PUBLIC SCHOOLS

The Public Schools Act of 1864 named nine "public" schools: Eton, Harrow, Rugby, Winchester, Westminster, Shrewsbury, Charterhouse, St Paul's and Merchant Taylors'. Today the term embraces very many more, and can be applied to all those schools which are financed by bodies other than the State, and whose headmasters belong to the Headmasters Conference as distinct from the Headmasters Association.

There are many such Schools in Britain, including amongst others: (Founded - Name).

600King's School, Canterbury
914Warwick
948St Albans
1382Winchester College
1418Sevenoakes School
1418Shrewsbury School
1440Eton College
1442City of London
1509St Paul's
1515Manchester Grammar School
1550Sherbourne
1552Bedford School
1552King Edward's, Birmingham
1553Christ's Hospital, Horsham
1556Oundle
1557Repton, Derbyshire
1560Westminster
1561Merchant Taylors'
1564Felsted, Dunmow, Essex
1567Rugby School
1571Harrow
1584Uppingham, Leics
1593Stonyhurst College
1611Charterhouse, Godalming
1619Dulwich College
1807Mill Hill
1841Cheltenham College
1843Marlborough College
1847Radley College, Abingdon
1850Bradford College, Berks
1859Wellington College
1862Clifton College, Bristol
1862Haileybury College
1865Malvern College
1923Tonbridge
 
Public schools for girls include:
1552Hertford
1806Wycombe Abbey
1850North London Collegiate School founder Miss Buss
1853Cheltenham Ladies College founder Miss Beale
1885Roedean
 
Public Schools are now known as Independent Schools. (Purely because some idiot is wanting to be "Politically Correct", Axiompc.)

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