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Ricards Lodge High School is a single sex comprehensive secondary school for girls aged 11 to 16, located on Lake Road in Wimbledon, London. The school's headteacher has been Alison Jerrard since 2005. The school's motto is "Educating Successful Women of the Future", and 68% of students in 2008 achieved 5+ GCSE A *-C (results ). == History before 1900 == The manor of Wimbledon was presented to the Archbishop of Canterbury by Edward the Confessor in the 12th century. The property remained in the possession of his successors until the reign of Henry the VIII when it was re-possessed by the crown. It was sold again by Queen Elizabeth 1st to Sir Christopher Hatton, and from him in turn to Sir Thomas Cecil. Queen Elizabeth was not interested in the property whilst it was in her possession but was later entertained there on several occasions. A new manor house was built in 1588, where today's Arthur Rd and Home Park Rd meet. The manor was purchased by Sir Theodore Janssen in 1717. Sir Theodore Janssen was unfortunate enough to be made the scapegoat of Prime Minister Sir Robert Walpole's relief plan and hence stripped of his properties. Following the confiscation of Janssen's estates, Wimbledon manor was purchased in 1725 by Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough. The duchess decided to build herself a new manor house with a northward view. To achieve this, she cleared away completely the remains of the old Cecil manor house. The duchess died in 1744 and left the estate to the 1st Earl Spencer. John Spencer died in 1783 and was succeeded by his only son, George John. At Easter 1785, the house was burnt down. A new Wimbledon Park House was commissioned from Henry Holland, built between 1795 and 1801 and demolished in 1949. Both the Marlborough house and the Spencer house stood within the current school playing fields, with the Cecil house just beyond that, at the top of Home Park Road. An underground brick-lined tunnel, which had linked the Duchess's house to her servants quarters, still exists. 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「Ricards Lodge High School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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