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| Motto | Quant Je Puis (Old French) |
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Motto in English | As much as I can |
| Type | Public school Private co-educational Catholic boarding and day school |
| Established | 1794 |
| Founder | Robert Persons |
Religious affiliation | Catholic Church (Jesuit) |
| Headmaster | John Browne |
| Students | 461 |
| Location | , BB7 9PZ , England |
| Former pupils | Old Stonyhursts |
| Patron saint | Aloysius Gonzaga |
| Colours | Green and White |
| Website | stonyhurst |
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Stonyhurst College or Stonyhurst is a co-educational Catholic private school, adhering to the Jesuit tradition,[2][3] on the Stonyhurst Estate next to the village of Hurst Green, Lancashire, England. It occupies a Grade I listed building. The school has been fully co-educational since 1999. It is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference.[4]
A precursor institution of the college was founded in 1593 by Father Robert Persons SJ at St Omer,[5][6] at a time when penal laws prohibited Catholic education in England. It relocated to Stonyhurst Hall in 1794 having moved already to Bruges in 1762 and Liège in 1773, after an old boy, Thomas Weld (of Lulworth), granted it the Stonyhurst estate.[5][6] It provides boarding and day education to approximately 450 boys and girls aged 13–18.[7] On an adjacent site, its preparatory school, St Mary's Hall, provides education for boys and girls aged 3–13.[8]
Its alumni/ae include three Saints, twelve Beati, twenty-two martyrs, seven archbishops, seven Victoria Cross winners,, a Peruvian president and prime minister, a New Zealand Prime Minister, a signatory of the American Declaration of Independence and a number of writers, sportsmen, politicians, and European royals.[9]
- ^ George Gruggen and Joseph Keating, Stonyhurst: Its Past History and Life in the Present (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1901) p. 65.
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- ^ a b Stonyhurst College in Encyclopædia Britannica 2008. Retrieved 9 July 2008
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IndSch_1was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Stonyhurst College :: Independent Schools Inspectorate". www.isi.net. Retrieved 26 January 2025.
- ^ T.E. Muir, Stonyhurst, (St Omers Press, Gloucestershire. Second edition, 2006) ISBN 0-9553592-0-1 pp.188-192