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Wrekin College is a co-educational independent school located in Wellington, Shropshire, England. Part of the Allied Schools, it's also a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference.
The school was founded in 1880 as Wellington College by Sir John Bayley. In 1920, it was sold to the Revd Percy Warrington, a Church of England clergyman and renamed Wrekin College. Girls were introduced to the sixth form by headmaster Geoffrey Hadden in 1975. It became fully co-educational in 1983. There are currently 420 pupils of which 30% are boarders and 40% are girls.

Old Wrekinians

Harry Andrews (1911-1989), British stage and film actor
William R. P. George (1912-2006), Welsh poet
Sir Peter Gadsden (1929 – 2006), former Lord Mayor of London (1979), businessman
Brian Epstein (1934 – 1967), record producer
Sir John Roch (1934 - ), former Lord Justice of Appeal
Malcolm Bruce (1944 - ), LibDem MP
Field Marshal Rt Hon the Lord Inge KG, GCB, PC, DL (c. 1948 - ), former Chief of Defence Staff
Sir Ian Blair (1953 - ), Metropolitan Police Commissioner (2005 - )
Bob Warman (1948 - ), television presenter
James Faulkner (1948 - ), Voice/television actor

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