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Richard Brinsley Sheridan MP (1751–1816), Irish playwright (The Rivals, The School for Scandal, The Duenna, and A Trip to Scarborough) and politician [518] Walter Sichel (1855–1933), English biographer and lawyer [519] William Sotheby (1757–1833), English poet and translator [520]
Harrow School (/ ˈ h ær oʊ /) [1] is a public school (English boarding school for boys) in Harrow on the Hill, Greater London, England. [2] The school was founded in 1572 by John Lyon , a local landowner and farmer, under a royal charter of Queen Elizabeth I .
The Grove (/ ð ə ˈ ɡ r ə ʊ v /), is a boarding house for Harrow School, in Harrow on the Hill, Greater London, England. [1] The Grove was converted into a boarding house in 1820 and is a Grade II listed building. [2] It was constructed on the site of a rectory manor to St Mary's Church, Harrow on the Hill which was built around 1094. [3]
Edward Ernest Bowen (30 March 1836 – 8 April 1901) was a first-class cricketer, footballer, and an influential schoolmaster at Harrow School from 1859 until his death, and the author of the Harrow school song, "Forty Years On". He was notable in football for winning the first two FA Cup finals with the Wanderers.
Pages in category "People educated at Harrow School" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,914 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
George Butler memorial, St Mary's, Harrow on the Hill. George Butler (5 July 1774 – 30 April 1853) was an English schoolmaster and divine, Headmaster of Harrow School from 1805 to 1829 and Dean of Peterborough from 1842 to his death in 1853.
Fagging was sometimes associated with both consensual sexual service and sexual abuse. [4]: 215–244 [5] Christopher Tyerman, writing about the history of Harrow School, stated that in some situations, fagging could either encourage or conceal sexual activity between students, and that, at Harrow, fagging began to decline around the same time as the school started actively discouraging ...
"Forty Years On" is a song written by Edward Ernest Bowen and John Farmer in 1872. It was originally written for Harrow School, [1] but has also been adopted by many other schools including Westville Boys' High School, Simon Langton Boys School Canterbury Kent,Starehe Boys' Centre and School, Beverley Grammar School (reputedly the oldest state school in England), Dover Grammar School for Boys ...