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1 giorno fa · Eton College was founded by Henry VI as a charity school to provide free education to 70 poor boys who would then go on to King's College, Cambridge, founded by the same king in 1441. Henry used Winchester College as a model
1 giorno fa · Winchester College: Alma mater: Royal Military College, Sandhurst: Awards: 1914–15 Star British War Medal Victory Medal: Military service; Allegiance: British Empire: Branch/service: British Army • 16th The Queen's Lancers • Royal Flying Corps: Years of service: 1914–1918: Rank: Lieutenant: Battles/wars: First World War ...
4 giorni fa · In 1379 he established Saint Mary College of Winchester, soon known as New College, in Oxford. It was remarkable for its munificence, the provision of places for undergraduates, and its preference for theology over law.
3 giorni fa · The ancient capital of Wessex, Winchester is a cathedral city with the arts and humanities-oriented University and an affluent population. Poverty is very low, and the population is a mixture of students, academics, London and Southampton commuters, and those employed locally in high-tech and creative industries.
4 giorni fa · Winchester House was granted to the Marquess of Northampton in 1552 (fn. 7) and he is said to have built a gallery there. (fn. 35) Gardiner was restored to his bishopric and his house on Mary's accession. (fn. 7) Gardiner. In 1559 Henry Machyn relates that the "bysshope of Wynchastur [s] plasse … was rychely hangyd with ryche cloth of arras ...
3 giorni fa · 32. THE COLLEGE OF ST. ELIZABETH, WINCHESTER. Near to the gate of his castle at Wolvesey, Bishop Pontoise built, in 1301, the college of St. Elizabeth of Hungary.
5 giorni fa · The turning point in Sunak’s life came at the end of primary school, when a hard-working boy from a striving middle-class immigrant family got a place to study at Winchester College. It would be a world away from the kitchen at Kuti’s Brasserie; Winchester boys even had a Victorian public -school language of their own, in which bicycles were ‘bogles’ and cigarettes were ‘trusts’.
