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Winchester College
Overview
Winchester College is an English public school (a fee-charging boarding school) for pupils aged 13–18 in Winchester, Hampshire. It was founded by William of Wykeham in 1382 as a feeder school for New College, Oxford, and has operated continuously on its present site ever since. It is the oldest of the nine public schools investigated by the Clarendon Commission. Historically, the school was a boys' boarding school, but from September 2022, it has accepted both male and female day pupils into its sixth form.
The school was founded to provide an education for 70 scholars, with a choir of 16 "quiristers" aged up to 12. Gradually numbers rose with paying pupils known as "commoners" alongside the scholars. Numbers expanded greatly in the 1860s with the addition of ten boarding houses. The scholars continue to live in the school's medieval buildings, which consist of two courtyards, a chapel, and a cloisters. A Wren-style classroom building named "School" was added in the 17th century. An art school ("museum"), science school, and music school were added at the turn of the 20th century. A war cloister was built as a memorial in 1924.
The school has maintained traditions including its mascot, the Trusty Servant; a set of "notions" forming a sort of private language; and a school song, Domum. Its headmasters have included the bishops William Waynflete in the 15th century and George Ridding in the 19th century. Former pupils are known as Old Wykehamists.
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Philosophers who discussed Winchester College
- Frank P. Ramsey
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- Martin Hollis (philosopher)
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Part of Romanticism.