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Rugby School is a private boarding school for pupils aged 13–18, located in Rugby, Warwickshire, England, within the UK. [ 1 ] Founded in 1567 as a free grammar school for local boys, it is one of the oldest independent schools in Britain. [ 2 ]
Alex Grove, rugby player for Worcester Warriors and Scotland national rugby union team; A. G. Guillemard, rugby union international who represented England in the first international rugby match in 1871 [11] and later president of the Rugby Football Union. Thomas Hale (1829–1899), first-class cricketer; Octavius Hanbury (1826–1882), first ...
Thomas Arnold (13 June 1795 – 12 June 1842) was an English educator and historian. He was an early supporter of the Broad Church Anglican movement. As headmaster of Rugby School from 1828 to 1841, he introduced several reforms that were widely copied by other noted public schools.
The 1797 Rugby School Rebellion was a mutiny of the boys at Rugby School after the headmaster, Dr Henry Ingles, demanded that boys from the fifth and sixth forms should pay for the repair of a local tradesman's windows after they had been smashed by the school's pupils. The rebellion saw many of the school windows broken and its furniture burnt ...
Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union in English-speaking countries and rugby 15/XV in non-Anglophone Europe, or often just rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in England in the first half of the 19th century. Rugby is based on running with the ball in hand.
Rugby football has strong claims to the world's first and oldest "football club": the Guy's Hospital Football Club, formed in London in 1843, by old boys from Rugby School. Around the English-speaking world , a number of other clubs formed to play games based on the Rugby School rules.
Former pupils of Rugby School, in Warwickshire, England. They are known in some circles as "Old Rugbeians". They are known in some circles as "Old Rugbeians". The abbreviation "OR" is sometimes used to identify this.
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