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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. Its academic results place it among the top schools nationally; about half its students go to Oxbridge, giving it the highest national Oxbridge acceptance rate. In the 2023 A-Levels, the school saw 82.3 of its candidates score A*/A.Boys join the Under School at seven and the Senior School at 13 by examination. Girls join the Sixth Form at 16. About a quarter of the 750 pupils board. Weekly boarders may go home after Saturday morning school. The school motto, Dat Deus Incrementum, quotes 1 Corinthians 3:6: "I planted the seed... but God made it grow." Westminster was one of nine schools examined by the 1861 Clarendon Commission and reformed by the Public Schools Act 1868. The school has produced three Nobel laureates: Edgar Adrian (Nobel Prize for Physiology in 1932), Sir Andrew Huxley (likewise in 1963) and Sir Richard Stone (Nobel Prize in Economics in 1984). In the mid-17th century, the liberal philosopher of the Enlightenment, John Locke, attended the school, and seven UK prime ministers also then attended, all belonging to the Whig or Liberal factions of British politics: Henry Pelham and his brother Thomas Pelham-Holmes, Charles Watson-Wentworth, James Waldegrave, Augustus Fitzroy, William Cavendish-Bentinck, and John Russell. Source: Wikipedia (en)
Works about Westminster School 1
Authors educated at Westminster School 72
- John Locke
- William Hamilton
- Peter Brook
- Peter Ustinov
- Jeremy Bentham
- Simon Gray
- Charles Wesley
- Shane MacGowan
- Ewen Montagu
- Matthew Gregory Lewis
- John Burgoyne
- John Cleland
- Edward Gibbon
- Stephen Poliakoff
- Andrew Lloyd Webber
- Richard Hakluyt
- Nick Clegg
- Ben Jonson
- George Herbert
- William Cowper
- Tom Holt
- Tony Benn
- Nicholas Edwards, Baron Crickhowell
- William King
- Daniel Topolski
- Adam Mars-Jones
- Anna Stothard
- David Carpenter
- David Clement-Davies
- Gavin Pretor-Pinney
- George Bankes
- Edward St Aubyn
- Guy Stair Sainty
- Gilbert Abbott à Beckett
- Brian Urquhart
- Henry Mayhew
- Patrick Hamilton
- Nicholas Rowe
- Gerald Reitlinger
- Roger Cohen
- James Anthony Froude
- Marcel Theroux
- K. A. C. Creswell
- Colin Turnbull
- John Biddulph
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