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This is a list of the founders of English schools, colleges, and universities.

Oxford Colleges

Further information: Colleges of the University of Oxford

Colleges of the University of Oxford were founded by:

Founder College Year of foundation
William of Durham University College[1] 1249
John I de Balliol Balliol College 1263
Walter de Merton Merton College 1264
Walter de Stapledon, Bishop of Exeter Exeter College 1314
Adam de Brome Oriel College 1324
Robert de Eglesfield, chaplain of Queen Philippa Queen's College 1341
William of Wykeham New College 1379
Richard Fleming, Bishop of Lincoln Lincoln College 1427
Henry Chichele All Souls College 1438
William Waynflete, Bishop of Winchester Magdalen College 1458
Richard Sutton and William Smyth Brasenose College 1509
Richard Fox, Bishop of Winchester Corpus Christi College 1517
King Henry VIII Christ Church 1546
Sir Thomas Pope Trinity College 1555
Sir Thomas White St John's College 1555
Hugh Price Jesus College 1571
Nicholas and Dorothy Wadham Wadham College 1610
King James I
William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke
Thomas Tesdale
Richard Wightwick 		Pembroke College 1624
Sir Thomas Cookes Worcester College 1714
Richard Newton Hertford College 1740
Elizabeth Wordsworth St Hugh's College 1886
Dorothea Beale St Hilda's College 1893
Francis Chavasse St Peter's College 1929

Cambridge Colleges

Further information: Colleges of the University of Cambridge

Colleges of the University of Cambridge were founded by:

Founder College Year of foundation
Hugh de Balsham Peterhouse 1284
Margaret of Anjou Queens' College 1448
Elizabeth Woodville Queens' College 1465 (refounded)
John Alcock Jesus College 1496
Lady Margaret Beaufort Christ's College 1505
Lady Margaret Beaufort & St John Fisher St John's College 1511
Thomas Audley Magdalene College 1542 (refounded)
King Henry VIII Trinity College 1546
John Caius Gonville and Caius College 1557 (refounded)
Frances Sidney, Countess of Sussex Sidney Sussex College 1596
Emily Davies
Barbara Bodichon
Lady Stanley of Alderley 		Girton College 1869
15th Duke of Norfolk St Edmund's House, later College 1896

English schools

English schools were founded by:

Founder College Year of foundation
St Augustine The King's School, Canterbury 597 AD
St Justus The King's School, Rochester 604 AD
St Paulinus St Peter's School, York 627 AD
Herbert de Losinga Norwich School 1096
Walkelin de Derby Derby School c. 1165
Isabella of France Bablake School 1344
William of Wykeham Winchester College 1382
Katherine, Lady Berkeley Katharine Lady Berkeley's School 1384
Henry VI of England Eton College 1440
Joan Greyndour Newland Grammar School c. 1445
Hugh Oldham Manchester Grammar School 1515
Thomas Horsley Royal Grammar School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne 1525
William Radcliffe Stamford School 1532
John Incent Berkhamsted Collegiate School 1541
King Henry VIII Durham School

The King's School, Canterbury
King's Ely
The King's School, Chester
The King's School, Gloucester
The King's School, Peterborough
The King's School, Rochester
The King's School, Worcester

1541 (refounded)

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William Dauntesey Dauntsey's School 1542
King Edward VI Sherborne School
King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford
King Edward VI Grammar School, Louth
Shrewsbury School
King Edward's School, Bath
King Edward's School, Birmingham
Christ's Hospital
 1550
1551
1551
1552
1552
1552
1552
King Edward VI and
Nicholas Ridley 		King Edward's School, Witley 1553
William Harpur Bedford School refounded 1552
Sir John Gresham Gresham's School 1555
Sir William Laxton Oundle School 1556
Queen Elizabeth I Westminster School 1560 (refounded)
Lawrence Sheriff Rugby School 1562
Sir Roger Cholmeley Highgate School 1565
Robert Harvard
(Father of John Harvard - founder of Harvard University)
One of four founders 		St. Olave's and St. Saviour's Grammar School 1571
John Lyon Harrow School 1572
Thomas Aldersey Aldersey Grammar School 1575
William Lambe Sutton Valence School 1576
Edmund Grindal St Bees School 1583
John Whitgift Whitgift School 1596
Sir Thomas Gresham Gresham College 1597
Richard Platt Aldenham School 1597
Henry Lee of Ditchley Aylesbury Grammar School 1598
Peter Blundell Blundell's School 1604
Thomas Sutton Charterhouse School 1611
Stephen Perse The Perse School 1615
Edward Alleyn Dulwich College 1619
William Glegg Calday Grange Grammar School 1636
Robert Aske Haberdashers' Aske's School 1690
Thomas Thynne, 1st Viscount Weymouth Lord Weymouth's School now Warminster School 1707
John Wesley Kingswood School 1748
Moses Benson St. James's School, Liverpool 1802
Andrew Reed London Asylum for Orphans
(later Reed's School) 		1813
William Sewell Radley College 1847
Nathaniel Woodard Lancing College, 1848
Hurstpierpoint College, 1849
Ardingly College, 1858
Denstone College, 1868
Abbots Bromley School for Girls, 1874
King's College (Taunton), 1880
Ellesmere College, 1884
Worksop College, 1890
Queen Victoria Wellington College 1853
Francis Pocock Monkton Combe School 1868
Frederick Savage Seaford College 1884
John Haden Badley Bedales School 1893
Olive Willis Downe House 1907
Alexander Nikitich Carfax College 2008

English schools and colleges outside England

See also

References

  1. ^ Butterworth, Hugh Montagu (2011). Blood and Iron: Letters from the Western Front. Casemate Publishers. p. 24. ISBN 978-1-84884-297-7.
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