Blackheath High School

History

Location

School motto

Notable former pupils

• Sophie Aldred, actress
• Isabel Appio, assistant music editor from 1986 to 1991 of Time Out
• Zeng Baosun, Chinese feminist, writer, and educator
• Prof Wendy Barclay, professor of influenza virology since 2007 at Imperial College London
• Phyllis Barclay-Smith CBE, ornithologist
• Lucy Boynton, actress
• The Reverend Prof Sarah Coakley, theologian, Norris–Hulse Professor of Divinity since 2007 at the University of Cambridge
• Jean Cooke, artist
• Saffron Coomber, actress
• Evelyn Denington, Baroness Denington, chairman from 1966 to 1980 of Stevenage Development Corporation
• Prof Alison Finch, professor of French from 2000 to 2003 at the University of Oxford, and acting master of Churchill College, Cambridge in 2012
• Jessica Fellowes, author and journalist
• Margaret Jay, Baroness Jay of Paddington
• Prof Elizabeth Jeffreys, Bywater and Sotheby Professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek Language and Literature from 1996 to 2006 at the University of Oxford
• Helene Kvale, actress
• Deborah Lawrenson, novelist
• Helen Lederer, comedian
• Liv Little, founder of gal-dem
• Fiona Maddocks, wife of Tom Phillips, chief music critic from 1997 to 2002 and since 2008 of The Observer, and founding editor from 1992 to 1997 of BBC Music Magazine
• Margaret Popham CBE, principal from 1937 to 1953 of Cheltenham Ladies' College
• Mary Quant, fashion designer
• Prof Anne Stevens, professor of European studies from 1998 to 2008 at Aston University, and from 1991 to 1998 at the University of Kent
• Dora Turnbull, wrote under the pen-name Patricia Wentworth
• Lesley Vickerage, actress
• Charlene White, journalist
• Beth Willis
• Diane Yeo, wife of Tim Yeo, and UK director from 2001 to 2003 of UNHCR, and director from 2003 to 2005 of the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign

  Published histories

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• Allen, Dr Hillary, Brief History of Blackheath High School GDST 1880–2005''. Retrieved 21 May 2008.