page_title: Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood
section_title: Prefect Body
hierarchical_section_title: Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood / Present day / Prefect Body
caption_attribution_description: English: Merchant Taylors' School Cricket
context_page_description: Merchant Taylors' School is a British independent day school for boys. Since 1933 it has been on 285 acres of grounds at Sandy Lodge in the Three Rivers district of Hertfordshire.
  Founded in 1561 by Sir Thomas White, Sir Richard Hilles, Emanuel Lucar and Stephen Hales, it was one of the nine English public schools investigated by the Clarendon Commission set up in 1861, but successfully argued that it should be omitted from the Public Schools Act 1868, as did St Paul's School, London, the other day school investigated by the Clarendon Commission.
  The school caters for 1100 students between the ages of 11 and 18. The school is now an all-through school from age 3 to 18 after merger with Northwood Prep School in 2015.
  The school's old boys, called OMTs, include naturalists, poets, academics, politicians, authors, sportsmen, actors, and military figures, including three winners of the Victoria Cross award. OMTs include Lancelot Andrewes, the translator of the King James’ Bible; John Walter, founding editor of The Times; John Sulston, Nobel laureate in Physiology and Medicine; E. H.
context_section_description: The school prefect body (JCR) is drawn from the Upper Sixth Form, and is made up of Monitors and Prompters. Monitors are effectively head prefects, and number about 11. They are headed by the Head Monitor, who is supported by two Second Monitors and a Senior Monitor. The remainder of the JCR (Prompters) number roughly 40, and ensure good order is kept in school. Although the powers and responsibilities of the JCR have declined over recent decades, they still retain a few privileges. For instance, members of the JCR are allowed to wear pinstriped shirts and jackets with silver buttons, whilst Monitors are allowed to wear blue, gold-buttoned blazers with grey trousers.
  In addition, within each house there is a number of House Prefects, appointed by the Head of House. They help organise House events and competitions within school.
caption: Cricket at Merchant Taylors'
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