City of London School Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

City of London School, or CLS for short, is an independent boys' school located on the banks of the River Thames, at the edge of the City of London in London, United Kingdom. It is the sister school of the City of London Freemen's School (a co-educational school located in Surrey) and the City of London School for Girls (a girls' school located within the Barbican Estate complex). Intake is from age 7 to 18, though many of its pupils enter at 11, and similarly join other independent schools for the sixth form (17-18).

Current pupils include Harry Potter actor Daniel Radcliffe and James Thompson, son of Diane Abbott MP.

Famous Old Citizens (Old Boys)

• Edwin Abbott Abbott - Schoolmaster, theologian and author
• Kingsley Amis - Writer
• Herbert Asquith - Prime Minister 1908-1916
• Julian Barnes - Novelist
• Mike Brearley - Cricketer
• Ralph Knott - Architect
• Luke McShane - Chess Grandmaster
• Charles Thomson Ritchie - Chancellor of the Exchequer 1902-1903
• John Robert Seeley - Historian and essayist

• City of London School web site
• John Carpenter Club (Old Citizen's Association)

Further Reading

• Carpenter's Children: History of the City of London School

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