Oundle School is a co-educational English public school located in the ancient market town of Oundle in Northamptonshire, England. The school has been maintained by the Worshipful Company of Grocers of the City of London since its foundation in 1556, making it one of the oldest surviving public schools in the country. Oundle has eight boys' houses, five girls' houses, a day house and a junior house. Together these accommodate over 1200 pupils. Th...
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Oundle School is a co-educational English public school located in the ancient market town of Oundle in Northamptonshire, England. The school has been maintained by the Worshipful Company of Grocers of the City of London since its foundation in 1556, making it one of the oldest surviving public schools in the country. Oundle has eight boys' houses, five girls' houses, a day house and a junior house. Together these accommodate over 1200 pupils. The current headmaster is Charles Bush.
Oundle School was founded as a grammar school in 1556 by a prosperous local man, Sir William Laxton. Laxton had been a member of the Worshipful Company of Grocers and was honoured with the role of Lord Mayor of London in 1544, during the reign of Henry VIII. Laxton used the prosperity which his new life in London had granted him to establish a school for the local boys of Oundle which was to be maintained by the Worshipful Company of Grocers.
The size and reputation of the school rose gradually in the...
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