Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The John Fisher School was founded by Peter Emmanuel Amigo, Archbishop of Southwark, in 1929 at Duppas Hill in Croydon, and moved in 1931 to its current premises in Peaks Hill, Purley. [1] It is the only currently-open school named after Saint John Fisher that was founded before his canonization in 1935. This is indicated by the absence of ...
Pages in category "People educated at The John Fisher School" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
He attended the John Fisher School, a Roman Catholic grammar school in Purley, where he was nicknamed "Knucks" because of his hands, [6] and was a member of the theatre group. [ citation needed ] As a child Nighy was known by many to be insecure and shy; as a teenager he became an avid reader, particularly enjoying the works of Ernest Hemingway ...
St. John Fisher University (originally St. John Fisher College) was founded as a men's college in 1948 by the Basilian Fathers and with the aid of James E. Kearney, then the Bishop of the Diocese of Rochester. It is now operated as an coeducational independent institution in the Catholic tradition (independent since 1968; coeducational since 1971).
St John Fisher, built at a cost of was £225,000, was designed to accommodate 500 pupils of secondary modern standard. George Dwyer, Bishop of Leeds, opened the school in 1958 to provide a Roman Catholic education to the children of the Heavy Woollen District.
He was educated at Wadham College, Oxford, gaining a BA in Classics and a DipEd, and worked as a school teacher of classics at The John Fisher School, a Roman Catholic grammar school in Purley, Surrey, from 1959 to 1967. [1]
John William Townshend Walters was born on 23 April 1926 in Guildford, Surrey to William Bernard Townshend Walters, a Crown Agent, and Lilian Martha Hartridge. [1] He was educated at The John Fisher School in Purley, followed by Britannia Royal Naval College Dartmouth during its wartime relocation to Eaton Hall, Cheshire.
St John Fisher Catholic High School is a coeducational Roman Catholic secondary school and sixth form. [1] It is located in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England, and has developed steadily during the past 50 years and has around 1,400 pupils. The school is set in 22 acres (8.9 ha) on the south side of Harrogate and skirted by Hookstone woods.