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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).
Frances Houghton MBE (born 1980), Olympic rower and World Champion; Millie Knight (born 1999), Paralympic skier; Cecil Paris (1911–1998), first-class cricketer; chairman of the Test and County Cricket Board (1968–1969) and president of the Marylebone Cricket Club (1975) Tom Ransley MBE (born 1985), former Olympic rower and World Champion
Former pupils of The King's School, Canterbury are known in some circles as Old King's Scholars. 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.
The article on Edward Heath states that he was in the sixth form at King's Canterbury, and became head boy. But his name does not appear on your alumni list, nor is it in his Who's Who entry. Millbanks 10:25, 1 March 2009 (UTC) The reference has now been deleted. Millbanks 13:15, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
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 ...
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