Eton, Berkshire - Eton College - The Headmaster's Room - c.1920s postcard

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• Picture / Image:  Eton College - The Headmaster's Room
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Eton College, usually referred to as Eton, is a British independent boarding school for boarding pupils aged between 13 to 18 years. It is a large boys' school, with over 1,300 pupils, and was founded in 1440 by King Henry VI as ""The King's College of Our Lady of Eton besides Wyndsor"".^[1]

The School is located in the village of Eton, near Windsor in England, and is one of nine English independent schools, commonly referred to as ""public schools"", included in the original Public Schools Act 1868. Following the public school tradition, Eton is a full boarding school, which means all pupils live at the school, and is one of four remaining single-sex boys' public schools (the others being Winchester College, Harrow School and Radley College) to continue this practice.

Eton has a long list of distinguished former pupils. David Cameron is the nineteenth British Prime Minister to have attended Eton,^[2][3] and has recommended that Eton set up a school in the state sector to help drive up standards.^[4] The College has also educated generations of British aristocracy and members of the Royal family, the most recent being Prince William and his brother Prince Harry.

Eton has traditionally been referred to as ""the chief nurse of England's statesmen"",^[5] and has been described as the most famous public school in the world.^[6] Early in the 20th century, a historian of Eton wrote, ""No other school can claim to have sent forth such a cohort of distinguished figures to make their mark on the world.""^[7]

The Good Schools Guide called the school ""the number one boys' public school,"" adding, ""The teaching and facilities are second to none.""^[8] The school is a member of the G20 Schools Group.

The school is headed by a Provost and Fellows (Board of Governors), who appoint the Head Master. It contains 25 boys' houses, each headed by a housemaster, selected from the more senior members of the teaching staff, who number some 160.^{[citation needed]} Almost all the school's pupils go on to universities, about a third of them to Oxford or Cambridge.^[9]

The present headmaster, Anthony Little MA, is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference and the school is a member of the Eton Group of independent schools in the United Kingdom.

Eton today is a larger school than it has been for much of its history. In 1678, there were 207 boys. In the late 18th century, there were about 300, while in the modern era, the total has risen to over 1,300.

Eton College was founded by Henry VI as a charity school to provide free education to seventy poor boys who would then go on to King's College, Cambridge, founded by the same King in 1441. Henry took Winchester College as his model, visiting on many occasions, borrowing its Statutes and removing its Headmaster and some of the Scholars to start his new school.

When Henry VI founded the school, he granted it a large number of endowments, including much valuable land, a plan for formidable buildings (Henry intended the nave of the College Chapel to be the longest in Europe) and several religious relics, supposedly including a part of the True Cross and the Crown of Thorns. He persuaded the then Pope, Eugene IV, to grant him a privilege unparalleled anywhere in England: the right to grant indulgences to penitents on the Feast of the Assumption. The school also came into possession of one of England's Apocalypse manuscripts

type=printed postcards

theme=topographical: british

sub-theme=england

county/ country=berkshire

number of items=single

period=inter-war (1918 - 1939)

postage condition=unposted