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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.
The Schools Index was started in 2020 by Carfax Education and initially contract-published by Spear's. Until 2023 it was also sometimes known as the Spear's Schools Index. [2] [12] In 2022, the Schools Index incorporated an assessment of how effectively schools managed the disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic over the previous two years ...
Hanley Castle High School (chantry school 1326, charter 1544) The King's School, Grantham (1329, refounded 1528) Bourne Grammar School (earliest record of existence 1330, endowed 1636) The King's School, Ottery St Mary (1335, refounded 1545) Bablake School (1344) St George's School, Windsor Castle (1348)
The King's School. King's School is the oldest secondary school in the United Kingdom. St. Augustine established it shortly after his 597 arrival in Canterbury though documented history of it only began after dissolution of the monasteries in the 16th century, when it took the present name in honour of Henry VIII. [115]
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
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 ...
Charles met with the Bishop of Norwich to appoint him as Lord High Almoner on Wednesday.
Schools portal; Biography portal; 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.