Merchant Taylors' School (MTS) is a British boys' independent, day school, originally located in the City of London, and since 1933 located at Sandy Lodge in the Three Rivers district of Hertfordshire (but within the Northwood post town).
The school was founded in 1561 by Sir Thomas White and is one of the original nine English Public Schools as defined by the Public Schools Act 1868. Today the school caters for approximately 827 students between...
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Merchant Taylors' School (MTS) is a British boys' independent, day school, originally located in the City of London, and since 1933 located at Sandy Lodge in the Three Rivers district of Hertfordshire (but within the Northwood post town).
The school was founded in 1561 by Sir Thomas White and is one of the original nine English Public Schools as defined by the Public Schools Act 1868. Today the school caters for approximately 827 students between the ages of 11 and 18.
The school was founded in 1561 by members of the Merchant Taylors' Company and was originally located in a manor house called the Manor of the Rose in the parish of St. Lawrence Pountney in the City of London, where it remained until 1875.
Merchant Taylors' was not the first school to be founded by members of the Merchant Taylors' Company for the Tudor period in England was a period of expansion for education. Sir John Percival (Master of the Company in 1485, Lord Mayor of London in 1498) established a grammar school at...
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