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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.
Old Wykehamists are former pupils of Winchester College, so called in memory of the school's founder, William of Wykeham. [ 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 ...
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 ...
John Leonard Thorn. John Leonard Thorn (28 April 1925 – 20 October 2023) was an English schoolmaster, writer and educational consultant. He was headmaster of Repton School from 1961 to 1968 and then of Winchester College until 1985.
The other Clarendon schools (Eton College, St Paul's School, Merchant Taylors' School and Westminster School) have other affiliations. In 2003, as part of a wider investigation into alleged fee fixing at UK independent schools, the Office of Fair Trading published an e-mail exchange between the bursars of Rugby Group schools containing detailed ...
James Sabben-Clare was the son of Ernest Sabben-Clare. [1] Ernest's father, brought up by a single mother, had won a free education at Winchester College, and became the headmaster of Bishop Wordsworth's School, Salisbury and then of Leeds Grammar School. [2]
PHOTO: De'Shawn Washington, 2024 MA Teacher of the Year, delivers a speech on teacher retention and recruitment to an audience of MA Superintendents and School Committee Board members at the M.A.S ...
The Winchester Public Schools serve the city of Winchester, Virginia. The school division was founded in 1919. There are eight schools and about 3500 students. John Handley High School, grades 9–12. This school has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1998 and is named for its founder, Judge John Handley. [1]