Regent College, Leicester



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.

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 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 Cooklin, poet and novelist (1942–49)
 * Ruth Henig, Baroness Henig 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
 * Dinah Prentice
 * Cicely Ridley 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 (-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 Waddington, Guardian journalist and feminist (1918–25)
 * Linda Stratmann, true crime writer (1959–1964)

Former teachers

 * Ruth Bird, historian
 * Clara Collet, acquaintance of Karl Marx and social reformer for women's working conditions (taught from 1878–85)
 * Jamie Gambin, mathematics