Harrow School

Harrow School   (School)
Formation	1572
Founder	John Lyon of Preston
Type	•  Private school •  Boarding school
Staff	(full-time)

Harrow School is an independent school for boys in Harrow, London, England. The school has an enrolment of 829 boys, all of whom board full-time, in twelve boarding houses. It remains one of four all-boys, full-boarding schools in Britain, the others being Eton, Radley and Winchester.

It is one of the key institutions for the propagation of British establishment culture and cohesion, and the full list of notable Old Harrovians on Wikipedia is impressive.

History

The school was founded in 1572 by John Lyon under a Royal Charter of Queen Elizabeth I. Harrow is the fifth most expensive boarding school in the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference. Harrow's history, wealth and influence have made it one of the most prestigious schools in the world.

Harrow's uniform includes morning suits, straw boater hats, top hats and walking sticks. Its alumni include eight former British or Indian Prime Ministers (including Peel, Palmerston, Baldwin, Churchill and Nehru), foreign politicians, former and current members of both houses of the UK Parliament, five kings and several other members of various royal families, three Nobel Prize winners, twenty Victoria Cross and one George Cross holders, Academy-Award and BAFTA winners and many prominent figures in the arts and sciences.

Fagging

The system of fagging had long been a part of Harrow School life, and remained embedded in its culture up until the 1990s. In his detailed history of the school, Tyerman recorded that in 1796 fagging was compulsory for boys up to the fourth form, and that 50 out of 139 boys were then fags. He observed that in some situations fagging could either encourage or conceal sexual activity between boys, and that fagging began to decline at around the same time as homosexuality was eradicated as an acceptable part of the school environment. In 1928, Harrow master, C.H.P.Mayo, said of fagging: "Those who hope to rule must first learn to obey...to learn to obey as a fag is part of the routine that is the essence of the English Public School system...the wonder of other countries". The actor, Simon Williams described how, as a new pupil in 1959, he was required to fag for prefects who were four years his senior, involving such duties as spit and polishing his shoes, making his bed, serving tea, and even pre-warming the toilet seat for him.

 

Alumni on Wikispooks

Person	Born	Died	Nationality	Summary	Description
Allan Adair	3 November 1897	4 August 1988		Soldier
Alex Allan	9 February 1951		UK	Civil servant
Leo Amery	22 November 1873	16 September 1955	UK	Politician Deep state actor	UK historian and deep state actor, chief lieutenant of Alfred Milner
Stanley Baldwin	3 August 1867	14 December 1947	UK	Politician
Peter de la Billière	29 April 1934			Soldier
George Blake	11 November 1922		UK	Spook	A UK spy who passed a lot of documents to the USSR.
Robin Butler	3 January 1938		UK
Henry Chaplin	22 December 1840	29 May 1923		Politician
Winston Churchill	30 November 1874	24 January 1965	UK	Author Soldier Journalist Politician Historian Artist
Walter Cunliffe	3 December 1855	6 January 1920	UK	Central banker	Governor of the Bank of England 1913-1918
Archibald Gordon	9 July 1913	7 September 1984	UK	Author Broadcaster	One time Bilderberger, Scottish peer.
Charles Gore	22 January 1853	17 January 1932	UK	Clergy	Bishop of Oxford, a friend of Herbert Asquith
Jeremy Greenstock				Diplomat Deep state operative	UK diplomat who held a number of influential posts such as UK Permanent Representative to the United Nations and Chairman of the UNSC's Counter-Terrorism Committee, Brussels Forum
Charles Guthrie	17 November 1938			Soldier	UK Army's Chief of the General Staff 1994-1997
Charles Jocelyn Hambro	3 October 1897	1963		Spook Banker	spooky UK banker. SOE head
George Hamilton-Gordon	28 January 1784	14 December 1860		Politician	UK PM
Samuel Hoare	24 February 1880	7 May 1959	UK	Diplomat Spook Politician
Eric Holt-Wilson	26 August 1875	26 March 1950	UK	Spook Soldier	Draft The Defence of the Realm Act in 1914, later head of MI5
Esmé Howard	15 September 1863	1 August 1939		Diplomat Deep state actor	An integral member of the small group of men who made and implemented British foreign policy (the Milner group?)
Adlai Stevenson III	10 October 1930	6 September 2021	US	Politician	Single Bilderberg son of Adlai Stevenson II. Mooted as President or Vice President in 1976.
Keith Joseph	17 January 1918	10 December 1994	UK	Politician	Eminence grise of Thatcherism. Founded the Centre for Policy Studies
Edward Knollys	16 January 1895	3 December 1966	UK	Businessperson	UK aristocrat. Governor of Bermuda from 1941 to 1943. After the war, he became a banker and businessman. He attended two Bilderbergs in the 1950s.
Christopher Monckton	14 February 1952		UK	Politician	Journalist, Conservative political advisor, UKIP political candidate
Walter Monckton	17 January 1891	9 January 1965			UK/Minister of Defence 1955-56
Simon Sebag Montefiore	27 June 1965		UK	Historian	British well-connected historian specializing is perpetuating the black legend against Russia.
John Moore-Brabazon	8 February 1884	17 May 1964	UK	Politician Deep state operative
Jawaharlal Nehru	14 November 1889	27 May 1964		Author Politician Lawyer
Jonathan Oppenheimer	18 November 1969		South Africa	Businessperson	Scion of the gold and diamond Oppenheimer family, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, WEF/GLT/2002, WEF/YGL/2005...
Nicky Oppenheimer	8 June 1945			Businessperson
Charles Rothschild	9 May 1877	12 October 1923	UK	Academic Banker Entomologist	Entomologist Rothschild
David de Rothschild	25 August 1978		UK	Environmentalist Billionaire	$10 billion Rothschild family fortune. High interest in the climate change agenda.
Edmund de Rothschild	2 January 1916	17 January 2009	UK	Financier	English financier. Major Edmund "Eddy" Leopold de Rothschild, CBE.
Evelyn de Rothschild	29 August 1931	8 November 2022	UK	Financier	UK financier who together with his wife attended the 1998 Bilderberg. Both names appear in Epstein's black book
Victor Rothschild	31 October 1910	20 March 1990		Spook Banker Cricketer	"In so many aspects of spying that he seemed like a super-agent, sabotaging every Western intelligence initiative for 20 years after the war"
Bob Seely	1 June 1966		UK	Politician Propagandist	English politician who appears to be suffering from Russophobia
Henry John Temple	20 October 1784	18 October 1865		Politician	A British politician who served twice as Prime Minister in the mid-19th century.
Mark Thatcher	15 August 1953		UK	Criminal
Henry Thynne	26 January 1905	30 June 1992	UK	British aristocrat	British aristocrat, landowner, and Conservative Party politician. Amassed what would become the largest collection of paintings by Adolf Hitler,
Charles Wickham	11 September 1879	20 July 1971	UK	Soldier Police officer	British counter-insurgency expert organizing murder gangs and torture chambers in Northern Ireland, Greece and around the Empire.

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