Regent College was a sixth form college in Leicester , England. The college was formed in 1976 as the Wyggeston Collegiate Sixth Form College and was renamed Regent College in 1996. It was merged into the nearby Wyggeston and Queen Elizabeth I College in 2018.
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Regent College playing fields, providing camping space for festival goers attending the Big Session , an annual folk festival held at the nearby De Montfort Hall
Wyggeston Girls' Grammar School
Biddy Baxter MBE, creator of Blue Peter (1944–51)
Fiona Chesterton, Editor from 1987-89 of London Plus , and from 1989-91 of Newsroom South East , Controller of Adult Learning from 1998-2003 at the BBC (1963–70)
Joanna David née Hacking , actress, married since 2004 to Edward Fox (actor) , and mother of Emilia Fox and Freddie Fox
Enid Essame, Headmistress from 1943-71 of Queenswood School (1918-23)
Elaine Feinstein née Cooklin , poet and novelist (1942–49)
Ruth Henig, Baroness Henig née Munzer , Chairman from 2007-13 of the Security Industry Authority (1955–62)
Faith Jaques , illustrated Roald Dahl books, designed the Royal Mail 1978 Christmas stamps
Helen Koppell , Olympic diver in the 1970s, moved to Canada as an anaesthetist
Dinah Nichols CB, Chair from 2012-16 of Keep Britain Tidy [1]
Dinah Prentice
Cicely Ridley née Taylor , mathematician
Prof Bhupinder Sandhu OBE FRCP FRCPCH , consultant paediatric gastroenterologist , Head of the Gastroenterology Unit since 1988 at the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children [2] (-1969)
Mary Scholes (Haggart) OBE, Chief Area Nursing Officer from 1973-83 of Tayside Health Board, Chairman from 1980-84 of the Scottish National Board for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting (since 2002, part of the Nursing and Midwifery Council ) (1935–40)
Mary Stott née Waddington , Guardian journalist and feminist (1918–25)
Linda Stratmann , true crime writer (1959–1964)
Ruth Bird , historian
Clara Collet , acquaintance of Karl Marx and social reformer for women's working conditions (taught from 1878–85)
Jamie Gambin , mathematics