Wennington School, founded by the Quaker

Britain Yearly Meeting

The Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends in Britain, also known as Britain Yearly Meeting , is a religious organisation in England, Scotland, Wales, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, often defined as a denomination of Christianity.It is a part of the international religious...

 educationalist Kenneth C. Barnes, was a co-educational and ultimately progressive boarding school.
It was originally founded in 1940 in Lunesdale, Lancashire

Lancashire

Lancashire is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West of England. It takes its name from the city of Lancaster, and is sometimes known as the County of Lancaster. Although Lancaster is still considered to be the county town, Lancashire County Council is based in Preston...

. Early governors included Alfred Schweitzer and John Macmurray

John Macmurray

John Macmurray MC was a Scottish philosopher. His thought moved beyond the modern tradition begun by Descartes and continued in Britain by Locke, Berkeley and Hume. He made contributions in the fields of political science, religion, and philosophy of education in a long career of writing,...

 http://www.johnmacmurray.org. At the end of the Second World War the school relocated to Ingmanthorpe Hall near Wetherby

Wetherby

Wetherby is a market town and civil parish within the metropolitan borough of the City of Leeds, in West Yorkshire, England. It stands on the River Wharfe, and has been for centuries a crossing place and staging post on the Great North Road, being mid-way between London and Edinburgh...

, Yorkshire

Yorkshire

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 where it remained until its closure in 1975 http://www.pettarchiv.org.uk/jointnewsletter/6.pdf .
Head Masters included Brian Hill http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-brian-merrikin-hill-1273925.html. The building was used in episodes of The Darling Buds of May

The Darling Buds of May

The Darling Buds of May is a British comedy drama which was first broadcast between 1991 and 1993 produced by Yorkshire Television for the ITV Network. It is set in an idyllic rural 1950s Kent, among a large, boisterous family. The three series were based on the novels by H. E. Bates. Originally...

.

Notable alumni

• Peter Lawrence
  Peter Lawrence
  Peter Anthony Lawrence FRS is a British developmental biologist at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology and the Zoology Department of the University of Cambridge...
  
  , developmental biologist
• Nicholas Maw
  Nicholas Maw
  John Nicholas Maw was a British composer.-Biography:Born in Grantham, Lincolnshire, Maw was the son of Clarence Frederick Maw and Hilda Ellen Chambers. He attended the Wennington School, a boarding school, in Wetherby in the West Riding of Yorkshire. His mother died of tuberculosis when he was 14...
  
  , composer
• William Howell, musician
• John Merrill (marathon walker), author and walker

External links

• http://www.wenningtonschool.org.uk/history.htm
• http://www.wenningtonschool.com/