Rugby, Warwickshire - Head Master's House, Rugby School - postcard 1905

Postcard
• Picture / Image:  The Head Masters House, Rugby School, 1816
• Publisher:  none stated
• Postally used:  yes
• Stamp:  Edward VII half d. dark green
• Postmark(s):  Disley Sep 30 1903? cds
• Sent to:  Miss Montague, Lilford Hall, Oundle, Northumberland
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Rugby School is a co-educational day and boarding school located in the town of Rugby, Warwickshire, England. Rugby School is a registered charity^[1] and is one of the oldest independent schools in Britain.^[2] The influence of Rugby and its pupils and masters in the nineteenth century was enormous and in many ways the stereotype of the English public school is a reworking of Thomas Arnold's Rugby.^{[citation needed]} It is one of the original nine English public schools defined by the Public Schools Act 1868, It is one of the best-known and most expensive schools in the country. ""Floreat Rugbeia"" is the traditional school song.

Rugby School was founded in 1567 as a provision in the will of Lawrence Sheriff, who had made his fortune supplying groceries to Queen Elizabeth I of England.^[3] Since Lawrence Sheriff lived in Rugby and the neighbouring Brownsover, the school was intended to be a free grammar school for the boys of those towns. Up to 1667, the school remained in comparative obscurity. Its history during that trying period is characterised mainly by a series of lawsuits between descendants of the founder, who tried to defeat the intentions of the testator, and the masters and trustees, who tried to carry them out. A final decision was handed down in 1667, confirming the findings of a commission in favour of the trust, and henceforth the school maintained a steady growth.^[4]

type=printed

city/ region=rugby

period=pre - 1914

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number of items=single

size=standard (140x89mm)