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Winchester College is a public school (fee-charging private boarding school) with some provision for day pupils, 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. The school was founded to provide an education for 70 scholars. Gradually numbers rose, a choir of 16 "quiristers" being added alongside paying pupils known as "commoners". Numbers expanded greatly in the 1860s with the addition of ten boarding houses. The scholars continue to live in the school's medieval buildings, which consist of two courtyards, a chapel, and a cloisters. A Wren-style classroom building named "School" was added in the 17th century. An art school ("museum"), science school, and music school were added at the turn of the 20th century. A war cloister was built as a memorial in 1924. The school has maintained traditions including its mascot, the Trusty Servant; a set of "notions" forming a sort of private language; and a school song, Domum. Its headmasters have included the bishops William Waynflete in the 15th century and George Ridding in the 19th century. Former pupils are known as Old Wykehamists. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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- Charles Madge
- Charles Thomas
- James Joll
- Freeman Dyson
- George Edward MacKenzie Skues
- William Lisle Bowles
- Arnold J. Toynbee
- Joss Whedon
- Thomas Browne
- Anthony Trollope
- Godfrey Benson, 1st Baron Charnwood
- Thomas Warton
- Robert Nichols
- Julian Mitchell
- Nicholas Shakespeare
- John Bryan Ward-Perkins
- Nowell Myres
- Apsley Cherry-Garrard
- Edward Young
- Nicholas Udall
- Nicholas Monsarrat
- Sir Richard Worsley, 7th Baronet
- Seumas Milne
- Edward Platt
- Dominic Selwood
- John Wickham Legg
- Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon
- Michael Dummett
- Henry Miers Elliot
- Kenneth Clark
- Antony Beevor
- Ian G. Macdonald
- William Collins
- Jonathan Spence
- William Empson
- David Soskice
- Charles Abbot
- Charles Dibdin
- Thomas Adolphus Trollope
- Peter Jay
- A. P. Herbert
- A. G. Macdonell
- Samuel Rolles Driver
- Robert Conquest
- Montague Woodhouse, 5th Baron Terrington
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