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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.
The Director of Chapel Music at Winchester College is Howard Ionascu (as of December 2018), previously Director of the Junior Academy at the Royal Academy of Music. Previous directors include David Hurley (2017–2018), Malcolm Archer (2007–2017), Christopher Tolley (1992–2007), Julian Smith (1977–1992) and Raymond Humphrey (1970–1977).
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 first recorded headmaster after the foundation of the college, John Melton, had been presented by William of Wykeham to the mastership of this hospital in 1393 shortly before his retirement. [4] On 3 July 1441 Henry VI went for a weekend visit to Winchester College to see the school for himself. Here he seems to have been so much impressed ...
It is located in the historic grounds of Winchester College, with evidence suggesting cricket in Winchester dates back to the 17th century. [1] The present ground, which is also known as New Field or Ridding Field , dates from 1869 when the then headmaster George Ridding bought land south of "meads", the original venue for college cricket, and ...
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Winchester College was founded by William of Wykeham in 1382. He was a wealthy and powerful figure, as he was both Bishop of Winchester and Chancellor of England . The foundation was for a school to enable 70 boys, sons of poor clergymen, to have a free education; they might go on to have a university education the school's sister foundation ...