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The Latymer School
Address
Haselbury Road Edmonton, Greater London, N9 9TN England
Coordinates	51°37′30″N 0°04′28″W / 51.6250°N 0.0744°W / 51.6250; -0.0744
Information
Type	Voluntary aided grammar school
Motto	Latin: Qui Patitur Vincit ("He who endures wins")
Established	1624; 401 years ago (1624)
Founder	Edward Latymer
Local authority	Enfield Council
Department for Education URN	102055 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Chair of the Governing Board	Stephen Way
Headteacher	Maureen Cobbett
Staff	141 (as of November 2016)
Gender	Co-educational
Age	11 to 18
Enrolment	1,365 (2016–17 academic year)
Houses	Ashworth   Dolbé   Keats   Lamb   Latymer   Wyatt
Colour(s)	Royal and navy blue
Website	https://www.latymer.co.uk

The Latymer School is a selective, mixed grammar school in Edmonton, London, England, established in 1624 by Edward Latymer.

History and traditions

Latymer was established in 1624 on Church Street, Edmonton by bequest of Edward Latymer, a London City merchant in Hammersmith. Although most of his wealth passed to the people of Hammersmith and the Parish of St Dunstan's (now Latymer Upper School), he named certain properties and estates to fund the education and livelihoods of "eight poore boies of Edmonton" with a doublet, a pair of breeches, a shirt, a pair of woollen stockings and shoes distributed biannually on Ascension Day and All Saints' Day. Pupils wore the red Latymer cross on their sleeves.

In 1662, John Wild of Edmonton made a bequest for the annual maintenance of a schoolmaster and a poor scholar at Cambridge. In 1697, Thomas Style extended the bequest to fund the education of "twenty poor boys ... Grammar and Latin tongue." Several similar benefactions produced about £550 per annum, which funded the instruction of more than one hundred boys, of which sixty were clothed. In 1811, Ann Wyatt, a widow from Hackney, willed her Navy Annuities for the construction and maintenance of a new school. The school-room was built in 1811 in accordance to her will.

The school did not take on Latymer's name for some centuries; when it finally did, it was known as Latymer's School. At some point, the apostrophe was dropped and the name modified to the Latymer School. It has been situated on its present site since 1910, when it also became coeducational.

The school has formal links with St John's College, Cambridge (Edward Latymer's College) and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (the College of Edward Latymer's father, William Latymer) which have endowments which may be used for the furtherance of the studies of former Latymer pupils at those colleges.

In 1967 the school switched to a comprehensive intake as a result of Circular 10/65, a request from the Labour government to local education authorities to plan for conversion to a fully comprehensive education system. However, a certain amount of informal selection still took place in liaison with local primary schools.

In 1988, Latymer took advantage of the Education Reform Act 1988 to become a Grant-Maintained school with selective entrance exams once more. Grant-maintained status was abolished by the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 and Latymer reverted to voluntary aided status.

Ofsted judgement and school ranking

The school underwent its most recent Ofsted inspection on 24 March 2022, when it received an overall grade of 'Good', after having previously been graded 'Outstanding' on 25 January 2008. Its 6th form facilities remain graded ‘Outstanding’ by Ofsted. In the 2023 'Parent Power' rankings, published by The Times newspaper, the school was ranked 21st in the UK and seventh-best in London. In that same year, 86.5% of GCSE examinations achieved A-grades (15th nationwide), and 61.7% of entries gained A-grades at A-level, while 83% obtained A or B grades (36th nationwide).

Notable former pupils

In entertainment

• Evelyn Ankers, actress, known as "the Queen of the B movies"
• Clare-Hope Ashitey, actress
• Eileen Atkins, actress
• Bruce Forsyth, entertainer
• Tim Pope, director
• Leslie Welch, radio and television personality, the Memory Man
• Aubrey Woods, actor, best known for performing "The Candy Man" in the 1971 film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
• Vivian Oparah, actress

In politics

• Syed Kamall, Conservative MEP
• Albert Meltzer, anarcho-communist writer
• Ash Sarkar, British journalist and left-wing political activist
• David Walder, Conservative Party politician

In academia

• Mark Abrams, social scientist
• John Horlock, vice-chancellor, Open University, 1981–90
• Liz Jolly, Chief Librarian, The British Library (from 2018)
• John Prebble, historian and novelist
• Stephen Wheatcroft, economist and civil aviation expert influential in founding of British Airways
• Yorick Wilks, artificial intelligence pioneer

In sport

• Ted Blake, trampoline pioneer
• Johnny Haynes, former Fulham F.C. and England football captain
• Leslie Medley, former Spurs and England footballer.
• Arthur Sanders, footballer
• Mark Warburton, formerly manager of Queens Park Rangers

In music

• James Blake, British electronic artist
• Grace Chatto, cellist in British electronic music band Clean Bandit
• Richard Cook, music writer, former executive of PolyGram records
• B.J. Wilson, original drummer of Procol Harum

Other

• Nick Holtam, 78th bishop of Salisbury
• Philip North, bishop of Blackburn

References

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2. "Latymer - Four Centuries of Giving". The Latymer Foundation. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
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8. Kennedy, Maev (22 December 2006). "He can sing, dance, make jokes, his timing is immaculate. He could match Sammy Davis Junior step for step". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 January 2017.
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11. Coveney, Michael (14 May 2013). "Aubrey Woods obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 March 2024.
12. Jackson, Benjamin (14 February 2024). "BAFTAs 2024 Who is Vivian Oparah, the "Rye Lane" actress nominated for the Best Actress award?". The National World. Retrieved 17 October 2024.
13. Nasrullah, Harun (29 January 2021). "Former MEPs head for the House of Lords". The Muslim News. Retrieved 22 March 2024.
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16. Wilkinson, F.L. (2020). The Territorial Air Force: The RAF's Voluntary Squadrons, 1926–1957. Pen & Sword Books. p. 213. ISBN 978-1-5267-5105-8. Retrieved 18 March 2024.
17. "Janus: The Papers of Mark Abrams". University of Cambridge. Retrieved 18 March 2024. He was educated at the Latymer School in Edmonton
18. "History of the OU – John Horlock". Open University. Archived from the original on 1 October 2015. Retrieved 14 April 2014.
19. "Library Lives: Liz Jolly, British Library Boston Spa and St Pancras". 2018. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
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21. "Stephen Wheatcroft, aviation expert – obituary". The Telegraph. 9 May 2016.
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23. Maybury, Mark (1 January 2007). "Yorick Alexander Wilks: A Meaningful Journey". In Ahmad, Khurshid; Brewster, Christopher; Stevenson, Mark (eds.). Words and Intelligence II. Text, Speech and Language Technology. Vol. 36. Springer Netherlands. pp. 1–37. doi:10.1007/1-4020-5833-0_1. ISBN 978-1-4020-5832-5.
24. dave@kingserv.org. "The detailed history of trampolining from Nissen to Blake and still onwards". Retrieved 30 January 2017.
25. Gardner, J. (2017). Johnny Haynes. Pitch Publishing. p. 25. ISBN 978-1-78531-347-9. Retrieved 14 March 2024.
26. Glanville, Brian (22 March 2001). "Les Medley". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 January 2017.
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28. Ralston, Gary (9 September 2016). "My old pal Mark Warburton's trying to make me a Rangers man but I'd LOVE a Celtic win says Frank McLintock". The Daily Record. Retrieved 14 March 2024.
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External links

• Official website
• A summary of Latymer's academic performance Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine
• A detailed history of the Latymer schools at British History Online
• Profile at the Good Schools Guide

• Educational institutions established in the 1620s
• Grammar schools in the London Borough of Enfield
• 1624 establishments in England
• Voluntary aided schools in London
• Edmonton, London