Rugby School

The Rugby School is a coeducational boarding school in Rugby in the English county of Warwickshire. She is considered one of the most prestigious and oldest private schools in the country. According to tradition, the rugby sport to have originated here. Are taught around 950 pupils 11-18 years of age, of whom about 800 live in the boarding school.

History

Lawrence Sheriff, who had become wealthy as a purveyor of Queen Elizabeth I who founded Rugby School in 1567. Initially, she was a free primary school for boys from Rugby and the neighboring village of Brown Over. In the second half of the 17th century, the Rugby School started a boarding school to develop with superior educational aspiration, but remained open to students from the area. 1823 said to have been founded at the school of rugby when William Webb Ellis " in a fine disregard for the rules of football " during a game took the ball in his hands, took off him behind the line, thus obtaining a point.

The most famous rector of the school was from 1828 to 1842 Thomas Arnold. He converted the Rugby School in a model for the British education school. Internationally known were Arnold and his educational principles with the ideal of the "Christian Gentleman " (where also the sports and community games should not be neglected ) in 1857 by the book " Tom Brown's Schooldays years" ( Tom Brown's School Days ) by Thomas Hughes.

The school wanted its importance as a training center for children of the upper classes are increasing, but without compromising the purpose of the foundation of Lawrence Sherriff. For this reason, in 1878 the Lawrence Sheriff Grammar School was created for children from the town of Rugby. It is organizationally linked to the Rugby School and is financially supported by it. Since 1975, girls in the Rugby School are allowed.

Personalities of Rugby School

Former rectors

Former classmates

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