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Rugby School is a public school for pupils aged 13–18, located in the town of Rugby, Warwickshire in England.
Rugby School, seen from 'The Close' playing field.
Lawrence Sheriff, founder of Rugby School
Thomas Arnold, Headmaster from 1828 to 1841
Game of Rugby being played on 'the Close' at Rugby School, where the sport was invented.
A public school in England and Wales is a type of fee-charging private school originally for older boys. The schools are "public" from a historical schooling context in the sense of being open to pupi
Rugby School
…Rugby School is a public school (English private boarding school) for pupils aged 13–18, located in the town of Rugby, Warwickshire in England. Founded in 1567 as a free grammar school…
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