Roedean School
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Roedean School is an independent girls' school in Brighton, England.
It was founded in 1885 by three of the Lawrence sisters: Penelope, Millicent, and Dorothy Lawrence. In 1898, the school moved to its present site on the Sussex Downs overlooking the sea. The school buildings are set on a forty-acre site near Brighton.
A sister school, also called Roedean School and co-founded by the youngest Lawrence sister, Theresa, is located in South Africa.
[edit] Notable Old Girls
Past pupils are known as Old Roedeanians.
- Rebecca Hall
- Honeysuckle Weeks-British actress
- Dame Margaret Cole
- Verity Lambert
- Rhona Mitra who was expelled
- Phyllis Pearsall
- Jill Balcon
- Sarah Miles
- Cicely Saunders
- Sheila Huftel
- Adèle Geras
- Katharine Whitehorn
- Tamara Abukhadra
- Perdita Weeks
- Tanya Streeter