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The secondary school is the only surviving member in the UK of a commercial chain of schools in the British Isles and North America founded by John Robert Gregg, an Irish-born American, originally to teach his method of shorthand.

[citation needed] In the 1920s it joined the Gregg chain and moved to Grosvenor Square in the Regency district of the city.

[3] The school's alumni include Millvina Dean, last survivor of the RMS Titanic, and Sally Matthews, British opera singer.

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