- About MCS
MCS ranks among the top independent secondary schools in The Sunday Times Schools Guide 2024, placed seventh nationally and third in the Southeast. - Admissions
Approximately 1 in 10 pupils receive a bursary or scholarship. We are committed to ensuring an MCS education is open to the brightest pupils, no matter their personal circumstances.
- Junior School
“The Junior School is a very busy and happy school and here, a smile goes a long way.”
MCS ranks among the top independent secondary schools in The Sunday Times Schools Guide 2024, placed seventh nationally and third in the Southeast.
- Senior School
39 of our pupils achieved 10 or more 8 or 9 grades in 2023. - Sixth Form
Over 25% of our Sixth Form pupils take up places at Oxford and Cambridge every year.
- Supporting MCS
Your donations contribute over £150,000 a year to bursaries as well as building an endowment to fund bursaries for the future.
39 of our pupils achieved 10 or more 8 or 9 grades in 2023.
Your donations contribute over £150,000 a year to bursaries as well as building an - About MCS
MCS ranks among the top independent secondary schools in The Sunday Times Schools Guide 2024, placed seventh nationally and third in the Southeast.
- Admissions
Approximately 1 in 10 pupils receive a bursary or scholarship. We are committed to ensuring an MCS education is open to the brightest pupils, no matter their personal circumstances.
- Junior School
“The Junior School is a very busy and happy school and here, a smile goes a long way.”
- Senior School
39 of our pupils achieved 10 or more 8 or 9 grades in 2023.
- Sixth Form
Over 25% of our Sixth Form pupils take up places at Oxford and Cambridge every year.
- Supporting MCS
Your donations contribute over £150,000 a year to bursaries as well as building an endowment to fund bursaries for the future.
Tim sadly passed away on 29 September 2017. His brother, fellow OW Desmond (1961) supplied the following words:
After leaving Magdalen College School (1954-1963), where he notably developed the electrical system in the Big School roof, Tim Cecil went on to Exeter College Oxford and graduated in Chemistry.
He initially worked as an engineer, and then became heavily involved in running coach trips abroad, for example to Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, Russia, India, Nepal and elsewhere. He set up his own independent bus company (based near Luton), with local school and community runs, as well as more exotic trips overseas. The company expanded, and he was personally involved in every aspect of the business – mechanical, financial and caring staff management.
He married Ursula Rotton, an artist/potter whom he met on a coach trip to Russia and supported her in her artistic work. They had two sons, Rob and Tom, both now married with children of their own. It remains a close-knit family.
In 2003 Tim sold his thriving bus company, and they moved to Dinan in Brittany. He liked the French way of life, not to mention the local oysters and wine. He and Ursula restored their beautiful old house on the edge of the historic town centre. They became very integrated into the local community, she through her pottery and he as Treasurer of the Dinan Rotary Club for many years. In his final weeks, when he was suffering from cancer and a stroke, their local French friends were immensely supportive, as were Rob, Tom and their families.
He loved music, playing the trumpet, history, life, jokes and people. All of these facets of his personality were movingly represented at his funeral at Saint-Pierre-de-Plesguen in Brittany on 6 October 2017, when a large number of family and friends, British and French, gathered to celebrate his life.
