Ashville College
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Ashville College is an independent day and boarding school for girls and boys aged 4–18 in Harrogate, North Yorkshire. It was founded as a Methodist boarding school for boys in 1877, and subsequently merged with Elmfield College and New College in the 1930s. It now thrives as the oldest private school in Harrogate.
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[edit] Houses
Riverdale, Ellis, Duckworth, Windermere
[edit] Boarding houses
Lancaster (junior boys), Briggs (senior boys), Mallinson (senior boys), Norfolk (girls, all ages)
[edit] Motto
Esse quam videri ("to be rather than to seem")
[edit] Notable former pupils
- Henry Iles (1871–1951), brass band promoter and entertainment entrepreneur
- Arthur Balfour, 1st Baron Riverdale (1873–1957), steelmaker and industrialist
- Tony Richardson (1928–1991), theatre and film director
- Andy Gray (born 1977), footballer
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