Notable Alumni
The alumni association, the Old Lennensians, was revived in 2006 in association with the centenary of the new buildings donated by Sir William Lancaster.
Former pupils of the school and its predecessor, the Lynn Grammar School, include: Captain George Vancouver; Captain Manby, whose rocket apparatus for ship-to-shore rescues was used by HM Coastguard until recently; and England cricketer and former Captain of Middlesex Peter Parfitt. The famous eighteenth-century murderer Eugene Aram was an usher (teacher) at the school, and was arrested there in the staff room.
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