Houses
Each pupil is placed into one of six houses upon starting at the school. The six houses are:
| House | Colour | Current House Leader | Significance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Denson | Sky Blue | E Hill | Named after the first President of the Old Boys’ Association, Thomas Denson. He was also the first to leave a bequest to the school. |
| Hampden | Green | R Rooney | Named after John Hampden, leader of the victorious Parliamentarian forces in the Battle of Aylesbury in 1642 |
| Lee | Yellow | P Dean | Named after the founder of the school, Sir Henry Lee, Bart of Ditchley |
| Paterson | Maroon | K Chalk | Named after Mrs. Paterson, a long serving member of the Governing body. The newest house, founded in 1981 |
| Phillips | Red | M Goodchild | Named after Henry Phillips of London, influential in the founding of the school |
| Ridley | Dark Blue | J Barrie | Named after the Reverend Christopher Ridley, the last Headmaster of the Old School before it became a mixed school in 1903. Reverend Ridley arrived at AGS in 1893 when there were just 130 boys in the school and his annual salary was just over £100 |
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Famous quotes containing the word houses:
“The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of industry, the screech of rubber and houses leashed in against one another while the townlets wither a time and die.”
—John Steinbeck (1902–1968)
“Men will say that in supporting their wives, in furnishing them with houses and food and clothes, they are giving the women as much money as they could ever hope to earn by any other profession. I grant it; but between the independent wage-earner and the one who is given his keep for his services is the difference between the free-born and the chattel.”
—Elizabeth M. Gilmer (1861–1951)
“Midway the lake we took on board two manly-looking middle-aged men.... I talked with one of them, telling him that I had come all this distance partly to see where the white pine, the Eastern stuff of which our houses are built, grew, but that on this and a previous excursion into another part of Maine I had found it a scarce tree; and I asked him where I must look for it. With a smile, he answered that he could hardly tell me.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)