Uppingham School: An overview

Uppingham School is a co-educational independent educational institution which is based in a small market town in Rutland. Robert Johnson founded the school in 1584, he also went on the establish Oakham School. The school is very prestigious and it is associated with the Rugby Group of independent schools in the United Kingdom. As a result of its remote area the school has the very best playing fields areas of any school in England. Naturally being such a notable and revered higher education institution is has a rather interesting array of famous ex students, here is an index of just some of those names. Percy Chapman was an English cricketer who was captain of the national side between the years 1926 and also 1931. As a left handed batsmen he played 26 test matches for England, he was captain for 17 of those games. He was first made captain of England in the last test of the 1929 Ashes. England won the match as well as the Ashes for the first time in fourteen years. He and his wife were superstars of the day and they were often seen in highly fashionable areas of London. Johnny Hon attended the school in 1985 before going to Cambridge University and acquiring a Ph.D. He's an incredibly successful and diversified business person, with many interest and projects spanning banking, property development, financial services, education, media, entertainment and leisure, gaming, sports, mining, telecoms and also biotechnology. Stephen Fry joined the institution when he was 15 for a short length of time. He is one of the United Kingdom’s most popular celebrities. He first came to visibility as a result of his sketch show ‘A Bit of Fry & Laurie’ which included his acting colleague and long-time cast mate Hugh Laurie. After this show he did a whole host of other acting projects, including the famous role of Melchett in Blackadder, the BBC classic. He's also very well recognized for his voice over work, he read all 7 Harry Potter audiobooks in the UK recordings and he also narrated the Birds of Steel and the LittleBigPlanet video games. Mark Hadden is a prominent UK author, who is well known for his book ‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time’. This book won him the Commonwealth Writers Prize, the Guardian Prize and the Whitbread Award. He was educated at Uppingham before he studied English at Oxford University. Now, his most recent short story ‘The Pier Falls’ was longlisted for the Sunday Times short story award the most financially rewarding short story award.