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A statue of Henry VI, the college's founder, in the school yard and Lupton's Tower (background) A 1690 engraving of Eton College by David Loggan. Eton College was founded by Henry VI as a charity school to provide free education to 70 poor boys who would then go on to King's College, Cambridge, founded by the same king
Eton College (1440) King's College School, Cambridge (1441) City of London School (1442) St Dunstan's College (earlier than 1446) Bridlington School (1447) Hartismere School (founded 1451) St. Bartholomew's School, Newbury (1466) Bromsgrove School (record of a chantry school 1476, re-founded 1553) Magdalen College School, Oxford (1480)
College Year of foundation William of Durham: University College [1] 1249 John I de Balliol: Balliol College: 1263 Walter de Merton: Merton College: 1264 Walter de Stapledon, Bishop of Exeter: Exeter College: 1314 Adam de Brome: Oriel College: 1324 Robert de Eglesfield, chaplain of Queen Philippa: Queen's College: 1341 William of Wykeham: New ...
At Eton College, a King's Scholar (known as a "Colleger" or colloquially as a "tug") is one who has passed the College Election examination and has been awarded a Foundation Scholarship and admitted into a house known as "College", the premises of which are situated within the original ancient purpose-built college buildings.
Under the influence of Archbishop Chichele (who had himself founded two colleges in imitation of Wykeham); Thomas Bekynton, the king's secretary and privy seal; and other Wykehamists, Henry VI, on 11 October 1440, founded, in imitation of Winchester College, a college in the parish church of Eton by Windsor (not far from his own birthplace ...
When Prince William enrolled at Eton College in 1995, he became the first senior royal to enroll in the school in Berkshire, England. His father, Prince Charles, and grandfather, Prince Philip ...
The College Grammar School, Bristol Founded and endowed in the Lower College Green Redcliff Grammar School, Bristol Queen Elizabeth's Free Grammar and Writing School; Redcliffe Endowed Boys' School; St Mary Redcliffe and Temple School: 30 June 1571 Comprehensive Academy Founded and endowed in the east end of Saint Mary's Crypt, Redcliff Church.
She founded a chantry and a grammar school at Newland in Gloucestershire after her husband died. Henry VI had founded Eton College in 1440 linking a chantry to a school and Greyndour was an early example of a similar establishment. Katherine Berkeley, Lady Margaret Beaufort and Greyndour were all early examples of women founding schools. [2]