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to replace an earlier one. The building and estate was the biggest in Dorset and the last of the grand stately homes to be built in England. The home had been occupied by the Portman family for 30 years at the time of its sale, but death duties made it impossible for the 4th Lord Portman to hold on
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The school opened on 24 January 1928 with 23 pupils and seven members of staff. It grew as a boys' school to some 450 pupils before admitting girls in 1972 - initially into the 6th form only. By 2004, the school had around 650 pupils and 80 teachers.
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There were seven teachers and 23 boys of various ages in the first term. Jeffreys innovated whilst respecting traditions, reflected in his choice of school motto,
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In 2005, the school was one of fifty of the country's leading independent schools which were found guilty of running an
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and named after a headteacher of Bryanston. The 300-seat concert hall was named after conductor Sir
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In 2014, the school opened a new music building, the Tom Wheare Music School, designed by
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and modelled on the chateau at Menars in the Loire valley. Shaw designed the house for
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and artistic school. The principles of the Dalton Planare still in place today.
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Bryanston was founded in 1928 by a young schoolmaster from Australia named
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Member schools of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference
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Public school in Bryanston near Blandford Forum, Dorset, England
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Sarah Thomas (2005–2019) – first female head of Bryanston
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for pupils aged 13–18) located next to the village of
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Bryanston is a member of the 8: 1533:Educational institutions established in 1928 574:Category:People educated at Bryanston School 486:GCSE Results (2023): 38% achieved grades 9-7 636:(1831–1912), architect of the main building 430:Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference 355:Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference 1037: 1023: 1015: 31: 945:Bryanston Reflections: Et nova et vetera 710:Bryanston Reflections: Et nova et vetera 753:Diarmuid MacDonagh (14 September 2014) 652: 591:The school estate has Europe's tallest 1431:Anglo-European College of Chiropractic 947:, Angela Holdsworth (editor). London: 888:Christiansen, Rupert (4 August 2009). 677:. 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Sarah Thomas (teacher)

Bryanston
Blandford Forum
Dorset
Coordinates
50°51′58″N 2°11′10″W / 50.866°N 2.186°W / 50.866; -2.186
Public school
Private school
Church of England
J. G. Jeffreys
Department for Education
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Tables
Mixed
Old Bryanstonians
www.bryanston.co.uk
public school
private
boarding
day school
Bryanston
Blandford Forum
country house
Richard Norman Shaw
Viscount Portman
Sir Edwin Lutyens
Wrenaissance
Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference
Eton Group

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