Sixth form college in Leicester, England
Regent College playing fields, providing camping space for festival goers attending
the Big Session , an annual folk festival held at the nearby
De Montfort Hall
Regent College was a
sixth form college in
Leicester , England. The college was formed in 1976 as the Wyggeston Collegiate Sixth Form College and was renamed Regent College in 1996. It was merged into the nearby
Wyggeston and Queen Elizabeth I College in 2018.
Alumni
Wyggeston Girls' Grammar School
Biddy Baxter MBE, creator of
Blue Peter (1944–51)
Fiona Chesterton, Editor from 1987-89 of
London Plus , and from 1989-91 of
Newsroom South East , Controller of Adult Learning from 1998-2003 at the BBC (1963–70)
Joanna David
née Hacking , actress, married since 2004 to
Edward Fox (actor) , and mother of
Emilia Fox and
Freddie Fox
Enid Essame, Headmistress from 1943-71 of
Queenswood School (1918-23)
Elaine Feinstein
née Cooklin , poet and novelist (1942–49)
Ruth Henig, Baroness Henig
née Munzer , Chairman from 2007-13 of the
Security Industry Authority (1955–62)
Faith Jaques , illustrated
Roald Dahl books
Helen Koppell , Olympic diver in the 1970s, moved to Canada as an anaesthetist
Dinah Nichols CB, Chair from 2012-16 of
Keep Britain Tidy
[1]
Dinah Prentice
Cicely Ridley , mathematician
Prof Bhupinder Sandhu OBE
FRCP
FRCPCH , consultant paediatric
gastroenterologist , Head of the Gastroenterology Unit since 1988 at the
Bristol Royal Hospital for Children
[2] (-1969)
Mary Scholes (Haggart) OBE, Chief Area Nursing Officer from 1973-83 of Tayside Health Board, Chairman from 1980-84 of the Scottish National Board for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting (since 2002, part of the
Nursing and Midwifery Council ) (1935–40)
Mary Stott
née Waddington , Guardian journalist and feminist (1918–25)
Linda Stratmann , true crime writer (1959–1964)
Former teachers
References
External links
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