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The King's School is a public school in Canterbury, Kent, England.It is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference and the Eton Group.It is Britain's oldest public school and is considered to be the oldest continuously operating school in the world, as education on the Abbey and Cathedral grounds has been uninterrupted since AD 597.
[1] [2] [3] Published by Carfax Education, [4] [5] it is often considered a global list of the most prestigious schools of the world. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] In 2025 Time Out (magazine) called the Index "one of the most respected rankings" [ 8 ] and "a prestigious list of the very best private schools in the world".
St Augustine’s College in Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom, was located within the precincts of St Augustine's Abbey about 0.2 miles (335 metres) ESE of Canterbury Cathedral. It served first as a missionary college of the Church of England (1848–1947) and later as the Central College of the Anglican Communion (1952–1967).
Former pupils of The King's School, Canterbury are known in some circles as Old King's Scholars. The abbreviation OKS is sometimes used. The abbreviation OKS is sometimes used. For former students of King's School, Chester , also known as "Old King's Scholars", see Category:People educated at The King's School, Chester .
From 1969 to 1976 the college was used by the theological department of King's College London as a base for final year ordination preparation. Since 1976, the college buildings, together with some new ones, have been used by the King's School, Canterbury, for boarding houses and the school library. This part of the St Augustine's Abbey site was ...
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The King's School, Canterbury; King's School, Chester; King's Ely, Cambridgeshire; The King's School, Gloucester; The King's (The Cathedral) School, Peterborough; King's School, Rochester; King's School, Worcester; Other schools of this name in the United Kingdom include: King's School, Bruton, Somerset; King's College School, Cambridge ...
Revd Canon Frederick Joseph John Shirley, D.D., Ph.D., LL.B. (1890–1967) was an Anglican priest as well as being the headmaster of The King's School, Canterbury, a fee paying school, from 1935 to 1962. He was educated St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and London. He married his wife in 1926 and their daughter became the first and, at the time, the only ...