Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield
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Queen Elizabeth Grammar School (QEGS) is an independent, public school for boys in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. The school was founded by Royal Charter of Queen Elizabeth I in 1591 at the request of leading citizens in Wakefield 75 in total and some of whom formed the first governing body.
The original Elizabethan school building on Brook Street
The current buildings on Northgate
War memorial at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield
Public school (United Kingdom)
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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.
The playing fields of Rugby School, 1567, reestablished 1828. The rules of rugby football were codified here in 1845.
View of the old Norman Staircase and scholars, King's School Canterbury, lithograph by William Harvey, 1851
A bird's eye view of Eton College, founded 1440, by David Loggan, published in his Cantabrigia Illustrata of 1690
Cheltenham College, 1841