Nelson College
Nelson College is the oldest state secular secondary school in New Zealand founded on April 7, 1856 in Nelson, New Zealand. It is a mixed day and boarding school for boys aged 13 (Form III/Year 9) to 18 (Form VII/Year 13), and also runs a small Preparatory Department for Forms I and II (Years 7/8). Nelson College currently educates just over 1100 boys.
Famous Old Nelsonians
- Leonard Henry Trent (Victoria Cross)
- Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson (Nobel Prize, Chemistry)
- Sir Wallace (Bill) Rowling (Prime Minister of New Zealand)
- Sir Geoffrey Palmer (Prime Minister)
- Don McKinnon (Deputy Prime Minister, now Commonwealth Secretary-General)
- Rex Sellers (Olympic gold medal--Tornado yachting class, 1984)
- Andrew Livingston (Professor of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London)
- Sean Plunket (Presenter on Radio New Zealand's flagship news programme Morning Report)
- Tex Morton (Robert William Lane) (Country music legend)
- Basil Collyns {fighter pilot ace in WWII}
- James Chilton Francis Hayter {fighter pilot ace in WWII}
- Frederick Augustus Bennett {First Bishop of Aotearoa}
- Peter Simpson {Head of English, University of Auckland}
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