sentences:  Stouts Hill was the birthplace reputedly of the Gloucestershire historian, Samuel Rudder, and of the distinguished Persian scholar Edward Granville Browne.From 1935 until 1979 it was let for use as a private boys' preparatory school in which some 100 pupils were boarders.Notable former pupils of the school include Stephen Fry, who makes a detailed reference to the school in his autobiography, "Moab Is My Washpot", and Captain Mark Phillips, former husband of Anne, the Princess Royal.