![]() “Years later he was cast in Pirates of the Carribean,” the programme observed. And in his final year he played the leading lady in The Pirates of Penzance. According to a Dragon Christmas charity sale programme, for which Hollander performed the opening address, he won the title role of Oliver in the school play on account of his loud voice (with Tim Luke, once senior advisor to David Cameron on business, trade and innovation, playing one of Fagin’s boys). “I don’t remember ‘learning’ anything, and yet I learned everything.” Hollander, who also went on to Cambridge, has credited the atmosphere of the school with his love of acting. “It was an absolute riot,” he told Run Riot magazine of his time there. Hiddleston, the youngest of the three, left in 1994 to go on to Eton and then, naturally, Cambridge. Photograph: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images for Bafta LA As well as the Night Manager trio, actors who have spewed forth from the Dragon’s mouth include Emma Watson, Jack Davenport, Hugh Dancy, Dom Joly, Jack Whitehall and presumably lots of actors we haven’t heard of called Tom, Jack, Hugh, or Emma.Įmma Watson also attended Dragon School. Lots of politicians – Hugh Gaitskell, Baroness Young, Rory Stewart – and sportsmen including Tim Henman. Journalists include Peter Jay, David Shukman and Rageh Omaar. More than a third of preparatory pupils board, with 16% from British families living abroad and 4% foreign nationals from all over the world.Īlumni, or in school parlance “Eminent Dragons”, include writers John Betjeman, Antonia Fraser and Alain de Botton. Termly fees are £9,340 for boarding and £6,480 for day attendance. Run for years by one family, disappointingly called Lynam not Dragon, its vibe according to their website is “robust informality and relaxed rigour”. Welcome to Dragon School, a co-educational boarding and day school founded by a group of Oxford University dons for their own children in 1877 (which must be the Oxford Dictionary definition of elitist). ![]()
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