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:
“People’s backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.”
—Sir John Betjeman (1906–1984)
“Strange that so few ever come to the woods to see how the pine lives and grows and spires, lifting its evergreen arms to the light,—to see its perfect success; but most are content to behold it in the shape of many broad boards brought to market, and deem that its true success! But the pine is no more lumber than man is, and to be made into boards and houses is no more its true and highest use than the truest use of a man is to be cut down and made into manure.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“You know, what I very well know, that I bought you. And I know, what perhaps you think I don’t know, you are now selling yourselves to somebody else; and I know, what you do not know, that I am buying another borough. May God’s curse light upon you all: may your houses be as open and common to all Excise Officers as your wifes and daughters were to me, when I stood for your scoundrel corporation.”
—Anthony Henley (d. 1745)