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Campbell College is a voluntary grammar school〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Campbell College )〕 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The college educates boys from ages 11–18. It is one of the eight Northern Irish schools represented on the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference and is a member of the Independent Schools Council. The school occupies a estate in east Belfast, close to the Parliament Buildings at Stormont. All the school's facilities are located on this site, which also contains a small lake and forest named Netherleigh. Campbell's junior school – formerly located on an adjacent site and called Cabin Hill – is now also located on the site. The school has the oldest Combined Cadet Force in Ireland, with over 400 cadets.〔(Hansard )〕 The school has an international reputation and attracts boarders from Hong Kong, Singapore and Africa. Past pupils of the school are known as Old Campbellians and the school has an extensive past pupil organisation known as the Old Campbellian Society which has several branches across the United Kingdom as well as regular alumni reunions at the school itself. ==History== It was founded in 1894 thanks to a bequest from Henry James Campbell, who had made his fortune in the linen trade. Initially the school was primarily a boarding school but it has, particularly since the 1970s, become primarily a day school and in 2009 had 879 pupils, only about 85 (10%) of whom were boarders. As a selective independent school it admits pupils based on academic selection. Until 2006 pupils began at the school at age 11, but since the closure of the school's separate preparatory school, Cabin Hill, the school has accepted pupils from 4 into the newly built Junior School and both boys and girls into the school's kindergarten located on the school's grounds. The Latin motto of the school is "Ne Obliviscaris" (Do not forget). In 1935 Jimmy Steele led an attempted Irish Republican Army raid on the school in an effort to secure the arms inside the College Officers' Training Corps. The RUC at Strandtown was tipped off and the raid was unsuccessful. A gun battle took place at the gate lodge on Hawthornden Road in which Constable Ian Hay received five gunshot wounds, but survived.〔Northern Whig, 30 December 1935, pg. 3 (includes photograph)〕 In 1936 Steele and three other IRA members were captured, prosecuted and imprisoned in Crumlin Road Gaol.〔(''Internment'' by John McGuffin (1973) )〕 During World War II the school was requisitioned by the War Office as a hospital, with the pupils transferred to Portrush, north Antrim. Campbell lost 134 former students in World War I. There are separate memorials to the dead of both World Wars in the Central Hall.〔Haines, Keith. ''Neither rogues nor fools – a history of Campbell College''. Belfast, Campbell College, 1993.〕 Both of these events were experienced firsthand by Albert Maxwell, BEM, who worked for the school as groundsman and head porter for 64 years. Maxwell retired in 1993 but continued to live in the school's Grade B1 listed gate lodge until his death in 1997. The author C.S. Lewis, who grew up nearby, attended the school for two months before he was withdrawn because of a serious respiratory illness and sent to Malvern (Cherbourg School), famous at the time for treating people with lung problems.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=C S Lewis Foundation Chronology )〕 The gas lamppost on the school drive is claimed to have been the inspiration for that mentioned in Lewis' ''The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe''. However, some sources state a lamppost in Crawfordsburn Country Park was the inspiration.〔(www.i-uk.com )〕〔(www.visitbritain.com )〕 Several Campbell students have been involved in filmmaking. These include William MacQuitty (''A Night to Remember''), Andrew Eaton (''Resurrection Man''), Nick Hamm (''The Hole''), Dudi Appleton (''The Most Fertile Man in Ireland'') and Mark Huffam (''Saving Private Ryan''). Composer David Catherwood is currently director of music at Campbell. A collection of Lepidoptera by Thomas Workman is displayed in the school. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Campbell College」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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