Winchester College

William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester, founded the first college outside a university, namely Winchester College, in 1379, for seventy boys who were to be educated in "grammar", i.e. literature.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

P&G Wells 11 College Street, Winchester, Hants SO23 9LZ, 01962 852016Claiming to have the largest stock of children's books in the region and located a few doors from the last house Jane Austen lived in, P&G Wells is one of the oldest bookshops in Britain and has been supplying Winchester College for more than 200 years.

Independent bookshops in south-east England 2011

He had attended Winchester College, which instilled in him, he believed, his intellectual insecurity and his sexual immaturity.

Archive 2005-06-01 Jenny Davidson 2005

He had attended Winchester College, which instilled in him, he believed, his intellectual insecurity and his sexual immaturity.

Self-indulgent and reprehensible behavior Jenny Davidson 2005

When I was twelve there came the vacancy at Winchester College which I was destined to fill.

An Autobiography 2004

Clem Sunter was born in Suffolk, England on 8 August 1944 and was educated at Winchester College.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

The Founder of New College met the difficulty by the foundation of Winchester College, at which all Wykehamists (except the earliest members of New College) were to be thoroughly grounded in

Life in the Medieval University Robert S. Rait

This fate befell the building, which had three altars and a total length of 120 feet as was shown in the dry summer of 1842 when the outline of the walls was distinct in the grass of the meadows on the south-east of Winchester College.

Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter Edric Holmes

_Echoes from Old Cricket Fields_ cites the biography of Bishop Ken to show that he played cricket at Winchester College in 1650, one of his scores, cut on the chapel-cloister wall, being still extant; and the same writer reproduces as a frontispiece to his "opusculum" an old engraving bearing date 1743, in which the wicket appears as a skeleton hurdle about two feet wide by one foot high, while the bat is the Saxon

Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873 Various

I have been informed that in Winchester College library, in a 4to. volume, there are some poems by Mr. William Basse; but the title of the volume I have not been able to obtain.

Notes and Queries, Number 19, March 9, 1850 Various