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Malvern College is an independent coeducational day and boarding school in Malvern, Worcestershire, England. It is a public school in the British sense of the term and is a member of the Rugby Group and of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference. Since its foundation in 1865,〔(Malvern College to reopen as normal after serious fire ). BBC News. 11 April 2010. Retrieved 2 August 2010〕〔 (2009 reprint via Google books ) (Note: Google's authorship citation is inaccurate – see Internet Archive version for actual title page)〕 it has remained on the same grounds, which are located near the town centre of Great Malvern. The campus, now covering some 250 acres〔 (101 ha), is set against the backdrop of the Malvern Hills. There are currently about 670 pupils enrolled at the school, aged between 13 and 18. Additionally, there are about 310 pupils aged from 3 to 13 at ''The Downs, Malvern College Prep School'', in nearby Colwall in Herefordshire. Across the two schools, in total, there are nearly 1000 pupils. Among the alumni of the College are at least two Commonwealth Prime Ministers, two Nobel Laureates (five Nobel Prizes including prep school alumni), an Olympic Gold medalist and many other notable persons from various fields. The novelist C. S. Lewis, author of ''The Chronicles of Narnia'', is a former pupil of the school. In collaboration with its Chinese partners, the College has two schools in China, Malvern College Qingdao and Malvern College Chengdu.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.malvernchengdu.cn/en/ )〕 A third school in Cairo, Egypt is under construction, and Malvern College Hong Kong had been allocated a new site in Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong, adjacent to the Hong Kong Science Park. ==History== Set in the Malvern Hills, the school's location owes much to Malvern's emergence in the nineteenth century as a fashionable spa resort, appreciated for its unpolluted air and the healing qualities of its famous spring water. The school opened its doors for the first time on 25 January 1865 under the headship of the Rev. Arthur Faber. Initially, there were only twenty-four boys, of whom eleven were day boys, six masters and two houses, named Mr McDowall's (No.1) and Mr Drew's (No.2), but the new school's expansion was rapid. One year later, there were sixty-four boys.〔Cookson, R.T.C (1905), p. xvii〕 By 1875, there were 200〔Cookson, R.T.C (1905), p. xix〕 on the Roll and five boarding houses ; by the end of the 19th century, the numbers had risen to more than 400 boys〔Cookson, R.T.C (1905), p.xxiv〕 and ten houses.〔〔see Cookson, R.T.C (1905), p.XL for table of Master's Houses circa 1900〕 American poet Henry Longfellow visited the school in 1868,〔 Prince and Princess Christian on speech-day in 1870〔 and The Duke and Duchess of Teck visited in 1891 with their daughter, Princess May (later Queen Mary).〔 Lord Randolph Churchill's speech-day comments on education in 1889 were reported in The Times.〔(''Lord Randolph Churchill At Malvern'', The Times, Thursday, 1 August 1889; pg. 8; Issue 32766; col A )〕 The school was one of the twenty four Public Schools listed in the Public Schools Yearbook of 1889 and was incorporated by Royal Charter in 1928.〔(Chartered bodies ). Privy Council Office. Retrieved 20 March 2012.〕 Further expansion of pupil numbers and buildings continued between the end of the First World War in 1918 and the start of the Second World War in 1939. During the two Wars, 457 and 258 former pupils, respectively, gave their lives.〔Old Malvernian Newsletter. No. 23. May 2000. p. (The Chapel)〕 Seven former pupils were among 'the few' who took part in the Battle of Britain.〔(Battle of Britain memorial unveiled at Malvern College ). BBC official website. 15 September 2010. Retrieved 22 May 2011.〕 Following the onset of World War II, the College premises were requisitioned by the Admiralty between October 1939 and July 1940, with the result that the school was temporarily relocated to Blenheim Palace. In 1942, its premises were again needed for governmental use, on this occasion by the TRE and, from May 1942 to July 1946, the school was housed with Harrow School. QinetiQ, a private sector successor to the government's original research facility, is still sited on former college land. Having traditionally been a school for boys aged from 13 to 18 years old, in 1992 it merged with Ellerslie Girls’ School and Hillstone prep school to become a coeducational school〔 for pupils aged 3 to 18 years old. The college also departed from the full boarding tradition of the English public school and allows day pupils, although over two thirds of pupils still choose to board. In September 2008, the College's Prep School merged with The Downs prep school on the latter's nearby site in Colwall, Herefordshire to form ''The Downs, Malvern College Prep 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「Malvern College」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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