Huddersfield New College

Huddersfield College was founded in 1839. Henry Ernest Atkins, the chess master, was principal from 1909 to 1936.

Huddersfield New College in 2005, as viewed from New Hey Road. Both the original brick construction, and the more modern partial replacement can be seen

Huddersfield New College was founded in 1958 when the existing Huddersfield College was merged with Hillhouse Technical School to form a new boys' grammar school at a new campus at Salendine Nook with 950 boys. In 1959, the girls-only Longley Technical High School moved to the campus, with a new school called Huddersfield High School also on New Hey Road with 700 girls run by Huddersfield Education Committee. Princess Margaret opened the girls' school on the campus on 14 November 1958.[2] The whole site, including Salendine Nook High School, had cost £1 million. Sir Edward Boyle opened Huddersfield New College on 26 March 1958.

The last admission of 11-year-olds was in 1972, and the college then began a gradual transition from a boys only grammar school to a co-educational sixth form college. During the dissolution of the grammar schools under Harold Wilson's watch (an old boy of the nearby Royds Hall Grammar School), he infamously said that grammar schools would be dismantled over his dead body.[3] However the sixth form college has retained much of the academic-minded ethos of his former school.

It became a sixth form college when the two grammar schools, Huddersfield New College and Huddersfield High School, gradually merged from 1973. In 1974 it was administered by Kirklees Metropolitan Council until 1993 when funded by the FEFC. In 2001 it was administered by West Yorkshire LSC, whose executive director was Margaret Coleman, a former principal of the college.

• Roger Berry, Labour MP from 1992 to 2010 for Kingswood
• Professor Bob Cryan, vice-chancellor of the University of Huddersfield
• James Duddridge, Conservative MP since 2005 for Rochford and Southend East
• Ian Jagger, clergyman and Archdeacon of Durham
• Zöe Lucker, actress[6]
• Michael Moore, Fellow of the Royal Society and professor of theoretical physics at the University of Manchester[7]
• George Sheldrick, Professor of Structural Chemistry since 1978 at the University of Göttingen

• Peter Armitage CBE, statistician and President of the Royal Statistical Society from 1982 to 1984, and Professor of Applied Statistics from 1976 to 1990 at the University of Oxford
• Sir William Broadbent, President from 1895 to 1896 of the Neurological Society and from 1887 to 1888 of the Clinical Society, and father of Walter Broadbent
• Joseph Coates, Australian schoolmaster and cricketer.
• Roger Fletcher, Professor of Mathematics from 1993 to 2005 at the University of Dundee
• Geoffrey Fryer FRS, freshwater biologist
• Sir Amos Brook Hirst OBE, chairman from 1941 to 1955 of The Football Association, and president of Huddersfield Town F.C.[8]
• David Liddiment, Director of Programmes at ITV from 1997 to 2002, and member of the BBC Trust
• Frederick Mallalieu, Liberal MP for Colne Valley from 1916 to 1922
• Ali Mazrui, Kenyan historian and political scientist[9]
• Sir William Middlebrook, Liberal MP from 1908 to 1922 for Leeds South
• Walter Parratt, organist
• Nicholas Tate CBE, Chief Executive from 1997 to 2000 of the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority
• Sir Thomas Palmer Whittaker, Liberal MP from 1882 to 1919 for Spen Valley
• William Willis, Liberal MP from 1880 to 1885 for Colchester
• Sir German Sims Woodhead, President of the Royal Medical Society in 1878 and the Royal Microscopical Society from 1890 to 1899

• Rt Rev David Bonser, Bishop of Bolton from 1991 to 1999