The current four House system of Abney, Davys, Pulteney and Yates was established in 1991 but echos the deep history of the School. Each House name celebrates an extraordinary character who was educated in the School’s original home in the churchyard of the Parish Church and dating back as far as 1590.
Thomas Abney lived in Derbyshire and was just 7 when in 1646 his father decided to send him to Loughborough Grammar School whilst under the care of his aunt. He did not go to university but headed instead to London and 50 years later, having survived both the plague and the fire, became the first Governor of the Bank of England then Mayor of London and then our first MP.
Peter Gacs
Assistant Housemaster