Boarding Governance Leadership and management, including links with parents Partnership with Leicester City Football Club In January 2015 Ratcliffe agreed a deal to educate 16 Thai students who had been selected by Leicester City FC to come to Leicester and who would benefit from regular exposure to the Academy facilities at Leicester City. Ratcliffe's Head of Boys' Boarding and former Director of Sport is ex-LCFC player, Phil Gilchrist Cricket ground The college cricket ground is used by the college cricket team. The first recorded use of the ground came in 1948, when Ratcliffe College played King Edward's School, Birmingham. The ground has also played host to a single List-A match, when the Leicestershire Cricket Board played Denmark in the 1st round of the 2003 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy which was played in 2002. Alumni Former pupils of Ratcliffe are known as Old Ratcliffians. They include: Terence Alexander, film and television actor, singer John Arnold, bishop Ian Bannen, noted Scottish actor and Oscar nominee for Best Supporting Actor (1965) Sir Peter Caruana, KCMG QC, former Chief Minister of Gibraltar Louis Deacon, England and Tigers rugby player Willie Doyle, Irish Jesuit Priest (killed in action during World War I) François Grosjean, psycholinguist and researcher on bilingualism Tim Knox, Director of the Royal Collection Joseph Lauwerys, prominent educationalist who helped to found UNESCO Patrick McGoohan, American-born actor of Irish parentage who rose to fame in the British film and TV industry: starring in the 1960s television series Danger Man and cult classic The Prisoner. Kevin Myers. Patrick Nuttgens, noted architect, CBE Sir Gordon Reece, former advisor to Margaret Thatcher Michael Shipster, diplomat The Rt. Hon Lord St John of Fawsley, PC, former Conservative minister under Margaret Thatcher Richard Wallace, Editor of the Daily Mirror Tim Wilson, finalist of The Circle Luke Wright, Sussex CCC, and England cricketer. Martine Warmann, powerlifter References Bibliography Ratcliffe College 1847–1947 edited by Rev. C. R. Leetham with an Appendix at the back entitled 'Alphabetical List of Students 1847–1950' External links School Website Profile on the ISC website Private schools in Leicestershire Member schools of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference Educational institutions established in 1845 Cricket grounds in Leicestershire 1845 establishments in England Roman Catholic private schools in the Diocese of Nottingham Boarding schools in Leicestershire Catholic boarding schools in England Sports venues completed in 1948