor of the...

. It was renamed Fitzmaurice Grammar School in 1936 after the death of Lord Fitzmaurice. The grammar school was closed in 1980 and merged with Trinity Secondary modern school

Secondary modern school

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  to form the comprehensive school

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 called St Laurence School

St Laurence School

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A primary school, known since 1985 as the Fitzmaurice Primary School, uses some of the former classrooms of the grammar school.

Notable former pupils

Alumni of the Grammar school include:

• Dr Geoffrey Copland CBE, Vice-Chancellor from 1996-2007 of the University of Westminster
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  , and former Chairman from 1997-2003 of the Coalition of Modern Universities, and of the Universities and Colleges Employers Association
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  , and current Chairman since 2007 of ASET
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• Charlotte Long
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  , actress