Downe House School is a private girls' boarding and day school in Cold Ash near Newbury, Berkshire, for girls aged 11–18. Entrance is selective, and the...
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Downe House or Down House may refer to: Downe House School, a girls' boarding school in Berkshire, England Down House, Charles Darwin's home in the village...
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Downe, formerly Down (/daʊn/), is a village in Greater London, England, located within the London Borough of Bromley but beyond London's contiguous urban...
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Down House Darwin at Downe – proposed World Heritage Site A scientist's guide to visiting Down House Downe House School website History of Downe School Kent...
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Antonia Clarke (category People educated at Downe House School)
Brackenbury Village, West London. At age 15, Clarke attended Downe House boarding school in Berkshire. It was here she decided she wanted to be an actress...
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Clare Balding (category People educated at Downe House School)
Earls of Huntingdon. She was privately educated at the independent Downe House School in Berkshire, where she was head girl and a contemporary of comedian...
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Marina Hyde (category People educated at Downe House School)
Conservative politician Sir Rolf Dudley-Williams, 1st Baronet. She attended Downe House School, near Newbury in Berkshire, and read English at Christ Church, Oxford...
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Lady Gabriella Kingston (category People educated at Downe House School)
and Lady Elizabeth Shakerley. She was educated at Godstowe School and Downe House School in Cold Ash, Berkshire. In May 2004, Gabriella graduated from...
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Roosevelt and Franklin D. Roosevelt. She was privately educated at Downe House School in Newbury, Berkshire. She studied art history at Newcastle University...
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Downe House is a Grade II listed house on Richmond Hill, in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, which has been occupied by playwright Richard Brinsley...
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Hermione Corfield (category People educated at Downe House School)
Baptisms [1] - Genes Reunited". "Hermione Isla Conyngham CORFIELD". Company House UK. Burke's Landed Gentry 1952, ed. L. G. Pine, 'Corfield of Chatwall Hall'...
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Marjorie Linklater (category People educated at Downe House School)
family. Linklater was educated sparsely at St George's School, Edinburgh and Downe House School, Berkshire, before enrolling at London's Royal Academy...
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Catherine, Princess of Wales (category People educated at Downe House School)
where Catherine studied at Downe House School. She was a boarder at Marlborough College, a co-educational boarding school in Wiltshire, where she showed...
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Geraldine James (category People educated at Downe House School)
parents divorced. She failed her 11 plus exam, and was educated at Downe House School in Newbury, Berkshire, where she was known as Gerry Thomas. Embarrassed...
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Jean Campbell (model) (category People educated at Downe House School)
Lady Jean Violet Campbell (born 31 May 1997), known professionally as Jean Campbell, is a British fashion model. Throughout her career, she has modeled...
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Alexandra Tolstoy (category People educated at Downe House School)
older sister of Xenia Sackville, Lady Buckhurst. Tolstoy was educated at Downe House, and then studied for a Master of Arts degree in Russian at the University...
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Xenia Sackville, Lady Buckhurst (category People educated at Downe House School)
educated at Headington School, an all-girls boarding school in Headington, and at Downe House School, an all-girls boarding school in Cold Ash. After graduating...
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Laura Solon (category People educated at Downe House School)
raised in Great Kimble near Aylesbury.[citation needed] She attended Downe House School followed by Worcester College, Oxford where she received a scholarship...
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Pippa Middleton (category People educated at Downe House School)
educated at St Andrew's School, a private boarding school in Pangbourne and then Downe House School, a girls' day and boarding school in Cold Ash. She was...
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Miranda Hart (category People educated at Downe House School)
Petersfield, Hampshire. She was privately educated at Downe House, an independent boarding school for girls near Thatcham, Berkshire. She was a classmate...
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Dublin, member institution of the National University of Ireland Downe House School, AGN house motto "To the stars on the wings of a pig" Motto on John Steinbeck's...
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Georgina Rylance (category People educated at Downe House School)
Philippa Bailey. She was educated at St Paul's Girls' School, London, Downe House School, St Edward's School, Oxford, and Oxford Brookes University. After being...
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Venetia Burney (category People educated at Downe House School)
from Sky & Telescope publicized her role. Burney was educated at Downe House School in Berkshire and Newnham College, Cambridge, where she studied economics...
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In England and Wales, a public school is a type of fee-charging private school originally for older boys. They are "public" in the sense of being open...
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Look up Downe or downe in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Downe is a village in London. Downe may also refer to: Bill Downe (born 1952), Canadian banker...
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Elizabeth Bowen (category People educated at Downe House School)
remarried in 1918. She was educated at Downe House School under the headship of Olive Willis. After some time at art school in London she decided that her talent...
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Kristin Linklater (category People educated at St Leonards School)
theater program from 1965 to 1978. Educated at St Leonards School and Downe House School, she was a founding member in 1973 of Shakespeare & Company...
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nurse, social worker, physician and writer Olive Willis, founder of Downe House School Alison Adburgham, fashion editor of The Guardian, author and social...
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Peter's, a red brick house built in about 1700 and a Grade II listed building, is now part of the school. Former pupils of Downe House include the broadcaster...
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Valerie Goulding (category People educated at Downe House School)
became a Major general in the British Army. She was educated at Downe House School, near Newbury. Both Valerie and her brother, Gilbert, would ultimately...
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