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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