| 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
|
| John Colet
|
St Paul's School
|
1509
|
| 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)
1541 (refounded)
1541 (refounded)
1541
1541
1541
1541 (refounded)
1541
|
| 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
|
| Robert Chaloner
|
Dr Challoner's Grammar School
|
1624
|
| 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
|
| John Percival
|
Clifton College
|
1862
|
| 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
|
