Coleraine Academical Institution

Coleraine Academical Institution (CAI and styled locally as Coleraine Inst) was a voluntary grammar school for boys in Coleraine, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland.

For the current Coleraine co-ed school, see Coleraine Grammar School.
Coleraine Academical Institution
Address
Castlerock Road

Coleraine
,
County Londonderry
,
BT51 3LA

Northern Ireland
Coordinates55.136°N 6.686°W / 55.136; -6.686
Information
TypeVoluntary grammar school
MottoΕως Hμερα Εστιη[1]
(Work while it is day)
Established1860 (1860)
Closed2015 (2015)
Local authorityNEELB
GenderBoys
Age range11–19
Enrolmentc. 750
Campus size70-acre (28 ha)
Houses
  • White
  • Hunter
  • Houston
  • Clarke
Colour(s)Maroon, White and Navy             
PublicationThe Inst
AffiliationHeadmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference
Websitewww.colerainegrammar.com

Coleraine Academical Institution occupied a 70-acre (28 ha) site on the Castlerock Road, where it was founded in 1860. It was, for many years, a boarding school until the boarding department closed in 1999. It was one of eight Northern Irish schools represented on the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC). The school had an enrolment of 778 pupils, aged 11–19, as of 2012. The school was generally regarded for its high academic standards and extensive sporting facilities, including 33-acre (13 ha) playing fields, indoor swimming pool, boathouse, rugby pavilion, sports pavilion and gymnasium. The school has an extensive past pupil organisation, "The Coleraine Old Boys' Association", which has several branches across the world.

Coleraine Inst was nine times winner of the Ulster Schools Cup, the world's second-oldest rugby competition, in which it competed every year since 1876.

As part of a general re-organisation of schools in the Coleraine area over a number of years,[2] Coleraine Academical Institution was merged in September 2015 with Coleraine High School on Coleraine's Lodge Road and became a fully boys' and girls' grammar school called Coleraine Grammar School.[3]

Headmasters

Over the years the school has had nine headmasters.

  • (1860–1870) Alex Waugh Young was CAI's founding principal and very little is known of him.
  • (1870–1915) Thomas Galway Houston, OBE, MA, FRSAI Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland served the school for 45 years, enjoying a long retirement in Portstewart until his death in 1939 at the age of 96. Houston served as a member of the Senate in the Stormont Parliament for Queen's University, Belfast.[4]
  • (1915–1927) Thomas James Beare – affectionately known as "Tommy John" – had a rather shorter tenure in office, until his premature retirement on health grounds in 1927.
  • (1927–1955) Major William White – "The Chief" to generations of boys who both admired and feared him.
  • (1955–1979) Dr George Humphreys, by whom the major physical expansion of the school was guided. Previously on the staff at Campbell College, Belfast, it was during his Headmastership that Inst became an H.M.C. school.
  • (1979–1984) Dr Robert F. J. Rodgers, former headmaster of Bangor Grammar School, was headmaster of Inst until his appointment as Principal of Stranmillis Training College, Belfast.
  • (1984–2003) R. Stanley Forsythe was appointed following a ten-year period as headmaster of The Royal School, Dungannon and remained in post until retirement.
  • (2004–2007) Leonard F. Quigg was the first headmaster in the school's history to have been promoted 'from within the ranks'. Quigg served as an assistant master, Head of English, Senior Master, as both junior and senior Vice-Principal before his appointment as headmaster in January 2004. Mr Quigg retired in 2007.
  • (2007–2015) Dr David Carruthers is CAI's current headmaster. He was previously the Head of Mathematics at Royal Belfast Academical Institution.[5]

Notable alumni

References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 5 April 2010. Retrieved 13 February 2010.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. "Belfast schools 'on move' as part of education shake-up". The Belfast Telegraph, by Lindsay Fergus 27 February 2013
  3. "New school name announced". Coleraine Times
  4. http://www.lennonwylie.co.uk/CampbellCollegeRegisterInfo.htm
  5. School history Archived 9 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  6. Cullen, Pamela V., "A Stranger in Blood: The Case Files on Dr John Bodkin Adams", London, Elliott & Thompson, 2006, ISBN 1-904027-19-9
  7. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 8 September 2012. Retrieved 19 January 2008.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  8. British International Rowing Office
  9. Irish Times
  10. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 21 November 2008. Retrieved 21 December 2008.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  11. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 21 November 2008. Retrieved 21 December 2008.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  12. http://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/scottish-politics/analysis-snp-bucks-trend-for-privately-educated-mps.126940798
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