Lord Wandsworth College, often abbreviated to LWC, is a medium-sized fully co-educational independent school in Hampshire, England. It takes both day and boarding pupils from the ages of 11 - 18. It is set among farmland adjacent to the small village of Long Sutton, near the small town of Odiham and village of South Warnborough. The current headmaster is Fergus Livingstone.
The school was founded in 1928 by a bequest in the will of Sydney James S...
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Lord Wandsworth College, often abbreviated to LWC, is a medium-sized fully co-educational independent school in Hampshire, England. It takes both day and boarding pupils from the ages of 11 - 18. It is set among farmland adjacent to the small village of Long Sutton, near the small town of Odiham and village of South Warnborough. The current headmaster is Fergus Livingstone.
The school was founded in 1928 by a bequest in the will of Sydney James Stern, Lord Wandsworth, who had intended to create a fairly straightforward orphanage. The executors of his will, however, followed the letter rather than the spirit of the will and began instead a school teaching agricultural skills to boys who had lost one or both parents. Starting as a kind of agricultural orphanage with a few lessons, the balance of farming against school work slowly shifted until the 1950s, by which time Lord Wandsworth College was a fairly typical independent school, albeit one surrounded by farmland whose operation (by a...
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