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The Manchester Grammar School (MGS) is the largest independent day school for boys in the United Kingdom (ages 7–18) and is located in Manchester, England. Founded in the 16th century as a free grammar school, it was formerly adjacent to Manchester Parish Church (later Manchester Cathedral) until 1931 when it moved to its present 28-acre site at Fallowfield. In accordance with its founder's wishes, MGS has remained a predominantly academic school and belongs to the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference. In the post-war period, MGS was a direct-grant grammar school. It chose to become an independent school in 1976 after the Labour government abolished the Direct Grant System. Fees for 2012–2013 are £10,545 per annum.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Fees )〕 ==Motto, coat of arms and school badges== The school's motto is ''Sapere Aude'' ("Dare to be Wise"), which was also the motto of the council of the former County Borough of Oldham (now, with the same coat of arms, the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham),〔 granted on 7 November 1894. ''Sapere aude'' is a quotation from Horace, famously used by Immanuel Kant and also the motto of The Enlightenment. The MGS coat of arms, which the school displays in the Memorial Hall, were the arms borne by Hugh Oldham, Bishop of Exeter. It consists of the arms of the Bishopric of Exeter and Oldham's personal arms side by side. The Exeter arms depict the keys and sword, emblems of St Peter and St Paul, to whom Exeter Cathedral is dedicated. Oldham's family arms display owls, which it is assumed were chosen as a pun on the first syllable of his surname, and red roses, indicative of his Lancastrian ancestral origins. During a visit by the Queen to MGS in 1965 it was discovered that the school had (within living memory and the available records), in all innocence, been using Bishop Hugh Oldham's personal episcopal arms. Heraldically, this is improper practice, though such use of a founder's arms by scholastic establishments is not uncommon. As a consequence the Old Mancunians undertook to finance an application by the school to the College of Arms for an official grant of arms particular to itself. Arms are honours and all honours in the United Kingdom stem from the monarch. Heraldic matters come under the jurisdiction of the Earl Marshal, the Duke of Norfolk, and he is approached in such matters through the College of Arms in London. The officer of the college who dealt with the school's petition for a grant of arms was Colonel J. R. B. Walker, Clarenceux King of Arms. The Senior School Badge is an outline of an owl, carrying a banner with the word "dom" on it. This is a heraldic "canting" reference to its founder, Hugh Oldham, and the badge should be read as "owl-dom". This suggests that he pronounced his name, as the local accent in Oldham still tends to do, as "Ow()dem". Owls are also to be seen in the shield of the Borough of Oldham. There is possibly a second significance to the "dom" of which Hugh Oldham, as a bishop, would have been very well aware. D.O.M. was and is a standard abbreviation for ''Deo Optimo Maximo'' meaning "To God, the Best and the Greatest", a phrase of dedication often required to be written by schoolboys before the Reformation and in Roman Catholic education since, at the head of a new piece of work, a practice continued into adult life by many as they committed a new undertaking into God's hands. This badge replaced the original one when the School colours changed from red, black and yellow to dark and light blue to reflect its connection with the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. The Junior School badge, which depicts the face of an owl, was introduced to blazers and ties in 2008. 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「Manchester Grammar School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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