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Queen's College, Taunton

Index Queen's College, Taunton

Queen's College is a co-educational independent school located in Taunton, the county town of Somerset, England. [1]

56 relations: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Arthur Henderson, Baron Rowley, Arthur Henry Reginald Buller, Badminton, Baron Leighton of St Mellons, Ben Ackland, Blackdown Hills, Boarding school, Brendon Hills, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, Canoe polo, Carrie Davis, County town, Dean Ryan, Eamonn Andrews, Ed Weeks, Fencing, George Shenton, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Hampshire County Cricket Club, Harold Watkinson, House system, Independent school, Independent school (United Kingdom), Independent Schools Council, Jake Lintott, James Howard Williams, John Baron (politician), John Widgery, Baron Widgery, Kayaking, L.A. Confidential (film), Listed building, Martin Pipe, Matthew Clay (swimmer), Mendip Hills, Methodism, Mixed-sex education, Mountain biking, Netball, Nick Harvey, Non scholae sed vitae, Perth, Peter D. Mitchell, Peter Honess, Quantock Hills, Robert Bond, Rugby union, Sir Robert Hart, 1st Baronet, Somerset, Swimming (sport), ..., Taunton, The Duke of Edinburgh's Award, The Good Schools Guide, This Is Your Life (UK TV series), Track and field, Wesleyanism. Expand index (6 more) »

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS (often pronounced as am-pas), also known as simply the Academy) is a professional honorary organization with the stated goal of advancing the arts and sciences of motion pictures.

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Arthur Henderson, Baron Rowley

Arthur Henderson, Baron Rowley, PC (27 August 1893 – 28 August 1968) was a British Labour Party politician.

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Arthur Henry Reginald Buller

Arthur Henry Reginald Buller (August 19, 1874 – July 3, 1944) was a British-Canadian mycologist.

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Badminton

Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net.

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Baron Leighton of St Mellons

Baron Leighton of St Mellons, of St Mellons in the County of Monmouth, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

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Ben Ackland

Benjamin James Ackland (born 26 October 1989) is an English born Irish cricketer.

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Blackdown Hills

The Blackdown Hills are a range of hills along the Somerset-Devon border in south-western England, which were designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) in 1991.

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Boarding school

A boarding school provides education for pupils who live on the premises, as opposed to a day school.

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Brendon Hills

The Brendon Hills are a range of hills in west Somerset, England.

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British Academy of Film and Television Arts

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) is an independent charity that supports, develops and promotes the art forms of the moving image – film, television and game in the United Kingdom.

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Canoe polo

Canoe polo, also known as Kayak polo, is one of the competitive disciplines of kayaking, known simply as "polo" by its aficionados.

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Carrie Davis

Carrie Nicole Prideaux (née Davis) (born 24 June 1976 in Barnstaple, England) is a current sportsreader on the BBC News Channel, best known for reading the sports news on The Chris Moyles Show on BBC Radio 1.

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County town

A county town in Great Britain or Ireland is usually, but not always, the location of administrative or judicial functions within the county.

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Dean Ryan

Dean Ryan is a former corporal in the Corp of Royal Engineers and England Rugby Union Number 8, and was head coach at Guinness Premiership side Gloucester Rugby.

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Eamonn Andrews

Eamonn Andrews, CBE (19 December 1922 – 5 November 1987) was an Irish radio and television presenter, employed primarily in the United Kingdom from the 1950s to the 1980s.

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Ed Weeks

Edward Charles Egerton Weeks (born 25 October 1980 in Banbury, England) is an English actor, comedian, writer and producer.

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Fencing

Fencing is a group of three related combat sports.

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George Shenton

Sir George Shenton (4 March 1842 – 29 June 1909) was a prominent businessman in colonial Western Australia, the first Mayor of Perth, and a Member of the Western Australian Legislative Council for over thirty years.

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Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Goodbye, Mr.

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Hampshire County Cricket Club

Hampshire County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales.

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Harold Watkinson

Harold Arthur Watkinson, 1st Viscount Watkinson, (25 January 1910, in Walton on Thames – 19 December 1995, in Bosham) was a British businessman and Conservative Party politician.

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House system

The house system is a traditional feature of schools in England, originating in England.

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Independent school

An independent school is independent in its finances and governance; it is usually not dependent upon national or local government to finance its operations, nor reliant on taxpayer contributions, and is instead funded by a combination of tuition charges, donations, and in some cases the investment yield of an endowment.

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Independent school (United Kingdom)

In the United Kingdom, independent schools (also private schools) are fee-paying private schools, governed by an elected board of governors and independent of many of the regulations and conditions that apply to state-funded schools.

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Independent Schools Council

The Independent Schools Council (ISC) is a non-profit organisation that represents over 1,300 schools in the United Kingdom's independent education sector.

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Jake Lintott

Jacob Benedict 'Jake' Lintott (born 22 April 1993) is an English cricketer.

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James Howard Williams

James Howard Williams, also known as Elephant Bill (15 November 1897 – 30 July 1958), was a British soldier and elephant expert in Burma, known for his work with the Fourteenth Army during the Burma Campaign of World War II, and for his 1950 book Elephant Bill.

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John Baron (politician)

John Charles Baron (born 21 June 1959) is a British Conservative politician and the Member of Parliament for Basildon and Billericay since 2001.

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John Widgery, Baron Widgery

John Passmore Widgery, Baron Widgery, (24 July 1911 – 26 July 1981) was an English judge who served as Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales from 1971 to 1980.

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Kayaking

Kayaking is the use of a kayak for moving across water.

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L.A. Confidential (film)

L.A. Confidential is a 1997 American neo-noir crime film directed, produced and co-written by Curtis Hanson.

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Listed building

A listed building, or listed structure, is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, Cadw in Wales, and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency in Northern Ireland.

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Martin Pipe

Martin Charles Pipe CBE (born 29 May 1945), was a racehorse trainer until his retirement in April 2006.

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Matthew Clay (swimmer)

Matthew Clay (born 27 October 1982) is an English swimmer best known for winning gold in the men's 50 m backstroke at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne.

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Mendip Hills

The Mendip Hills (commonly called the Mendips) is a range of limestone hills to the south of Bristol and Bath in Somerset, England.

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Methodism

Methodism or the Methodist movement is a group of historically related denominations of Protestant Christianity which derive their inspiration from the life and teachings of John Wesley, an Anglican minister in England.

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Mixed-sex education

Mixed-sex education, also known as mixed-gender education, co-education or coeducation (abbreviated to co-ed or coed), is a system of education where males and females are educated together.

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Mountain biking

Mountain biking is the sport of riding bicycles off-road, often over rough terrain, using specially designed mountain bikes.

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Netball

Netball is a ball sport played by two teams of seven players.

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Nick Harvey

Sir Nicholas Barton Harvey (born 3 August 1961) is a British Liberal Democrat politician.

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Non scholae sed vitae

Non scholæ sed vitæ is a Latin phrase.

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Perth

Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia.

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Peter D. Mitchell

Peter Dennis Mitchell, FRS (29 September 1920 – 10 April 1992) was a British biochemist who was awarded the 1978 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his discovery of the chemiosmotic mechanism of ATP synthesis.

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Peter Honess

Peter Honess (born 1946) is a British film editor with more than thirty film credits dating from 1973.

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Quantock Hills

The Quantock Hills is a range of hills west of Bridgwater in Somerset, England.

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Robert Bond

Sir Robert Bond, KCMG, PC (February 25, 1857 – March 16, 1927) was the last Premier of Newfoundland Colony from 1900 to 1907 and the first prime minister of the Dominion of Newfoundland from 1907 to 1909 after the 1907 Imperial Conference conferred dominion status on the island.

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Rugby union

Rugby union, commonly known in most of the world as rugby, is a contact team sport which originated in England in the first half of the 19th century.

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Sir Robert Hart, 1st Baronet

Sir Robert Hart, 1st Baronet GCMG (20 February 1835 – 20 September 1911) was a British diplomat and official in the Qing Chinese government, who served as the second Inspector-General of China's Imperial Maritime Custom Service (IMCS) from 1863 to 1911.

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Somerset

Somerset (or archaically, Somersetshire) is a county in South West England which borders Gloucestershire and Bristol to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east and Devon to the south-west.

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Swimming (sport)

Swimming is an individual or team sport that requires the use of ones arms and legs to move the body through water.

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Taunton

Taunton is a large regional town in Somerset, England.

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The Duke of Edinburgh's Award

The Duke of Edinburgh's Award (commonly abbreviated DofE), is a youth awards programme founded in the United Kingdom in 1956 by Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, that has since expanded to 144 nations.

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The Good Schools Guide

The Good Schools Guide is a guide to British schools, both state and independent.

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This Is Your Life (UK TV series)

This is Your Life is a British biographical television documentary, based on the 1952 American show of the same title.

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Track and field

Track and field is a sport which includes athletic contests established on the skills of running, jumping, and throwing.

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Wesleyanism

Wesleyanism, or Wesleyan theology, is a movement of Protestant Christians who seek to follow the "methods" or theology of the eighteenth-century evangelical reformers John Wesley and his brother Charles Wesley.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen's_College,_Taunton

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