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Rugby School

LC control no.n 86053853
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Corporate name headingRugby School
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Variant(s)Rugby (School : Rugby, England)
Beginning date1567
Associated countryEngland Great Britain
LocatedRugby (England)
Found inHughes, T. School days at Rugby.
LC in RLIN, 12/3/86 (Rugby School)
Rugby School website, viewed November 26, 2018: About, History (Rugby was founded in 1567 as a Free Grammar School for the boys of Rugby and Brownsover; by 1667 it was acquiring a name for scholarshiop and developed under a series of outstanding masters; the school moved from the middle of town to occupy a manor house on the present site of School House in 1750; toward the end of the 20th century it became co-educational, beginning in 1975; the school is now national and international, with 10% of its students from overseas) Contact us (address, Rugby, Warwickshire)