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Winchester College is a public school in the city of Winchester in Hampshire, in the south of England. It is arguably the 'original' public school and the model for later schools like Eton and Harrow. Officially known as Collegium Santae Mariae prope Wintoniensem, or St. Mary's College outside Winchester, the college is commonly referred to as "Win: Coll:" or just "Winchester". Winchester has existed for over six hundred years and claims to have the longest unbroken history of any school in England. Winches ...

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Each house has an official name, used mainly as a postal address, and an informal name, usually based on the familiar name of the original housemaster. Each house also has a letter assigned to it, in the order of their founding, to act as an abbreviation. College does not have an informal name, although the abbreviation Coll: is sometimes used, especially on written work. It also has a letter assigned to it, X, but it is ...

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Winchester College was founded in the fourteenth century by William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester and Chancellor to Richard II, and the first seventy poor scholars entered the school in 1394. Historically, the school also took a few paying students, known as "Commoners". Originally there were only about 10, rising steadily until the early 19th century, when their numbers were approximately equal to those of the Scholars. In the late 1850s and throughout the 1860s, the numbers expanded dramatically as nine new boarding houses were built. O ...

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Manners maketh man - William of Wykeham Motto of Winchester College and New College, Oxford Broad of Church and broad of mind, broad before and broad behind, A keen ecclesiologist, a rather dirty Wykehamist. - John Betjeman "The Wykehamist" Leader in London's preservation lists And least Wykehamical of Wykehamists{:} Clan chief of Paddington's distinguished set, Pray go on living to a hundred yet! - Patrick Balfour 3rd Baron, Kinross "For Patrick" You can always tell a ...

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