Wellington College (New Zealand)

Wellington College (in full, The Wellington College and Grammar School, sometimes just Coll) is a state school for boys located next to Government House and the Basin Reserve in Wellington, New Zealand. Having a history from 1853, it is a day school for boys aged 13 (Form 3 or Year 9) to 18 (Form 7 or Year 13)2. Wellington College was also a boarding school, until the College?s sole boarding house, Firth House, was demolished in 1981, but now there are plans to reestablish the school as both a day and boarding school.

Notable Old Wellingtonians

• Lieutenant General Lord Freyberg of Wellington, Victoria Cross in World War I and Governor-General
• Sir Denis Blundell, Governor-General
• Sir Paul Reeves, Archbishop of New Zealand and Governor-General
• Sir Michael Hardie Boys, Governor-General
• Lord Grey of Naunton, Governor (his most famous posting as Governor of Northern Ireland)
• Air Marshal Sir Roderick Carr RAF Bomber Command in World War II, Air Officer Commanding, India Command (Chief of the Indian Air Force)
• Major-General Sir William Gentry, Chief of Staff (NZ)
• Sir Michael Myers, Chief Justice
• Raybon Kan, comedian
• Diamond Jenness, Canadian anthropologist and ethnologist
• Harry Hawthorn, Canadian anthropologist
• J C Beaglehole, historian
• Sir Brian Barratt-Boyes, surgeon
• George Gair, politician
• Sir William Pickering, space scientist
• Keith Quinn, sports commentator
• Jonathan Sarfati, NZ Chess Champion and author
• John Campbell, New Zealand television personality