The school was founded in 1889 by Dr. Cecil Reddie a well-known British scholar and educator. Advocating that understanding and action are the goals of learning rather than rote knowledge,Dr. Cecil Reddie emphasized the function of school in cultivating pupils’ comprehensive quality, lifelong learning abilities and social responsibilities.
Dr. Cecil Reddie (1858/10-1932/2) Founder of the New Educational Movement

Neil Roskilly as chief executive of the Independent Schools Association. With 40 years of education experience include teaching in both the UK state and independent sectors, international schools, GCSE and A-level public examining, state and independent sector governance, school inspection, private school headship. He was one of the longest serving directors of the Independent Schools Council and represented English independent schools on the General Teaching Council for England, where his work included chairing teacher disciplinary panels and national programme guidance.

David Brown is co-founder and Group President of Oxford International, the UK’s largest private education groups, working with International students across a range of programmes.

• Professor Simon Johnson, an Old Abbotsholmian of Abbotsholme School, won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics jointly with Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson! His remarkable achievements once again confirm the educational philosophy of Abbotsholme School in cultivating future leaders;
• Dr. Robin Gandy, a well-known mathematician and logician, a good partner and close friend of Alan Turing, Oxford University named a building after him in memory of his outstanding contributions to mathematics and code deciphering;
• Dr. Roger Altounyan, a renowned physicist and pharmacologist who graduated from Cambridge University and discovered sodium cromoglycate;
• Sir Samuel Phillips Bedson, a renowned biologist, professor of Durham University;
• Muir Wood, President of the British International Tunnelling Association, designed the world's second longest water supply system – the 80-kilometre-long Orange–Fish River tunnel in South Africa;
• Giles Lytton Strachey, the famous British biographer , a representative writer of 20th-century biographical literature along with Moroya in France and Zweig in Germany.