competitions in Magistrates' Courts, Stock Market Challenge, Girls' Rugby, Design and Construction, and Dance. Notable alumni Abersychan Comprehensive School Ryan Doble - footballer David Llewellyn - novelist Mark Taylor - rugby union player Abersychan Grammar School Prof Geoffrey Arthur, professor of veterinary surgery from 1974 to 1979 at the University of Bristol, and professor of veterinary obstetrics and diseases of reproduction from 1965 to 1973 at the Royal Veterinary College Sarah Clark, Bishop of Jarrow in the Church of England Allen Forward - international rugby player Roy Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Hillhead - founder of Social Democrat Party, and Labour MP from 1950 to 1977 for Birmingham Stechford, and SDP MP from 1982 to 1987 for Glasgow Hillhead Rear-Admiral Brinley Morgan CB, director from 1970 to 1975 of the Naval Education Service Robert Ryder, pathologist who found the link between emphysema and coal dust References External links Abersychan Comprehensive School News items Schoolgirl murdered in 2002 Secondary schools in Torfaen