Wimbledon College

Wimbledon College is a government-maintained, voluntary-aided, Jesuit Roman Catholic Secondary School for boys aged 11 to 19. The school is based at Edge Hill, Wimbledon, London. It was founded in 1892 "for improvement in living and learning to the greater glory of God and the common good." Its seal says in Latin, "College of the Sacred Heart, Wimbledon". It is affiliated with the Sacred Heart Church and Donhead Preparatory School, its main feeder preparatory school.

History

On the 18 January 1892, in the parlour of a newly founded church's presbytery at No.3 Cranbrook Road, Thomas Lloyd started at Wimbledon College. He was the first-ever student, and on that day he was to be alone. His brother William was meant to attend alongside him, but fell ill. After the first academic year, six more students joined the Lloyd brothers. In this time the school had moved twice, once to a property on Darlaston Road and once to a building adjoining the All England Lawn Tennis Courts. In 1893 the college moved to a recently abandoned building on Edge Hill, the former site of Wimbledon School, and has never moved since. By 1900, 100 pupils were in attendance. In 1898 the Wimbledon College Army Department was established. This trained young men for entrance into Sandhurst or Woolwich.