King Edward VI Grammar School, or KEGS, is a British

Great Britain

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 grammar school

Grammar school

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 located in the town

Town

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 of Chelmsford

Chelmsford

Chelmsford is the county town of Essex, England and the principal settlement of the borough of Chelmsford. It is located in the London commuter belt, approximately northeast of Charing Cross, London, and approximately the same distance from the once provincial Roman capital at Colchester...

, Essex

Essex

Essex is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East region of England, and one of the home counties. It is located to the northeast of Greater London. It borders with Cambridgeshire and Suffolk to the north, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent to the South and London to the south west...

, England

England

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. It takes pupils between the ages of 11 and 18 — from Year 7 to 11 the pupils are exclusively male, although it becomes mixed in the sixth form

Sixth form

In the education systems of England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, and of Commonwealth West Indian countries such as Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Belize, Jamaica and Malta, the sixth form is the final two years of secondary education, where students, usually sixteen to eighteen years of age,...

 (years 12 and 13).

The present headteacher is Thomas Sherrington, who succeeded Dr. Mike Walker, after Walker moved to Felsted School

Felsted School

Felsted School, an English co-educational day and boarding independent school, situated in Felsted, Essex. It is in the British Public School tradition, and was founded in 1564 by Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich who, as Lord Chancellor and Chancellor of the Court of Augmentations, acquired...

 in 2008.

History of the school

KEGS was one of many 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...

s founded by Edward VI

Edward VI of England

Edward VI was the King of England and Ireland from 28 January 1547 until his death. He was crowned on 20 February at the age of nine. The son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour, Edward was the third monarch of the Tudor dynasty and England's first monarch who was raised as a Protestant...

. Its current form resulted from a royal warrant

Royal Warrant

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 dated 24 March 1551, although evidence of this school exists from as far back as the 13th Century, possibly earlier, in an alternative location. Indeed, the school of 1551 was merely a "rebranding" of the Chelmsford Chantry School, a Roman Catholic institution which had been abolished along with the monasteries during the English Reformation

English Reformation

The English Reformation was the series of events in 16th-century England by which the Church of England broke away from the authority of the Pope and the Roman Catholic Church....

. The school was moved to its present site on Broomfield Road in 1892. Once a boarding school

Boarding school

A boarding school is a school where some or all pupils study and live during the school year with their fellow students and possibly teachers and/or administrators. The word 'boarding' is used in the sense of "bed and board," i.e., lodging and meals...

, it was one of many grammar schools to fully join the state sector and abolish the nominal fees. The last boarders left in the 1970s.

The school is ranked in the top 20 schools in the country in national examination league tables. KEGS is a Foundation and Leading Edge school, and has also recently become a Specialist

Specialist school

The specialist schools programme was a UK government initiative which encouraged secondary schools in England to specialise in certain areas of the curriculum to boost achievement. The Specialist Schools and Academies Trust was responsible for the delivery of the programme...

 Science College

Science College

Science Colleges were introduced in 2002 as part of the now defunct Specialist Schools Programme in the United Kingdom. The system enabled secondary schools to specialise in certain fields, in this case, science and mathematics...

. As of April 2008, KEGS has become a Language College

Language College

Language Colleges were introduced in 1995 as part of the Specialist Schools Programme in the United Kingdom. The system enables secondary schools to specialise in certain fields, in this case, modern foreign languages...

.

In 1981 it was named by The Sunday Times

The Sunday Times (UK)

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as the most successful state school as measured by Oxbridge

Oxbridge

Oxbridge is a portmanteau of the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge in England, and the term is now used to refer to them collectively, often with implications of perceived superior social status...

 open awards. In 1998, it was rated by the Financial Times

Financial Times

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 as the most successful state school at GCE advanced level in the period 1993-1998. In 2001 the school was named Sunday Times School of the Year. In 2003 the Daily Mail

Daily Mail

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called the school "one of England's most ancient and traditional grammar schools". The 2006 Good Schools Guide names KEGS as the top school (independent

Independent school (UK)

An independent school is a school that is not financed through the taxation system by local or national government and is instead funded by private sources, predominantly in the form of tuition charges, gifts and long-term charitable endowments, and so is not subject to the conditions imposed by...

 or maintained) in England for A-level Chemistry

Chemistry

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, and the top selective state school for boys in English Literature

English literature

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 at A-level. In November 2006, it was judged to be "outstanding" by OFSTED.

House system

In 1907, headmaster Frank Rogers set up the system of "Houses"

House system

The house system is a traditional feature of British schools, and schools in the Commonwealth. Historically, it was associated with established public schools, where a 'house' refers to a boarding house or dormitory of a boarding school...

 — Holland, named for Philemon Holland

Philemon Holland

Philemon Holland was an English translator.His father, John Holland, was a clergyman who fled the Kingdom of England during the persecutions of Mary I of England...

; Mildmay, for Sir Walter Mildmay; Strutt, for Joseph Strutt

Joseph Strutt (engraver and antiquary)

Joseph Strutt was an English engraver, artist, antiquary and writer.-Childhood:Strutt was born at Springfield Mill in Chelmsford, Essex, the youngest son of Thomas Strutt by his wife Elizabeth - the mill belonged to his father, a wealthy miller...

; and Tindal, for Nicholas Conyngham Tindal

Nicholas Conyngham Tindal

Sir Nicolas Conyngham Tindal was a celebrated English lawyer who successfully defended Queen Caroline at her trial for adultery in 1820...

, dividing the school into four forms in each year. The four houses, each with a staff head of house and a team of house officials drawn from the Upper Sixth, including a House Captain and deputies, compete throughout the year in sporting, musical and theatrical events, among others, to gain points towards the house championship. Each House is represented by a colour:

Holland

Mildmay

Strutt

Tindal

House events

The House System has adapted into a competition in which each house competes in various inter-house competitions in order to win points.

Standards: In June, every member of the house is encouraged to partake in athletic events over three evenings, with each event awarding the participant a maximum of three points depending on how well the task was completed. A single point is awarded simply for turning up, encouraging mass participation.

House Music: Each house is designated 30 minutes to present five musical acts, with requirements such as representation from each section of the school, which are judged by a panel including a guest well-renowned in a field of music.

House Drama: Each house must perform five acts that fall into different categories (e.g. Monologue

Monologue

In theatre, a monologue is a speech presented by a single character, most often to express their thoughts aloud, though sometimes also to directly address another character or the audience. Monologues are common across the range of dramatic media...

, Duologue, Junior & Senior Pieces), and again requiring participation from across the school, which are each then marked out of 100.

House Sporting Events: Particularly in the lower school, emphasis is placed on sporting events, with annual rugby

Rugby union

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, football

Football (soccer)

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, cross-country, rowing

Rowing (sport)

Rowing is a sport in which athletes race against each other on rivers, on lakes or on the ocean, depending upon the type of race and the discipline. The boats are propelled by the reaction forces on the oar blades as they are pushed against the water...

 and other events being held for each year group. 'Sports Morning', in the winter, and 'Sports Day' in the summer are also held with a larger amount of pupils taking part.

Combined Cadet Force and Corps of Drums

The school maintains an Army contingent of the Combined Cadet Force

Combined Cadet Force

The Combined Cadet Force is a Ministry of Defence sponsored youth organisation in the United Kingdom. Its aim is to "provide a disciplined organisation in a school so that pupils may develop powers of leadership by means of training to promote the qualities of responsibility, self reliance,...

 (CCF), which is also open to students of Chelmsford County High School for Girls

Chelmsford County High School for Girls

Chelmsford County High School for Girls, or "CCHS", is a selective grammar school for girls aged 11–18 located in Chelmsford, Essex, England. It is one of the most consistently high-achieving secondary schools in the UK, regularly scoring in the top 5 schools for both GCSE and A-level results.In...

. Military music is provided within the contingent by a Corps of Drums playing drums, flutes and bugles. The Corps wears the full dress scarlet tunics of The Essex Regiment

Essex Regiment

The Essex Regiment was an infantry regiment of the British Army that saw active service from 1881 to 1958. Members of the regiment were recruited from across Essex county. Its lineage is continued by the Royal Anglian Regiment.-Origins:...

, incorporating the purple facings which gave the Essex Regiment its nickname 'The Pompadours'. It carries the drums of the 4/5th Battalion (Territorial Army) emblazoned with the Regiment's battle honours.

KEGS music

The school has many ensembles, of which the orchestras include members from other schools, though the majority are from KEGS and Chelmsford County High School for Girls

Chelmsford County High School for Girls

Chelmsford County High School for Girls, or "CCHS", is a selective grammar school for girls aged 11–18 located in Chelmsford, Essex, England. It is one of the most consistently high-achieving secondary schools in the UK, regularly scoring in the top 5 schools for both GCSE and A-level results.In...

. The other ensembles are exclusive to those who attend KEGS.

• Junior Orchestra
• Senior Orchestra
• KEGS Strings
• Chamber Ensemble
• Choir
• Wind Band
• Jazz Ensemble
• Big Band

World Challenge

Whilst in the sixth form, each student has the chance to embark on a biennial World Challenge Expedition. Here teams of around 10-15 students undertake an eighteen month build-up to raise money for, and participate in a month-long expedition in a remote, wild destination. The expedition involves:

• acclimatisation for and participation in a remote trek

• community work with a school or village

• sight-seeing

• rest & recreation

In summer 2006, the school successfully sent 70 students in five teams to India & the Himalayas

Himalayas

The Himalaya Range or Himalaya Mountains Sanskrit: Devanagari: हिमालय, literally "abode of snow"), usually called the Himalayas or Himalaya for short, is a mountain range in Asia, separating the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau...

. A typical trek here involved fifteen days walking & camping at altitudes of over 4000 metres. Sight-seeing took the teams from Jaipur and Pushkar in Rajasthan to the Taj Mahal

Taj Mahal

The Taj Mahal is a white Marble mausoleum located in Agra, India. It was built by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his third wife, Mumtaz Mahal...

 in Agra.

In summer 2008, students completed successful expeditions to China, Vietnam and Kyrgyzstan. Previous destinations have included Peru, Bolivia and Tanzania. In 2010 five teams left for Uganda and Madagascar.

The Fleur De Lys Society

The Fleur de Lys Society (FDL) was a sixth-form debating society cum charity fundraising society. The FDL was believed to have been started by Frank Rogers, an influential Headmaster. As well as holding debates on a variety of topical subjects, it was also an important charitable organisation within the school. From 1980 to 2007 the FDL held its annual charity week, usually the final week of Spring Term. FDL Week involved events for the entire school, where money was raised for chosen charities - in 2005, £5,000 was raised and divided among J's Hospice, The Teenage Cancer Trust and The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. The society hosted weekly assemblies for the school and in order to become a member you had to be voted in by your sixth form peers via means of an election speech. Many former Fleur De Lys members have gone on to achieve great things - for example, Joe Thomas who currently stars in E4's The Inbetweeners. However, due to the controversial nature and content of most debates, the Society was suspended in 2007, but debating was revived at KEGS in September 2009 under the auspices of the new KEGS Debating Society.

The KEGS Ambassador

The KEGS Ambassador is the official school newspaper, bringing "News and Views" to KEGS at large. It was formed after a competition in late 2008 between The KEGS Ambassador and The Edwardian. It has had articles from famous Alumni such as Simon Heffer and industry experts (for example, Mr. S. Chandramohan). Its first Editor-in-Chief was Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan, followed by Lewis Wood, with the current Editor-in-Chief being David Tremain.

Of the Chelmsford Chantry School (before the Royal Charter of 1551)

• John Dee
  John Dee (mathematician)
  John Dee was an English mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, occultist, navigator, imperialist and consultant to Queen Elizabeth I. He devoted much of his life to the study of alchemy, divination and Hermetic philosophy....
  
  , noted mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, occultist, and consultant to Queen Elizabeth I; responsible for the English translation of Euclid
  Euclid
  Euclid , fl. 300 BC, also known as Euclid of Alexandria, was a Greek mathematician, often referred to as the "Father of Geometry". He was active in Alexandria during the reign of Ptolemy I...
  
  's work.

Pre 1900

• Philemon Holland
  Philemon Holland
  Philemon Holland was an English translator.His father, John Holland, was a clergyman who fled the Kingdom of England during the persecutions of Mary I of England...
  
  , celebrated classical scholar
• Thomas Plume
  Thomas Plume
  The Reverend Doctor Thomas Plume, B.A., D.D. was an English churchman and philanthropist, founder of a school which still stands today, the Plume School, in Maldon, Essex.-Family life:...
  
  , Archdeacon
  Archdeacon
  An archdeacon is a senior clergy position in Anglicanism, Syrian Malabar Nasrani, Chaldean Catholic, and some other Christian denominations, above that of most clergy and below a bishop. In the High Middle Ages it was the most senior diocesan position below a bishop in the Roman Catholic Church...
  
   of Rochester
  Rochester Cathedral
  Rochester Cathedral, or the Cathedral Church of Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary, is a Norman church in Rochester, Kent. The bishopric is second oldest in England after Canterbury...
  
   and educational benefactor, founded the chair of Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy
  Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy
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   at the University of Cambridge
  University of Cambridge
  The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
  
  
• Joseph Strutt
  Joseph Strutt (engraver and antiquary)
  Joseph Strutt was an English engraver, artist, antiquary and writer.-Childhood:Strutt was born at Springfield Mill in Chelmsford, Essex, the youngest son of Thomas Strutt by his wife Elizabeth - the mill belonged to his father, a wealthy miller...
  
  , author of "Sports and Pastimes of the People of England"
• The Rt. Hon. Sir Nicholas Conyngham Tindal
  Nicholas Conyngham Tindal
  Sir Nicolas Conyngham Tindal was a celebrated English lawyer who successfully defended Queen Caroline at her trial for adultery in 1820...
  
  , Lord Chief Justice of The Court of Common Pleas
• Christopher Roberts master at arms and eminent social anthropologist. Credited with the "theory of the humours." Close friend of Ship's commander and author Samuel Pepys.

1900-1960

• Professor Sir John Baker
  John Baker (legal historian)
  Sir John Hamilton Baker, QC, FBA, FRHistS, FBS is an English legal historian. He has been the Downing Professor of the Laws of England at the University of Cambridge since 1988.-Biography:...
  
  , Downing Professor of the Laws of England at the University of Cambridge and leading legal historian
• Maj-Gen Peter Baldwin
  Peter Baldwin
  Peter Baldwin is a British actor best known for his role of Derek Wilton in the UK soap opera Coronation Street.-Career:...
  
  CBE, Chief Executive of the Radio Authority from 1991-5
• Lord Fowler
  Norman Fowler
  Norman Fowler, Baron Fowler, PC is a British Conservative politician who was from 1981 to 1990 a member of Margaret Thatcher's Cabinet.-Early life:...
  
  , Conservative politician; former Cabinet minister
• Peter Joslin
  Peter Joslin
  Peter Joslin, QPM, DL. , is a former British police officer and Deputy Lieutenant of Warwickshire. He served as Chief Constable of Warwickshire Police, where he held the position for fifteen years from 1983 to 1998, becoming the county's longest serving police chief...
  
  , QPM, Chief Constable of Warwickshire Police (1983-1998)
• Robert O'Neill CMG, Ambassador to Austria from 1986-9, and to Belgium from 1989–92
• Brian Parkyn
  Brian Parkyn
  Brian Stewart Parkyn was a British Labour Party politician.Parkyn was educated at King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford and technical college. He was a conscientious objector in the Second World War...
  
  , Labour MP for Bedford
  Bedford (UK Parliament constituency)
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   from 1966–70
• Donald Ross
  Donald Ross (Lord Lieutenant)
  Colonel Donald Grant Ross OBE, DL was a British soldier.Ross served in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders from 1965 to 1996. Between 1996 and 1998, he was Commandant of Garelochhead Army Training Area, and between 1998 and 2003 of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Battalion of the Army Cadet...
  
   OBE, Lord Lieutenant of Dunbartonshire
  Lord Lieutenant of Dunbartonshire
  This is a list of people who have served as Lord Lieutenant of Dunbartonshire. Before the twentieth century, the county was spelled Dumbartonshire.*John Elphinstone, 11th Lord Elphinstone...
  
   from 2007-8
• Peter Seabrook
  Peter Seabrook
  Peter Seabrook is a British gardening writer and television broadcaster. He is well known for his work on the long running BBC gardening programme, Gardeners' World.He is currently the gardening correspondent of The Sun.-External links:*]]....
  
   MBE, gardener
• Wing Commander
  Wing Commander (rank)
  Wing commander is a commissioned rank in the Royal Air Force and the air forces of many other Commonwealth countries...
  
   Wilf Sizer, fighter pilot with 213 Squadron
  No. 213 Squadron RAF
  No. 213 Squadron was a squadron of the Royal Air Force. The squadron was formed on 1 April 1918 from No. 13 Squadron of the Royal Naval Air Service...
  
  
• Prof John G. Taylor
  John G. Taylor
  John Gerald Taylor, born 1931, gained a PhD from Christ's College, Cambridge . He has had a wide ranging academic career in mathematical physics and artificial intelligence. He is currently Emeritus Professor and Director of the Centre for Neural Networks at King's College London and Guest...
  
  , Professor of Mathematics at King's College London
  King's College London
  King's College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the federal University of London. King's has a claim to being the third oldest university in England, having been founded by King George IV and the Duke of Wellington in 1829, and...
  
   from 1971–96, and President of the European Neural Network Society
  European Neural Network Society
  The European Neural Network Society is an association of scientists, engineers, students, and others seeking to learn about and advance understanding of artificial neural networks...
  
   from 1993-4
• Paul White, Baron Hanningfield
  Paul White, Baron Hanningfield
  Paul Edward Winston White, Baron Hanningfield DL is a member of the House of Lords and was a British Conservative Party politician until early 2010, when the whip was withdrawn from him as a result of investigations into his criminal behaviour in relation to his Parliamentary expenses claims...
  
  
• Denis Wick
  Denis Wick
  Denis Wick is Britain's most influential orchestral trombonist of the 20th century. He is also an internationally respected brass teacher and designer of brass mutes and mouthpieces...
  
  , trombonist
  Trombone
  The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. Like all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player’s vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate...
  
  
• Rt Rev Clive Young
  Clive Young
  Clive Young is the Anglican Bishop of Dunwich in the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich.Educated at King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford and St John's College, Durham, Young was ordained a deacon in 1972 and began his career with a curacy at Neasden...
  
  , Bishop of Dunwich
  Bishop of Dunwich (Anglican)
  The Bishop of Dunwich is an episcopal title which was first used by an Anglo-Saxon bishop between the 7th and 9th centuries and is currently used by a suffragan bishop who assists a diocesan bishop. The title takes its name after Dunwich in the English county of Suffolk, which has now largely been...
  
   since 1999

Post 1960

• Nick Bourne
  Nick Bourne
  Nicholas Henry Bourne is a Welsh Conservative politician. He served as the Leader of the Welsh Conservative Party and as a member of the National Assembly for Wales for the Mid and West Wales electoral region from August 1999 until May 2011...
  
  , Conservative Leader of the Opposition at the National Assembly for Wales
  National Assembly for Wales
  The National Assembly for Wales is a devolved assembly with power to make legislation in Wales. The Assembly comprises 60 members, who are known as Assembly Members, or AMs...
  
   and AM for Mid and West Wales
• Neil Cole
  Neil Cole
  Neil Cole is an English television presenter, comedian, radio broadcaster and actor.-Early life:Cole was born in Bristol in 1972, and attended King Edward Grammar School in Chelmsford...
  
  , comedian, television presenter and radio broadcaster
• Mervyn Day
  Mervyn Day
  Mervyn Day is a former professional footballer who played in the Football League as a goalkeeper for West Ham United, Leyton Orient, Aston Villa, Leeds United, Luton Town, Sheffield United and Carlisle United. He later managed Carlisle United...
  
  , former professional footballer, now assistant manager of West Ham United Football Club
• Paul Dorrington
  Paul Dorrington
  Paul Dorrington is an English guitarist and bassist best known for his 1991-1995 tenure in The Wedding Present.Dorrington joined Sheffield group AC Temple in 1985, and recorded Rorschach Blot Test, a live compilation album featuring The Dustdevils and Kilgore Trout...
  
  , guitarist in The Wedding Present
  The Wedding Present
  The Wedding Present are a British indie rock group based in Leeds, England, formed in 1985 from the ashes of the Lost Pandas. The band's music has evolved from fast-paced indie rock in the vein of their most obvious influences The Fall, Buzzcocks and Gang of Four to more varied forms...
  
  
• Alex Dowsett
  Alex Dowsett
  Alex Dowsett is an English racing cyclist who rides for Team Sky. He was educated at Elm Green Preparatory School in Little Baddow, followed by King Edward VI Grammar School in Chelmsford.-Career:...
  
  , British cyclist
• Prof Roger Goodman
  Roger Goodman
  Roger Goodman is a Democratic member of the Washington House of Representatives, representing the 45th district since 2006. He has announced his candidacy for the US House of Representatives in the WA 1st congressional district.-Education:...
  
  , Nissan Professor of Modern Japanese Studies and Head of Social Sciences at the University of Oxford
  University of Oxford
  The University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...
  
  
• Guthrie Govan
  Guthrie Govan
  Guthrie Govan is a guitarist known for his work with the bands Asia , GPS, The Young Punx and The Fellowship as well as Erotic Cakes...
  
  , guitar virtuoso
• Simon Heffer
  Simon Heffer
  Simon James Heffer is a British journalist, columnist and writer.-Education:Heffer was educated at King Edward VI Grammar School in Chelmsford and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.-Career:...
  
  , British journalist and writer, The Daily Telegraph and The Daily Mail
• Thomas Jenkinson
  Squarepusher
  Squarepusher is the performing pseudonym of Tom Jenkinson, an English electronic music artist signed to Warp Records. He specialises in the electronic music genres of drum and bass and acid, with a significant jazz and musique concrète influence....
  
  , prominent electronic and jazz musician aka Squarepusher
• Jonathan Lewis, former Essex and Durham cricketer
• Anthony Marwood
  Anthony Marwood
  Anthony Marwood is a solo classical violinist, appearing in concerto performances worldwide with orchestras such as the Boston Symphony, LA Philharmonic, St Louis Symphony, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the UK's BBC orchestras, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, New Zealand Symphony and the...
  
  , internationally renowned concert violinist
• Andrew McGarry
  Andrew McGarry
  Andrew McGarry is an English cricketer. Born in Basildon, he was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast-medium bowler...
  
  , former Essex cricketer
• Maj-Gen
  Major-General (United Kingdom)
  Major general is a senior rank in the British Army. Since 1996 the highest position within the Royal Marines is the Commandant General Royal Marines who holds the rank of major general...
  
   Anthony Milton
  Tony Milton
  Major-General Anthony Arthur Milton CB OBE is a Royal Marines officer who became Commandant General Royal Marines.-Military career:Educated at King Edward VI Grammar School in Chelmsford, Milton joined the Royal Marines in 1967 and subsequently became an equerry to the Duke of Edinburgh...
  
   CB OBE, Commandant General Royal Marines
  Commandant General Royal Marines
  The Commandant General Royal Marines is the professional head of the Royal Marines. The title has existed since 1945...
  
   and Commander UK Amphibious Forces from 2002-4
• Grayson Perry
  Grayson Perry
  Grayson Perry is an English artist, known mainly for his ceramic vases and cross-dressing. Perry's vases have classical forms and are decorated in bright colours, depicting subjects at odds with their attractive appearance. There is a strong autobiographical element in his work, in which images of...
  
  , 2003 Turner Prize winner
• Mike Smith
  Mike Smith (television presenter)
  Mike Smith is a British television, radio presenter, racing driver, pilot, and businessman.-Radio career:...
  
  , touring car driver and television presenter
• Joe Thomas
  Joe Thomas (actor)
  Joseph "Joe" Thomas is an English actor perhaps best known for his role as Simon Cooper in the E4's comedy The Inbetweeners...
  
  , actor - The Inbetweeners
  The Inbetweeners
  The Inbetweeners is a British sitcom which aired for three series from 2008 to 2010 on E4. Created and written by Damon Beesley and Iain Morris, the show follows the life of suburban teenager Will , and three of his friends at the fictional Rudge Park Comprehensive. The Inbetweeners Movie was...
  
  
• John Tipler
  John Tipler
  Johnny Tipler, a freelance writer, was born in Leicester, lived in Leeds as a child and grew up in Chelmsford.He attended King Edward VI Grammar School and then Southend College of Art...
  
  , international motoring journalist

External links

• The official KEGS website
• The School's most recent Ofsted inspection report