Saint Felix School

Saint Felix School is a 2–18 mixed, independent, day and boarding school in Reydon, Southwold, Suffolk, England. It was founded in 1897 as a girls' school by Margaret Isabella Gardiner.

By September 1902, the present site of the school had been purchased and the first four boarding houses and teaching block completed. In 1910, the Gardiner Hall, Library, and Clough House were built. The school accommodates babies and toddlers in the St Felix Nursery, and children up to the age of 18 in the Sixth Form. The school offers boarding throughout the term, weekly, or 'flexi' boarding. The current head is Mr James Harrison.

Notable alumni 

 Jane Benham MBE – played a significant role in preserving Thames sailing barges
 Dorothea Braby – artist and illustrator
 Natalie Caine – woodwind player
 Constance Coltman – the first woman ordained to Christian ministry in Britain
 Nora David, Baroness David, politician and life peer
 Nick Griffin – Former BNP leader and MEP for North West England (1999–2014)

 Lilias Rider Haggard MBE, daughter of Sir Henry Rider Haggard and an author in her own right
 Norman Heatley – biochemist
 Emily Beatrix Coursolles Jones – novelist
 Nancy Lyle – tennis player
 Violet Helen Millar, later Countess Attlee, wife of Clement Attlee
 Mother Maribel of Wantage – Anglican nun and artist
 Anna Russell – singer and comedian
 Enid Russell-Smith DBE – civil servant
 Mary Snell-Hornby – translation scholar
 Constance Tipper – metallurgist and crystallographer
 Hannah Waterman – actress
 Phyllis Gardner – artist and dog breeder
 Stella Browne – feminist and abortion law reformer
 Katherine Laird Cox – model, magistrate

Notable staff 
 Anne Mustoe, headmistress from 1978 to 1987

See also 
 List of schools in Suffolk

References

External links 
 
 Profile on the ISC website

Category:Independent schools in Suffolk
Category:Boarding schools in Suffolk
Category:Educational institutions established in 1897
Category:1897 establishments in England
Category:Reydon