Shrewsbury School

52.7038 - 2.7622Koordinaten: 52 ° 42 ' 14 " N, 2 ° 45' 44 " W

The Shrewsbury School was founded in 1552 by a Royal Charter of King Edward VI by Adam Jones in the town of Shrewsbury. The emblem of the school is the heraldic Edward VI. The school was one of nine schools that have been mentioned in the Public Schools Act of 1868. The school has around 680 students of which about 130 students not living in the boarding school today. The students are admitted with 13 years on the basis of an aptitude test. Since 2008, students may be admitted to the school.

The school was housed at its foundation in three wooden houses. Of the original buildings now only Riggs Hall is preserved. The school was directed at its inception instrumental in Calvinism and wealthy Protestant family from Shrewsbury, Shropshire and North Wales, sent their sons to school. The stone school buildings were completed by 1630 and the school she took up in 1882 to its present location overlooking the River Severn moved. The former school buildings are now used as Municipal Library, Shrewsbury.

Be called to the former students who Old Salopians include:

• Christopher Booker (* 1937 - ), journalist, founder of the satirical magazine Private Eye
• Tim Booth ( * 1960 - ) musician
• Michael Heseltine (* 1933 - ), a conservative politician
• Richard Ingrams (* 1937 - ), journalist, founder of the satirical magazine Private Eye
• Martin Rees (* 1942 - ), Astronomer Royal, President of the Royal Society

The school gives the Public Nose magazine, which deliberately alludes in her name to the satirical magazine Private Eye, but quite the contrary, a school newspaper, which reported serious about current events. The produced solely by students newspaper The falopian however, is a satirical newspaper, which is based on Private Eye. The school itself is to publish a newspaper entitled The Salopian, which mainly depends on the school staff and the parents of the students and reports on current events that affect the school.