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PooooooooooottttttrrrrriiiiiicccccckkkkkkSandford Park School is a small private, non-denominational, co-educational secondary school, located in the inner suburbs in Dublin, Ireland. It was founded in 1922.HistorySandford Park School is a small co-educational private, non-denominational school and was established on the 12th of September 1922. Its first headmaster was Alfred Le Peton, who had been the joint headmaster with Ernest Exshaw of Earlsfort House School. The joint headmasters of Earlsfort House moved the school from city centre to the suburbs. The school was previously an all boys school but decided to go co-ed in 2013 which became a great success and the school grew.School principals Gwynn Seton Bradshaw Mack 1922-1931 Arthur Douglas Cordner 1934-46 Major P.G. Wormell 1946-53 Maurice Wilkins (Acting Headmaster) 1953-54 Trevor Dagg 1954-1960, brother of Barbara Cross (wife of James Richard Cross) Dr Hector Rex Cathcart 1960-1967 Trevor Dagg 1967-1980 Ian Steepe 1980-1985 William (Bill) R. Tector 1985-1990 Dr John Harris 1990-1996 Michael Whelan 1996-2003 Edith Byrne 2003–presentNotable past pupils Conor Cruise O'Brien, diplomat, Labour Party politician, writer and academic Justin Keating, politician and former Labour Party cabinet minister Graham Knuttel, painter and sculptor Ham Lambert, international cricketer, rugby player and rugby referee John Neill, Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin 2002–2011 Owen Sheehy-Skeffington, socialist and pacifist Patrick Rooke (born 1955), Bishop of Tuam, Killala, and Achonry
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