Harrow School - whose alumni include World War II British prime minister Winston Churchill and India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru - is to open a school on a former military site in the Tuen Mun district.

In a break with tradition, the school is to be coeducational unlike Harrow School in west London, which is all boys. The school's old boys also include the poet Lord Byron and pop singer James Blunt.

The Hong Kong school would have places for around 1,200 primary and secondary students with boarding offered in the senior section.

It would be Harrow's third school in Asia after its first international branch was established in Bangkok in 1998 and its second Asian school was set up in Beijing in 2005.

For more information about Harrow in Hong Kong,  please read The Standard's article .