Winchester College is an English public school 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. It is the oldest of the nine schools considered by the Clarendon Commission. The school has begun a transition to become co-educational,and has accepted male and female day pupils from September 2022,having previously been a boys' boarding school for over 600 years.
Eton College is a 13–18 public fee-charging and boarding secondary school for boys in Eton,Berkshire,England. It is noted for having educated prime ministers,world leaders,Nobel laureates,Academy Award and BAFTA award-winning actors,and generations of the aristocracy,having been referred to as "the nurse of England's statesmen". The school is the largest boarding school in England ahead of Millfield and Oundle. Eton charges up to £52,749 per year. Eton was noted as being the sixth most expensive HMC boarding school in the UK in 2013–14.
Westminster School is a public school in Westminster,London,England,in the precincts of Westminster Abbey. It descends from a charity school founded by Westminster Benedictines before the Norman Conquest,as documented by the Croyland Chronicle and a charter of King Offa. Continuous existence is clear from the early 14th century. Westminster was one of nine schools examined by the 1861 Clarendon Commission and reformed by the Public Schools Act 1868. The school motto,Dat Deus Incrementum,quotes 1 Corinthians 3:6:"I planted the seed... but God made it grow."
Clifton College is a public school in the city of Bristol in South West England,founded in 1862 and offering both boarding and day school for pupils aged 13–18. In its early years,unlike most contemporary public schools,it emphasised science rather than classics in the curriculum,and was less concerned with social elitism,for example by admitting day-boys on equal terms and providing a dedicated boarding house for Jewish boys,called Polack's House. Having linked its General Studies classes with Badminton School,it admitted girls to every year group in 1987,and was the first of the traditional boys' public schools to become fully coeducational. Polack's House closed in 2005 but a scholarship fund open to Jewish candidates still exists. Clifton College is one of the original 26 English public schools as defined by the Public Schools Yearbook of 1889.
University College School,also known as UCS,is a private day school in Frognal,Hampstead,London,England. The school was founded in 1830 by University College London and inherited many of that institution's progressive and secular views.
Sevenoaks School is a selective coeducational English public school,with provision for day attendees in Sevenoaks,Kent,England. It is the second oldest non-denominational school in the United Kingdom,dating back to 1432,only behind Oswestry (1407). Around 1,200 day pupils and boarders attend,ranging in age from 11 to 18 years. There are approximately equal numbers of boys and girls. In 2006 it became the first major UK school to switch entirely from A level exams to the International Baccalaureate.
Bradfield College is a public boarding and day school for pupils aged 13–18 in Bradfield,Berkshire,England. It is noted for its open-air Greek theatre and its triennial Greek play.
The Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC),formerly known as the Headmasters' Conference and now branded HMC (The Heads' Conference),is an association of the head teachers of 351 private fee-charging schools (both boarding schools and day schools),some traditionally described as public schools. 302 members are based in the United Kingdom,Crown dependencies and the Republic of Ireland. There are 49 international members (mostly from the Commonwealth) and also 28 associate or affiliate members who are head teachers of state schools or other influential individuals in the world of education,who endorse and support the work of HMC.
Michael William McCrum CBE was an English academic and ancient historian who served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge,Master of Corpus Christi College,Cambridge,and Head Master of Tonbridge School and Eton College.
Worth School is a private co-educational Roman Catholic boarding and day school for pupils from 11 to 18 years of age near Worth,West Sussex,England. Until 2008,Worth was exclusively a boys' school. The school is located within Worth Abbey,a Benedictine monastery,in 500 acres (2.0 km2) of Sussex countryside. It is one of the three prominent Benedictine independent boarding schools in the United Kingdom;the other two being Ampleforth and Downside. For the academic year 2015/16,Worth charged day pupils up to £7,275 per term,making it the 42nd most expensive HMC day school.
Bishop's Stortford College is a private boarding and day school in the English public school tradition for more than 1,200 pupils aged 4–18,situated in a 130-acre (0.53 km2) campus on the edge of the market town of Bishop's Stortford,Hertfordshire,England.
A King's Scholar is a foundation scholar of one of certain public schools. These include Eton College;The King's School,Canterbury;King's Ely;The King's School,Worcester;Durham School;and Westminster School,although at Westminster their name changes depending on whether the current monarch is male or female.
Clifton School (Durban) is an independent day school for boys in Durban,KwaZulu-Natal,South Africa.
St Leonards School is a co-educational private boarding and day school for pupils aged 4–19 in St Andrews,Fife,Scotland. Founded in 1877 as St Andrews School for Girls Company,it adopted the St Leonards name upon moving to its current premises,the site formerly occupied by the University of St Andrews’St Leonard's College,in 1883.
The Old Cliftonian Society (OCS) is the Society for the alumni of Clifton College and organises regular reunions at the school and publishes a regular newsletter for alumni.
In England and Wales,a public school is a type of fee-charging private school originally for older boys. They are "public" in the sense of being open to pupils irrespective of locality,denomination or paternal trade or profession;nor are they run for the profit of a private owner.
John Alan Claughton is a former Chief Master of King Edward's School,Birmingham (K.E.S.),and a former English first-class cricketer. Claughton was a right-handed batsman.
Douglas Robert Kenneth Robb is an English schoolmaster who is currently headmaster of Gresham's School. Before that,he was a housemaster at Oundle School and then head of Oswestry School.
There have been many controversies concerning Eton College,sometimes called the most famous school in the world. In 2005,The Guardian claimed that "Eton is no stranger to scandalous allegations,nor to claims that it tries to prevent them leaking out."
