Plymouth College is a co-educational private school in Plymouth, Devon.
History The school was established in 1877. In 1896 Plymouth College bought Mannamead School (founded in 1854), and was temporarily known as Plymouth and Mannamead College.Chris Robinson, 'Plymouth College, The First Hundred Years', 2005, Pen & Ink.
In 1976, the first girls were admitted to the school's sixth form. Plymouth College became fully coeducational in 1995. In 2004, the school absorbed St Dunstan's Abbey School, an independent school for girls founded by Lydia Sellon.A Sermon , Ascot Priory, retrieved 26 April 2015
The Whiteworks Outward Bound centre on Dartmoor has a 20-bed bunkhouse.
Sports The swimming programme has a partnership with the Plymouth Leander Swimming Club. At the 2012 Olympic Games, Rūta Meilutytė won the gold medal in the 100m breaststroke for Lithuania. In 2019, the under-14 girls hockey team won the national tier 2 championships. Other sports activities in this school include Whitewater rafting, Sea kayaking, Sailing, Mountain biking, and Scuba diving.
Former teachers
Henry John Chaytor
Notable alumni
Paul Ackford Michael BallBall referred to the school during his BBC Radio 4 Desert Island Discs interview (broadcast on 2 March 2008) and described his time as a boarder as a "horrible experience". Steve Banyard Kerenza Bryson Patrick K. Collins Chris Constantinou Michael Cooper (footballer) Sir Alfred Woodley Croft William Crossing Tom Daley Richard Deacon Stephen Davies Sir Rolf Dudley-Williams John Fabian Michael Foot Dawn French Wilson Harris Stuart Hibberd Frank Hoar Jade Howard William James Ronald Jasper Alexis Kirke Jamila Lunkuse Jake Libby Alexander Macklin David Forbes Martyn Sir Alexander Maxwell Rūta Meilutytė Honey Osrin Cassie Patten Finn Peters David Quantick Sir Leonard Rogers Paul Seymour Peter Seaton-Clark Henry Slade Milos Stankovic Laura Stephens Walter Stoneman Mark Tavener Kavus Torabi John Trevaskis J. C. Trewin Miles Tunnicliff Grace Neutral
References
External links
Profile on the Independent Schools Council website