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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 ]
Bromsgrove School (record of a chantry school 1476, re-founded 1553) Magdalen College School, Oxford, England (1480) ... Rugby School, England (1567)
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.
Rugby School—founded in 1567—was one of the original seven public schools, along with Winchester, founded in 1382; Eton College, founded in 1440; Shrewsbury, founded in 1552; Westminster, founded in 1560; Harrow, founded in 1571; Charterhouse, founded in 1611. [1] [2] Discipline at public schools in the 18th and 19th centuries was poor.
Colleges of the University of Cambridge were founded by: Founder College ... Rugby School: 1562 Sir Roger Cholmeley: Highgate School: ... St. James's School ...
The Blackheath Football Club, in London, founded in 1858 is the oldest surviving non-university/school rugby club. Cheltenham College 1844, Sherborne School 1846 and Durham School 1850 are the oldest documented school's clubs.
The oldest surviving rugby football club is Heidelberger RK, which was founded on 9 May 1872 as a rowing and rugby club. The HRK has won 14 national titles 1927, 1928, 1971, 1973, 1976, 1986, 2010–2015, 2017 and 2018.
The Rugby Football Union is founded, following a meeting of 25 clubs at the Pall Mall restaurant. 1871: First recognised international rugby match, played between England and Scotland. 1876: Matthew Bloxam's letter is published in The Meteor. It claims William Webb Ellis, a pupil at Rugby School, picked up the ball and invented rugby. Although ...