Wolverhampton Grammar School

Wolverhampton Grammar School is a fee paying mixed sex selective day school. It was founded in 1512 by Sir Stephen Jenyns, a master of the ancient guild of Merchant Taylors, who was also Lord Mayor of London in the year of Henry VIII's coronation. Jenyns was born in the city of Wolverhampton circa 1448. In the year 1519 he was one of the wealthiest men in the country. This is evidenced through the fact that he paid more tax than any other person in that year.

Related Topics:
Stephen Jenyns - Merchant Taylors - Henry VIII

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In 1875, the School moved to its present site on the Compton Road from its previous site on John Street in the centre of Wolverhampton. This move was overseen by the Chairman of Governors, Sir Rupert Kettle. In 1984, the school admitted girls to the sixth form and in other embraces of modernity was the largest single user of assisted places funds, with over 40% of pupils in the 1980's and early 1990's reliant upon assisted places funding. In 1992, the school became fully co-educational, this move being seen as somewhat controversial at the time.

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Famous Alumni

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• Thomas Attwood - Founder of the Birmingham Political Union and National Political Union in 1829, which pushed for democratic reform, feted as a hero after the Great Reform Act of 1832, later an MP for Birmingham.
• Mervyn King - Current Governor of the Bank of England and Chairman of the Monetary Policy Committee.
• Sir David Wright - Former British ambassador to Japan.
• Sir Norman Craven Brook, 1st Lord Normanbrook of Chelsea - Head of the British Civil Service in the late 1950's and 1960's. Described by the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography as "the great technician of cabinet government in the mid twentieth century", also Chairman of the BBC Board of Governors 1963-1967.
• Sir William Congreve - Rocket Designer
 
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