Winchester College

College Street

Winchester College is a school for 700 boys aged between thirteen and eighteen years of age in Winchester in the south west of England. The school is funded by tuition fees and donations. The school fees are around £ 30,000 ( € 35,000 ) to the highest in England.

The school was founded in 1382 and is one of the world's most prestigious schools. Was founded Winchester College originally by William of Wykeham, the then Bishop of Winchester and served to enable the purpose of poor fellows training. Such fellows there still, but they are usually so wealthy that they have to spend at least half of the school fees from their own resources.

In addition to the so-called Notions, a kind of language of students, Winchester College is known among other things for his own school sports, Winchester College Football.

The school is almost exclusively a boarding school. The students live in eleven houses with around seventy students each. Fellows ( scholars ) live in their own house.

For many years the school occupied top positions in A-level rankings that are created by British newspapers and thus enjoys an excellent international academic reputation. Because of this, applicants must undergo demanding selection process.

The school motto is: " Manners makyth you " ( "Manners make a man ").

Student

  • Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
  • Antony Beevor, historian
  • Thomas Burgess, writer
  • Apsley Cherry - Garrard, polar explorer
  • Kenneth Clark, art historian, director of the National Gallery, London
  • Alfred Douglas, poet and companion / lover of Oscar Wilde
  • Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, Battle of Britain commander
  • Francis Maurice Gustavus du Plat Taylor (1878-1954), London Engineer for port facilities and land reclamation
  • Montague John Druitt, presumably Jack the Ripper
  • Freeman Dyson, a mathematician and physicist
  • George Mallory, mountaineer
  • Lionel Johnson, Poet
  • Robert Nichols, poet
  • Sydney Smith, essayist and satirist
  • Anthony Trollope, writer
  • Thomas Warton, Poet Laureate
  • Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, Field Marshal and Governor-General and Viceroy of India
  • Maxwell Woosnam, Olympic and Wimbledon tennis champion and captain of the England national football team.
  • Shaun Wylie, mathematician and code breaker during World War II
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