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For 400 years the best of the scholars were elected to closed scholarships at Christ Church, Oxford, and Trinity College, Cambridge; since the 1970s, Westminster School boys and girls must win open Oxbridge scholarships by public examination. Prior to 2017, only 40 scholarships were available, and all were awarded to boys sitting the Challenge.
The foundation scholars at Westminster School are called Queen's Scholars when there is a reigning Queen and King's Scholars when there is a reigning King. As at Eton, they are selected by competitive examination ("The Challenge"), board at the oldest house in the school, known as College, and wear gowns during school Abbey services in ...
Westminster School Boat Club's boathouse in Putney. The school has three Eton Fives courts behind Ashburnham House. The school frequently fields pupils as national entries in international competitions in rowing, or "water", and fencing. Westminster School Boat Club is the oldest rowing club in the world, located on the River Thames.
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The 2019-20 Schools' Challenge year would be curtailed, with the usual inter-regional round of sixteen teams turned into a 15-minute rapid quiz before the National Finals became the first (and only ever) to be held on Zoom, with Westminster School and The Perse School triumphing in the shortened Senior and Junior competitions.
Old Westminsters are former pupils of Westminster School in London. The abbreviation OW is sometimes used to identify this, and they are collectively abbreviated as OWW. See also the fuller list of people educated at Westminster School. There are over one thousand Old Westminsters listed in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Articles relating to the Westminster School, a public school in Westminster, London, England, in the precincts of Westminster Abbey. It descends from a charity school founded by Westminster Benedictines before the Norman Conquest, as documented by the Croyland Chronicle and a charter of King Offa. Continuous existence is clear from the early ...
Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover (1802–1867), Commissioner of Works and Public Buildings responsible for, amongst others, the current Palace of Westminster, likely to have given his name to Big Ben; Augustus Short (1802–1883), the first Anglican bishop of Adelaide, South Australia; Zerah Colburn (1804–1840), Canadian child mathematics ...