Auckland Grammar School

25 Mountain Road

The Auckland Grammar School is a secondary school for boys in Auckland, New Zealand. According to the school system in New Zealand boys are taught from Year 9 to 13, ie from age 12 on up to university. Built in 1916 Auckland Grammar School is one of the oldest and, with more than 2,200 students one of the largest schools in New Zealand and is also home to 120 boarding students. It was founded in 1850 and officially origin 1868. The main building is a listed building ( Historic Places Act 1993 ).

On July 27, 1988, the main building of the New Zealand Historic Places Trust under the number 4471 as a memorial of category 1 ( Historic Place Category I) was classified. In the same street also Stoneways, the landmarked former home of the famous New Zealand architect William Gummer is (1884-1966)

The school motto is "Per Angusta ad Augusta " ( Through depths consecrated heights) is also used by other schools. The school also uses the somewhat free translation Through difficulties to greatness.

Partner schools

• Taisei Junior and Senior High School, Fukuoka, Japan
• Epsom Girls ' Grammar School, Auckland, New Zealand

Well-known graduates and teachers

• Sam Webster (* 1991), cyclist
• Ben Atiga ( b. 1983 ), rugby national team
• Sir Thomas Bavin (1874-1941), 24th Prime Minister of New South Wales
• Hamish Carter (born 1971 ), 2004 Olympic Champion in Triathlon
• Jeff Crowe (born 1958 ), cricketer and umpire
• Martin Crowe (born 1962 ), cricketer
• Russell Crowe (born 1964 ), winner of the Academy Award (temporarily ) degree at Mount Roskill Grammar School
• John Drake (1959-2008), former national rugby player
• Sir Raymond Firth (1901-2002), social anthropologist
• Sir James Fletcher (1914-2007), industrialist and philanthropist
• Grant Fox (born 1962 ), former national rugby player
• Charles Goldie (1870-1947), artist
• Sir Doug Graham ( b. 1942 ), politician
• Sir Peter Gluckman ( born 1949 ), physician and scientist
• Sir Kenneth Hayr (1935-2001), Air Marshal, former Deputy Chief of the British Defence Staff
• Graham Henry ( born 1946 ), coach of the national rugby team
• Sir Edmund Hillary (1919-2008), first man to climb Mount Everest.
• Doug Howlett (born 1978 ), rugby players
• Jonathan Hunt ( b. 1938 ), Cabinet Minister, Speaker of the House, the High Commissioner in the United Kingdom
• Sir Vaughan Jones ( born 1952 ), winner of the Fields Medal
• Sir Hugh Kawharu (1927-2006), Māori scholar
• Sir Kenneth Keith ( b. 1937 ), Judge of the International Court of Justice
• Sir George Laking (1912-2008), diplomat
• Sir Graham Liggins (1926-2010), obstetrician and physiologist
• Sir Leslie Munro (1901-1974), former President of the General Assembly of the United Nations
• Andrew Niccol (born 1964 ), winner of the Academy Award, director, writer and producer.
• Matthew Ridge ( b. 1968 ), rugby players
• Jeremy Stanley ( b. 1975 ), rugby national team
• Sir Wilson Whineray (1935-2012), former captain of the national rugby team and businessman
• Kim Sinclair (born 1954 ), winner of the Academy Award 2010
• Graeme Revell ( b. 1955 ), composer of film and television music ( Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Æon Flux & CSI: Miami)
• Jonathan Coleman (born 1966 ), politician and minister.
• Denis Feeney, a professor of classical philology and Latin at Princeton University.
• Max Gimblett, ( born 1935 ), artist.
• Sir Duncan McMullin, former judge of the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals.
• Roger Moses, director of the Wellington College.
• Lockwood Smith ( born 1948 ), 28th Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives.
• Sir Francis Bell, (1851-1936), Prime Minister
• Sir Ernest Hyam Davis, (1872-1962), businessman, Mayor of Auckland from 1935 until 1941.
• Sir Roger Owen Douglas ( born 1937 ), politician, 35.Finanzminister
• Raoul Norman Franklin, doctor, 1978-1998 Vice Chancellor of City University in London
• Eric Halstead (1912-1991), politician and Minister
• Sir Graham Speight, (1921-2008), Judge of the Supreme Court.

School directors