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Alex Grove, rugby player for Worcester Warriors and Scotland national rugby union team; A. G. Guillemard, rugby union international who represented England in the first international rugby match in 1871 [11] and later president of the Rugby Football Union. Thomas Hale (1829–1899), first-class cricketer; Octavius Hanbury (1826–1882), first ...
On 2 June 1920 Rendcomb College opened with twelve boys, James Herbert Simpson (formerly a House Master at Rugby School) at the helm as Headmaster and Noel Wills as Chair of Governors. [1] The two men shaped the path of the School for a little over seven years and their relationship was founded on mutual respect and affection. [2]
The son of the athlete and colonial administrator Eric Hussey and his wife, Christine Elizabeth Morley, Marmaduke Hussey was educated at Rugby School and Trinity College, Oxford. He served in the Grenadier Guards in the Second World War and was severely injured and captured at Anzio , having to have a leg amputated while a prisoner-of-war ...
Rugby School is a private boarding school for pupils aged 13–18, located in Rugby, Warwickshire, England, within the UK. [ 1 ] Founded in 1567 as a free grammar school for local boys, it is one of the oldest independent schools in Britain. [ 2 ]
Thomas Arnold (13 June 1795 – 12 June 1842) was an English educator and historian. He was an early supporter of the Broad Church Anglican movement. As headmaster of Rugby School from 1828 to 1841, he introduced several reforms that were widely copied by other noted public schools.
Bilton Grange is commonly recognised as the feeder to Rugby School although over half of each leaving yeargroup of 13-year-olds go on to other public schools such as Uppingham School, Eton College and Oundle School. In September 2019 the school announced that it was merging with Rugby School as one charity, but remaining a separate, autonomous ...
Moberly was born in Warwickshire. Her father, Revd Charles Edward Moberly, [1] taught at Rugby School as an assistant master and sometime composer. [2] Her mother was Catherine (born Temple) and Moberly's uncle was Frederick Temple, who was the head of Rugby School (for boys) between 1858 and 1869.
The school is named after Lawrence Sheriff, the Elizabethan founder of Rugby School. The school was founded in 1878, in order to continue Sheriff's original bequest for a free grammar school for the boys of Rugby and surrounding villages, which had originally been fulfilled by Rugby School, until the latter moved to become a fee-paying public ...