Winchester College

AT attended first Harrow School (where, though he was too young for the regular intake, he had a free place because his father had bought a house in the district), then a private school in...

As an adult GS keenly regretted the inadequacy of her education. She shared a governess with her sisters, while her sporty, unbookish brother was sent to Winchester , a highly academic public school. She...

He attended, briefly, Winchester College and Christ Church, Oxford .

He was educated at Winchester College and at Exeter College, Oxford .

Sent to preparatory school at the age of seven, WE obtained the rest of his education on scholarships, first at Winchester School , where his schoolmates included future academics William Hayter and John Sparrow and...

JW 's brothers, Joseph (her elder by two years) and Thomas (her younger by six), each made a name for himself in the literary and academic worlds. Joseph was Headmaster of Winchester College (a public...

Lionel (born next after Lucy and baptised on 11 November 1777) achieved a distinguished army career and also took after his mother in being something of a radical. In 1793, as a boy at Winchester School

Their eldest son, John , was born at Bath and baptised in Bath Abbey on 22 May 1741. After two years at Winchester College he joined the army at about fifteen. He resigned his commission...

Cynthia had met Herbert (Beb) in Dresden in 1903-4 through his sister Violet, when she was sixteen and Beb (born in 1881) was twenty-two. His mother had died in 1891, and three years later his...

It is possible, though this is speculative, that JC became acquainted while living at Winchester with the hymn-writer Anne Steele (who lived not far away), with Anna Seward and Hannah More (who were friends of...

A bust of MS was sculpted by Henry Weekes in 1859. She had already been sketched, while in Crimea, by the war artist William Simpson . She was later the subject of another sculpture (by...

The stories, not arranged chronologically, cover periods from the ancient Greeks and Romans through the middle ages. Named characters include William of Wykeham (founder of Winchester College and of New College, Oxford ), the pioneer...

A subscription was raised at Winchester School to found a scholarship in honour of CY , to take boys from the school on to Oxford or Cambridge .

The publisher was J. Sadler . JC dedicated this first book to its subscribers. Their names fill fifty-two closely-printed columns, and are drawn from an area which is arguably centred on Winchester but which reaches...