Dr Challoner's Grammar School, abbreviated to DCGS, is a Foundation Grammar School of approximately 1,285 boys located in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England.
It was founded in 1624 in accordance with the last will and testament of Dr Robert Chaloner (spelt with only one ‘l’). Chaloner was Rector of Amersham from 1576 to 1584, when he took up office as a Canon of Windsor, Berkshire, a post he held until his death in 1621.
In his will, Robert Chalo...
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Dr Challoner's Grammar School, abbreviated to DCGS, is a Foundation Grammar School of approximately 1,285 boys located in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England.
It was founded in 1624 in accordance with the last will and testament of Dr Robert Chaloner (spelt with only one ‘l’). Chaloner was Rector of Amersham from 1576 to 1584, when he took up office as a Canon of Windsor, Berkshire, a post he held until his death in 1621.
In his will, Robert Chaloner left money to establish a grammar school in Amersham. The school was situated in Old Amersham for almost three centuries before moving, with the support of Buckinghamshire County Council, to its present buildings in Amersham-on-the Hill in 1905. At this time, the school embraced the principle of co-education for the first time which, according to the school’s first prospectus in 1906, was "practically universal in America". Each year the boys at Challoner's celebrate Founder's Day where they go to the church where Robert Chaloner was...
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