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Founded in 1432 as a grammar school by William Sevenoke as a part of his last will and testament, the school was intended to give a classical education to boys from the town, free of church constrictions. [5] Sevenoke’s will also provided for almshouses for poor men and women. [6] Sevenoaks School is one of the oldest lay foundations in England.
Sevenoaks School, at the south end of High Street, is one of the oldest lay foundations in England. It was founded by William Sevenoke in 1432. Sevenoke, a foundling, had been brought up in the town. In later life he became a merchant and served as alderman, sheriff and Mayor of London. Founding the school and adjacent almshouses was his thanks ...
The free grammar school was founded by Thomas Burbank near Penrith in the name of Queen Elizabeth I. Originally endowed with lands in Northamptonshire, it was expanded by owners at Brixworth and Culgaith in Cumberland. A rentcharge on Yanwath Hall continued the Earl of Lonsdale's commitment to education in the county. The school closed in 1911 ...
Sponne School (chantry founded 1430) Sevenoaks School (1432) Chipping Campden School (c1440) Eton College (1440) King's College School, Cambridge (1441) City of London School (1442) St Dunstan's College (earlier than 1446) Bridlington School (1447) Hartismere School (founded 1451) St. Bartholomew's School, Newbury (1466)
Sevenoaks School, England (1432) Eton College, ... Bromsgrove School (record of a chantry school 1476, re-founded 1553) Magdalen College School, Oxford, England (1480)
Radnor House Sevenoaks School ... Combe Bank a convent boarding and day school from the 1920s was re-founded in 1973 as an independent girls’ day school.
Somerhill Independent School (formerly known as The Schools at Somerhill) is an independent prep school in Tonbridge, Kent, located at Somerhill House and overseen by Somerhill Charitable Trust. The school is composed of three sections: Somerhill Pre-Prep (coeducational pre-prep for children aged 2.5 to 7), Yardley Court (for boys aged 7-13 ...
The Vice Admiral was a graduate of the United Kingdom’s Sevenoaks School (founded 1432 AD). He died of bone cancer in Chevy Chase, Maryland. [1] [2] Honors and awards