Hampton Lucy

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Hampton Lucy from Charlecote Park, dominated by the St Peter ad Vincula parish church

Hampton Lucy is a village and parish on the River Avon, four miles north-east of Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire. It forms part of the county's Barlichway hundred. The population of the civil parish as taken at the 2011 census was 566.[1]

Hampton Lucy Grammar School

The grammar school at Hampton Lucy was founded and endowed by the Rev. Richard Hill, curate of Hampton Lucy, in the 11th year of the reign of Charles I.[2] In 1867, the school had two departments; the upper department had some boarding school students who were each charged 8 pounds, 8 shillings per year.[3] The school closed and was replaced by the Hampton Lucy Grammar School Foundation, which is a charity providing educational grants to children and young persons residing in the parishes of Hampton Lucy, Charlecote, Wasperton or Alveston.

Prominent residents

  • Charles Maries (1851–1902), the Victorian botanist was born and educated at Hampton Lucy.[4]
  • Sir Ian Wilmut OBE, the embryologist, was born in Hampton Lucy on 7 July 1944.
  • Rev. Canon Osbert Mordaunt, for twenty years proprietor of the village public-house at Hampton Lucy. Rector from 1874 to 1922.[5] Died in October 1923[6]

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References

Outside links

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about Hampton Lucy)

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