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Winchester College is an English public school (a long-established fee-charging boarding school for pupils aged 13–18) with some provision for day attendees, in Winchester, Hampshire, England. It was founded by William of Wykeham in 1382 as a feeder school for New College, Oxford , and has existed in its present location ever since.
The "School" building, 17th century. As the college was a religious as well as educational establishment, it was threatened with closure during Henry VIII's reign. In 1535, a visitation was made to assess the college's assets, after which some of Winchester's valuable land assets near London were seized and exchanged for assets of similar size elsewhere in the country, depriving the college of ...
BBC Radio 4 broadcaster - "Thought for the Day" Occasional guest speaker of the Jewish Gay and Lesbian Group and a patron of Centred (formerly Kairos). Autobiography Hitchhiking to Heaven 2004 [1]: 49 Ambrose Griffiths: 1946: Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle: Abbot of Ampleforth Abbey [3]: 192 Ronald Gordon: 1945: Bishop of Portsmouth, Bishop of ...
[1] [2] He was Bishop of Winchester and Lord Chancellor of England. He used the wealth these positions gave him to establish both the school in 1382 and a university college, New College, Oxford, in 1379; both of them were set up to provide an education for 70 scholars. Winchester College opened in 1394. [3]
James too was educated at Winchester College, winning the top scholarship to gain a fully-funded place there in 1954. [1] [3] [2] He won another scholarship to Winchester College's sister foundation, New College, Oxford. At the University of Oxford he gained a double first class degree in mods and greats, a humanities course centred on Latin ...
The Trusty Servant is an emblematic figure in a painting at Winchester College and the name of the college's alumni magazine. The wall-painting called The Trusty Servant was painted by John Hoskins in 1579. [1] It was reworked by William Cave in 1809, giving the painting now on display there. [2] It hangs outside the college's kitchen. [3]
Arms of William Waynflete: Lozengy ermine and sable, on a chief of the second three lilies argent William Waynflete (c. 1398 [a] – 11 August 1486), born William Patten, was Headmaster of Winchester College (1429–1441), Provost of Eton College (1442–1447), Bishop of Winchester (1447–1486) and Lord Chancellor of England (1456–1460).
"Winchester is often mentioned alongside Harrow School and Eton College as one of Britain's three most famous public schools." Ok fame is perhaps subjective and I'm not sure what evidence could be gathered for this purpose, but I would think I am right in saying that Rugby school should be in here, and I wouldn't be surprised if its fame is not greater than that of Winchester, primarily ...