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:
“To me heaven would be a big bull ring with me holding two barrera seats and a trout stream outside that no one else was allowed to fish in and two lovely houses in the town; one where I would have my wife and children and be monogamous and love them truly and well and the other where I would have my nine beautiful mistresses on nine different floors.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)
“And when your children ask you, ‘What do you mean by this observance?’ you shall say, ‘It is the passover sacrifice to the LORD, for he passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt, when he struck down the Egyptians but spared our houses.’”
—Bible: Hebrew, Exodus 12:26-27.
“The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful. Before we can adorn our houses with beautiful objects the walls must be stripped, and our lives must be stripped, and beautiful housekeeping and beautiful living laid for a foundation.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)