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{{Short description| Private school in Warwickshire, England}}
{{Use British English|date=February 2023}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2025}}
{{Infobox school
 | name                    = Rugby School
 | logo                    = Rugby School crest.png
 | logo_size               = 100px
 | image                   = Rugby School 06.jpg
 | image_size              = 270px
 | caption                 = Rugby School, seen from 'The Close' playing field.
 | coordinates             = {{coord|52.3675|-1.2611|type:edu_region:GB-WAR_dim:100|display=inline,title}}
 | motto                   = [[Latin]]: ''Orando Laborando''<br />(through work and through prayer)
 | established             = {{start date and age|1567}}
 | closed                  = 
 | sister_school           = [[Rugby School Thailand]]<br />[[Rugby School Japan]]
 | type                    = [[Public school (United Kingdom)|Private boarding school in the UK]]
 | religion                = [[Church of England]]
 | president               = 
 | head_label              = Head
 | head                    = Gareth Parker-Jones
 | chair_label             = Executive Head Master
 | chair                   = Peter Green
 | founder                 = Lawrence Sheriff
 | specialist              = 
 | address                 = Lawrence Sheriff Street
 | city                    = [[Rugby, Warwickshire]]
 | country                 = England
 | postcode                = CV22 5EH
 | local_authority         = 
 | urn                     = 125777
 | ofsted                  = 
 | staff                   = 
 | enrolment               = 865
 | capacity                = 885
 | gender                  = Co-educational
 | lower_age               = 13
 | upper_age               = 18
 | houses                  = 16
 | colours                 = {{color box|#ccdfe8}} Duck Egg Blue, Oxford Blue, Cambridge Blue
 | publication             = 
 | alumni                  = [[List of Old Rugbeians|Old Rugbeians]] (ORs)
 | free_label_3            = School song
 | free_3                  = ''Floreat Rugbeia''
 | website                 = {{URL|www.rugbyschool.co.uk}}
}}

'''Rugby School''' is a [[Public school (United Kingdom)|private boarding school]] for pupils aged 13–18, located in the town of [[Rugby, Warwickshire]] in England.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pFU4AAAAMAAJ&q=history+of+rugby+school|title=Rugby Since Arnold: A History of Rugby School from 1842|first=John Barclay Hope|last=Simpson|date=6 February 1967|publisher=Macmillan|via=Google Books|access-date=6 February 2023|archive-date=6 February 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230206214614/https://books.google.com/books?id=pFU4AAAAMAAJ&q=history+of+rugby+school|url-status=live}}</ref>{{page needed|date=November 2025}}

Founded in 1567 as a free [[grammar school]] for local boys, it is one of the oldest independent schools in Britain.<ref>{{cite web|title=Gabbitas|url=http://www.emetis.com/primer/oldest.htm|access-date=26 August 2015|archive-date=9 February 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120209152900/http://www.emetis.com/primer/oldest.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> Up to 1667, the school remained in comparative obscurity. Its re-establishment by [[Thomas Arnold]] during his time as Headmaster, from 1828 to 1841, was seen as the forerunner of the Victorian [[Public school (United Kingdom)|public school]].<ref>{{cite news|title=The truth about Flashman: an old Rugbeian writes|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|url=http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/andrewmcfbrown/100087567/the-truth-about-flashman|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110514121753/http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/andrewmcfbrown/100087567/the-truth-about-flashman/|url-status=dead|archive-date=14 May 2011|access-date=16 October 2015}}</ref> It was one of nine schools investigated by the [[Clarendon Commission]] of 1864 and later regulated as one of the seven schools included in the [[Public Schools Act 1868]]. Originally a boys' school, it became fully [[Mixed-sex education|co-educational]] in 1992.<ref>{{cite news |title=Rugby pupils long to keep old-fashioned skirts |url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/education/article/pupils-long-to-keep-old-fashioned-skirts-c885c2wsw |work=[[The Times]] |access-date=2 February 2023 |archive-date=2 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230202005405/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/pupils-long-to-keep-old-fashioned-skirts-c885c2wsw |url-status=live }}</ref>

The school's alumni – or "[[List of Old Rugbeians|Old Rugbeians]]" – include a UK prime minister, a French prime minister, several bishops, poets, scientists, writers and soldiers.

Rugby School is the birthplace of [[rugby football]].<ref name="BBC">[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-25946757 "Six ways the town of Rugby helped change the world"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140304074207/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-25946757 |date=4 March 2014 }}. BBC. Retrieved 29 January 2015.</ref>

== History ==
{{see also|Grammar school#History|Latin school|Neo-Latin#Latin in school education 1500–1700}}
[[File:Drawing depicting Lawrence Sheriff.jpg|alt=Beatrix Lohn, founder of Rugby School|left|thumb|upright|[[Lawrence Sheriff]], founder of Rugby School]]

===Foundation and early growth===
Rugby School was founded in 1567 as a provision in the will of [[Lawrence Sheriff]], who had made his fortune supplying groceries to Queen [[Elizabeth I of England]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=15cWAAAAIAAJ ''Rugby''] by Henry Christopher Bradby</ref> In the last few months of his life, Sheriff had drawn up a will which stipulated that his fortune should be used to found [[almshouses]] and a free [[grammar school]] "to serve chiefly for the children of Rugby and [[Brownsover]]... and next for such as be of other places hereunto adjoyneing.". Shortly before his death, Sheriff added a [[Codicil (will)|codicil]] to his will reducing the amount of money he left to the school, possibly due to a family financial problem, but instead leaving his eight acre Conduit Close estate in [[Middlesex]]: At the time this seemed like a poor exchange, as the estate consisted of undeveloped farmland on the edge of London, however, in time this endowment made Rugby School a wealthy institution due to the subsequent development of the area and rise in land values. The area of what is now the Rugby Estate includes much of what is now [[Great Ormond Street]], [[Lamb's Conduit Street]] and [[Rugby Street]] in the London district of [[Bloomsbury]].<ref>{{cite web |title=About the Rugby Estate |url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bloomsbury-project/streets/rugby.htm |publisher=University College London |access-date=17 May 2021 |archive-date=20 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211020172756/https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bloomsbury-project/streets/rugby.htm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="RGOAT">{{cite book |last1=Osbourne |first1=Andy |first2=Eddy |last2=Rawlins|title=Rugby: Growth of a Town |date=1988}}</ref>

Up to 1667, the school remained in comparative obscurity. Sheriff's endowment was not fully realized for some time, due to a challenge over the provisions of the will from the Howkins family, to whom Sheriff was related through his sister, Bridget. Its history during that trying period is characterised mainly by a series of lawsuits between the Howkins family, who tried to defeat the intentions of the [[testator]], and the masters and trustees, who tried to carry them out. A final decision was handed down in 1667, confirming the findings of a commission in favour of the trust, and henceforth the school maintained a steady growth.<ref name="NIE"/> Under the headmastership of [[Henry Holyoake]] (from 1688 to 1731) the school became more than simply a local concern, and began to take on national importance.<ref name="NIE">{{cite NIE |wstitle= Rugby School |volume= XVII | page = |short=1}}</ref> By the end of the 17th century, there were pupils from every part of England attending the school.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Waite |first1=Rev W.&nbsp;O. |title=RUGBY: PAST & PRESENT, WITH AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF NEIGHBOURING PARISHES. |url=http://access.bl.uk/item/pdf/lsidyv2ae4164a |access-date=26 December 2022 |pages=76 |date=1893 |archive-date=6 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230406212122/http://access.bl.uk/item/pdf/lsidyv2ae4164a |url-status=dead }} [http://access.bl.uk/item/pdf/lsidyv2ae4164a Alt URL]</ref>

The school was originally based in a wooden schoolhouse on Church Street opposite [[St Andrew's Church, Rugby|St Andrew's Church]], which incorporated Lawrence Sheriff's former house. By the 1740s this building was in poor condition, and the school looked to relocate to new premises. In 1750, the school moved to its current location to the south of the town centre, when it purchased a former Manor House at the south of High Street; this became the Master's house, a new schoolhouse was built alongside. The current [[#Buildings and architecture|school buildings]] date from the 19th and early 20th centuries.<ref name="RGOAT"/>

Henry Ingles, who was Headmaster between 1794 and 1806, was known for his strict discipline and gained the nickname "The Black Tiger". His time as Headmaster is most notable for the [[1797 Rugby School rebellion|'Great Rebellion' of 1797]]: It started when Ingles heard one of the boys shoot a cork gun, and the boy told him that Mr Rowell, a grocer, had supplied the gunpowder. Mr Rowell denied this, and as a result the boy Astley was flogged by Ingles, the boys retaliated by smashing Mr Rowell's windows and Ingles insisted that the boys pay for the damage. This provoked a full-scale [[riot]], in which the boys blew off doors, smashed windows and burned furniture and books. As the other Masters were away, Ingles called on help from the townsfolk. A party of recruiting soldiers and some townsfolk advanced on the rioters, who retreated onto a moated island in the school grounds. The [[Riot Act]] was read out by a local [[justice of the peace]], calling on the boys to surrender, and while this caused a distraction a group of soldiers waded across the moat from the rear and took the boys prisoner.<ref name="RGOAT"/>

===Victorian period===
[[File:Thomas_Arnold_by_Thomas_Phillips.jpg|thumb|[[Thomas Arnold]], Headmaster from 1828 to 1841]]
Rugby School's most famous headmaster was [[Thomas Arnold]], from 1828 to 1841, whose emphasis on moral and religious principle, was widely admired and was seen as the blueprint for [[Victorian era|Victorian]] public schools. Arnold's period as headmaster is immortalised in [[Thomas Hughes|Thomas Hughes's]] 1857 novel ''[[Tom Brown's School Days]]''. In the Victorian period, Rugby School saw several further Headmasters of some distinction, these included [[Frederick Temple]] (1858–1869) who would later become the [[Archbishop of Canterbury]], [[John Percival (bishop)|John Percival]] (1887–1895) after whom the [[Percival Guildhouse]] is named, and [[Herbert Armitage James]] (1895–1910)<ref name="RGOAT"/>

In 1845, a committee of Rugby schoolboys, [[William Delafield Arnold]], W. W. Shirley and Frederick Hutchins,<ref name="Curry">{{cite book|last=Curry|first=Graham|url=https://lra.le.ac.uk/bitstream/2381/7821/1/391137.pdf|title=Football: A Study in Diffusion|publisher=University of Leicester|year=2001|location=Leicester|page=28|access-date=14 May 2019|archive-date=2 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181102015200/https://lra.le.ac.uk/bitstream/2381/7821/1/391137.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> wrote the "Laws of Football as Played At Rugby School", the first published set of laws for any code of football.<ref name="Curry"/><ref>{{cite wikisource|title=Laws of Football as played at Rugby School (1845)}}</ref>

Rugby was one of the nine prestigious schools investigated by the [[Clarendon Commission]] of 1861–64 (the schools under scrutiny being [[Eton College|Eton]], [[Charterhouse School|Charterhouse]], [[Harrow School|Harrow]], [[Shrewsbury School|Shrewsbury]], [[Westminster School|Westminster]], and [[Winchester College|Winchester]], and two day schools: [[St Paul's School (London)|St Paul's]] and [[Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood|Merchant Taylors]]). Rugby went on to be included in the [[Public Schools Act 1868]], which ultimately related only to the seven boarding schools.

From the early days of the school the pupils were divided into "Foundationers" i.e. boys who lived in Rugby and surrounding villages who received free schooling, as per Sheriff's original bequest, and "Non-Foundationers", boys from outside the Rugby area who paid fees and were [[boarding school|boarders]]. Non-Foundationers were admitted from the early history of the school as they helped to pay the bills. Gradually, as the school's reputation grew, fee-paying Non-Foundationers became dominant and local boys benefited less and less from Sheriff's original intentions. By the latter half of the 19th century it was considered no longer desirable to have local boys attending a prestigious public school and so a new school – [[Lawrence Sheriff School|Lawrence Sheriff Grammar School]] – was founded in 1878 in order to continue Sheriff's original bequest for a free school for local boys.<ref name="RGOAT"/>

On several occasions in the late 19th century Rugby School was visited by the French educator [[Pierre de Coubertin]], who would later cite the school as one of the main inspirations for his most notable achievement, the founding of the modern [[Olympic Games]] in 1896.<ref name="Reutersolympic">{{cite web |title=Rugby school inspired founder of modern Games |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/olympics-london-rugby-idINDEE83H01A20120418 |publisher=Reuters |access-date=27 February 2023 |date=18 April 2012 |archive-date=27 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230227172543/https://www.reuters.com/article/olympics-london-rugby-idINDEE83H01A20120418 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Rugby School welcomes the Olympic Torch |url=https://www.itv.com/news/central/2012-07-02/rugby-school-welcomes-the-olympic-torch |publisher=ITV |access-date=27 February 2023 |date=2 July 2012 |archive-date=27 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230227172549/https://www.itv.com/news/central/2012-07-02/rugby-school-welcomes-the-olympic-torch |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Modern history===
[[File:Rugby School, Rugby match (1) 3.23.jpg|thumb|Game of Rugby being played on 'the Close' at Rugby School, where the sport was invented.]]
In 1975 two girls were admitted to the sixth form and the first girls' house opened three years later, followed by three more. In 1992 the school became fully [[co-educational]] when the first 13-year-old girls arrived, and in 1995 Rugby had its first-ever Head Girl, Louise Woolcock, who appeared on the front page of ''The Times''. In September 2003 the last girls' house was added. Today, total enrolment of day pupils, from forms 4 to 12, numbers around 800.<ref name="prepreview.com">{{cite web|author=University of Oxford student|title=Rugby School|url=http://www.prepreview.com/school/Rugby_School.html|access-date=26 August 2015|archive-date=20 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150920042919/http://www.prepreview.com/school/Rugby_School.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The BBCs [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Qr_fKgB5Rg changing places] give a good view into life in the school.

===Branches overseas===

In 2017, Rugby School opened their first ever overseas franchise in Chonburi Province, Thailand, called [[Rugby School Thailand]].<ref name="d736">{{cite web | title=Rugby School Japan bridges nations, generations | website=Sustainable Japan by The Japan Times | date=1 March 2024 | url=https://sustainable.japantimes.com/lr/108 | access-date=8 December 2024}}</ref> In 2023, the school opened another branch in the city of [[Kashiwa]], [[Chiba Prefecture]], [[Japan]], [[Rugby School Japan]].<ref name="d736"/>

==Rugby football==
[[File:WWEplaque 700.jpg|thumb|[[William Webb Ellis]] plaque]]
[[File:Webb-Ellis-at-Rugby,.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.1|Webb Ellis at Rugby, 1823]]
The game of [[Rugby football]] owes its name to the school.

The legend of [[William Webb Ellis]] and the origin of the game is commemorated by a plaque on the school grounds. The story is that Webb Ellis was the first to pick up a football and run with it, and thus invent a new sport. However, the sole source of the story is [[Matthew Bloxam]], a former pupil but not a contemporary of Webb Ellis. In October 1876, four years after the death of Webb Ellis, in a letter to the school newspaper ''The Meteor'' he quotes an unknown friend relating the story to him. He elaborated on the story four years later in another letter to ''The Meteor'', but shed no further light on its source. [[Richard Lindon]], a boot and shoemaker who had premises across the street from the school's main entrance in Lawrence Sheriff Street, is credited with the invention of the "oval" rugby ball, the rubber inflatable bladder and the brass hand pump.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.richardlindon.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070311213720/http://www.richardlindon.com/|url-status = dead|archive-date=11 March 2007|title=richardlindon.com|access-date=26 August 2015}}</ref>

There were no standard rules for football in Webb Ellis's time at Rugby (1816–1825) and most varieties involved carrying the ball. The games played at Rugby were organised by the pupils and not the masters, the rules being a matter of custom and not written down. They were frequently changed and modified with each new intake of students.

== Rugby fives ==
{{Main|Rugby fives|Fives#Rugby fives|l2 = Fives}}
[[File:Rugby Fives.jpeg|thumb|right|Rugby fives]]

[[Rugby fives]] is a [[Gaelic handball|handball]] game, similar to [[squash (sport)|squash]], played in an enclosed court. It has similarities with [[Winchester fives]] (a form of Wessex fives) and [[Eton fives]].

It is most commonly believed to be derived from Wessex fives, a game played by [[Thomas Arnold]], Headmaster of Rugby, who had played Wessex fives when a boy at Lord Weymouth's Grammar, now [[Warminster School]]. The open court of Wessex fives, built in 1787, is still in existence at [[Warminster School]] although it has fallen out of regular use.

[[Rugby fives]] is played between two players (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles), the aim being to hit the ball above a 'bar' across the front wall in such a way that the opposition cannot return it before a second bounce. The ball is slightly larger than a [[golf ball]], leather-coated and hard. Players wear leather padded gloves on both hands, with which they hit the ball.

[[Rugby fives]] continues to have a good following with tournaments being run nationwide, presided over by the Rugby Fives Association.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rfa.org.uk/|title=Welcome|publisher=Rugby Fives Association|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120204060224/http://www.rfa.org.uk/|archivedate=4 February 2012|url-status=usurped}}</ref>

==Cricket==
[[File:Rugby - Rugby School - geograph.org.uk - 158546.jpg|thumb|A view of the cricket ground at Rugby School]]
The school has produced a number of cricketers who have gone onto play [[Test cricket|Test]] and [[first-class cricket]]. The school has played host to two major matches, the first of which was a [[Twenty20]] match between [[Warwickshire County Cricket Club|Warwickshire]] and [[Glamorgan County Cricket Club|Glamorgan]] in the [[2013 Friends Life t20]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Grounds/11/2005_tt.html |title=Twenty20 Matches played on Rugby School Ground, Rugby |publisher=CricketArchive |access-date=20 October 2020 |url-access=subscription |archive-date=15 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210815042453/https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Grounds/11/2005_tt.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The second match was a [[List A cricket|List-A one-day match]] between [[Warwickshire County Cricket Club|Warwickshire]] and [[Sussex County Cricket Club|Sussex]] in the [[2015 Royal London One-Day Cup]], though it was due to host a match in the [[2014 Royal London One-Day Cup|2014 competition]], however this was abandoned.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Grounds/11/2005_a.html |title=List A Matches played on Rugby School Ground, Rugby |publisher=CricketArchive |access-date=20 October 2020 |url-access=subscription |archive-date=28 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200928084509/https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Grounds/11/2005_a.html |url-status=live }}</ref> In the 2015 match, [[William Porterfield]] scored a [[century (cricket)|century]], with a score of exactly 100.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Grounds/11/2005/a_Centuries.html |title=Rugby School Ground, Rugby - Centuries in List A matches |publisher=CricketArchive |access-date=20 October 2020 |url-access=subscription |archive-date=21 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210921112553/https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Grounds/11/2005/a_Centuries.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Warwickshire will return to Rugby School in 2024 to play three matches in the [[2024 One-Day Cup|One-Day Cup]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Scott |first1=Ged |title=Warwickshire to play three One-Day Cup games at Rugby School |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/68489458 |work=BBC Sport |access-date=11 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240311202121/https://www.bbc.com/sport/cricket/68489458 |archive-date=11 March 2024 |date=6 March 2024 |url-status=live}}</ref>
[[File:1907 Penn Cricket Team v Rugby School.jpg|thumb|Cricket Match between [[University of Pennsylvania]] and Rugby School ({{circa|1907}})<ref>{{cite web|url=https://origins.osu.edu/read/cricket-without-boundaries-story-global-game|title=Cricket without Boundaries: The Story of a Global Game &#124; Origins|date=10 April 2025|website=origins.osu.edu|accessdate=7 December 2025}}</ref>]]

== Houses ==
Rugby School has both day and boarding-pupils, the latter in the majority. Originally it was for boys only, but girls have been admitted to the [[sixth form]] since 1975. It went fully co-educational in 1992. The school community is divided into [[House system|houses]].

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! House

! Founded {{sup|†}}

! Girls/Boys
|-
| Cotton || 1836<ref>{{cite web|title=Rugby School – Cotton|url=https://www.rugbyschool.co.uk/school-life/houses/boys/cotton/|access-date=28 March 2017|archive-date=24 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151124051750/http://www.rugbyschool.co.uk/school-life/houses/boys/cotton/|url-status=dead}}</ref>|| Boys
|-
| Kilbracken || 1841<ref>{{cite web|title=Rugby School – Kilbracken|url=https://www.rugbyschool.co.uk/school-life/houses/boys/kilbracken/|access-date=28 March 2017|archive-date=24 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151124051548/http://www.rugbyschool.co.uk/school-life/houses/boys/kilbracken/|url-status=dead}}</ref>|| Boys
|-
| Michell || 1882<ref>{{cite web|title=Walter Gorden Michell Biography|url=http://www.devon-mitchells.co.uk/getperson.php?personID=I12&tree=Bruton|access-date=28 March 2017|archive-date=26 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210226222713/http://www.devon-mitchells.co.uk/getperson.php?personID=I12&tree=Bruton|url-status=live}}</ref>|| Boys
|-
| School Field || 1852<ref>{{cite web|title=Rugby – School Field|url=https://www.rugbyschool.co.uk/school-life/houses/boys/school-field/|access-date=28 March 2017|archive-date=24 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151124051801/http://www.rugbyschool.co.uk/school-life/houses/boys/school-field/|url-status=dead}}</ref>|| Boys
|-
| School House || 1750<ref>{{cite web|title=Rugby School – School House|url=https://www.rugbyschool.co.uk/school-life/houses/boys/school-house/|access-date=28 March 2017|archive-date=24 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151124051805/http://www.rugbyschool.co.uk/school-life/houses/boys/school-house/|url-status=dead}}</ref>|| Boys
|-
| Sheriff || 1930<ref>{{cite web|title=Rugby School – Sheriff|url=https://www.rugbyschool.co.uk/school-life/houses/boys/sheriff/|access-date=28 March 2017|archive-date=24 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151124051811/http://www.rugbyschool.co.uk/school-life/houses/boys/sheriff/|url-status=dead}}</ref>|| Boys
|-
| Town House || 1567<ref>{{cite web|title=Rugby School – Town House|url=https://www.rugbyschool.co.uk/school-life/houses/boys/town-day/|access-date=28 March 2017|archive-date=24 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151124051554/http://www.rugbyschool.co.uk/school-life/houses/boys/town-day/|url-status=dead}}</ref>||Boys (Day)
|-
| Whitelaw || c.1790<ref>{{cite web|title=Rugby School Register, 1675–1842|url=https://rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk/PDFViewer/web/viewer.html?file=%2fFilename.ashx%3ftableName%3dta_schoolregisters%26columnName%3dfilename%26recordId%3d1|access-date=18 May 2021|archive-date=18 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210518154005/https://rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk/PDFViewer/web/viewer.html?file=%2FFilename.ashx%3FtableName%3Dta_schoolregisters%26columnName%3Dfilename%26recordId%3D1|url-status=live}} The Rugby School Register records on pp. xxii–xxiii that Whitelaw House, then run by Christopher Moor was in existence about 1790. The first boy to board out with Christopher Moor was Edward Watkin in 1796. The Moors opened the present House on its Hillmorton Road site in 1811.</ref>|| Boys
|-
| Bradley|| 1830 (1992)<ref>{{cite web|title=Rugby School – Bradley|url=https://www.rugbyschool.co.uk/school-life/houses/girls/bradley/|access-date=28 March 2017|archive-date=25 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151225152720/http://www.rugbyschool.co.uk/school-life/houses/girls/bradley|url-status=dead}}</ref>|| Girls
|-
| Dean || 1832 (1978)<ref>{{cite web|title=The History of Dean House|work=Rugby School Living Book |url=https://livingbook.rugbyschool.net/book/the-history-of-dean-house|access-date=28 March 2017|archive-date=28 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170328195857/https://livingbook.rugbyschool.net/book/the-history-of-dean-house|url-status=live}}</ref>|| Girls
|-
| Griffin|| 2003<ref>{{cite web|title=The History of Griffin House|url=https://livingbook.rugbyschool.net/book/the-history-of-griffin-house|access-date=28 March 2017|archive-date=28 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170328200051/https://livingbook.rugbyschool.net/book/the-history-of-griffin-house|url-status=dead}}</ref>|| Girls
|-
| Rupert Brooke || 1860 (1988)<ref>{{cite web|title=Rugby School – Rupert Brooke|url=https://www.rugbyschool.co.uk/school-life/houses/girls/rupert-brooke/|access-date=28 March 2017|archive-date=24 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151124051836/http://www.rugbyschool.co.uk/school-life/houses/girls/rupert-brooke/|url-status=dead}}</ref>|| Girls
|-
| Southfield || 1993<ref>{{cite web|title=Rugby School – Southfield (Day)|url=https://www.rugbyschool.co.uk/school-life/houses/girls/southfield-day/|access-date=28 March 2017|archive-date=24 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151124051841/http://www.rugbyschool.co.uk/school-life/houses/girls/southfield-day/|url-status=dead}}</ref>|| Girls (Day)
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| Stanley|| 1828 (1992)<ref>{{cite web|title=Rugby School – Stanley|url=https://www.rugbyschool.co.uk/school-life/houses/girls/stanley-6th-form-only/|access-date=28 March 2017|archive-date=24 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151124051720/http://www.rugbyschool.co.uk/school-life/houses/girls/stanley-6th-form-only/|url-status=dead}}</ref>|| Girls
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| Tudor || 1893 (2002)<ref>{{cite web|title=Rugby School – Tudor|url=https://www.rugbyschool.co.uk/school-life/houses/girls/tudor/|access-date=28 March 2017|archive-date=24 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151124051846/http://www.rugbyschool.co.uk/school-life/houses/girls/tudor/|url-status=dead}}</ref>||Girls
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== Academic life ==
Pupils beginning Rugby in the F Block (first year) study various subjects.<ref>{{cite web |title=F Block Curriculum Guide |url=https://www.rugbyschool.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/12040-Rugby-F-Block-curriculum-guide-2022-online-AW%C6%92.pdf |url-status=live |access-date=11 March 2022 |website= |archive-date=1 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220401221538/https://www.rugbyschool.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/12040-Rugby-F-Block-curriculum-guide-2022-online-AW%C6%92.pdf }}</ref> In a pupil's second year (E block), they do nine subjects which are for their GCSEs, this is the same for the D Block (GCSE year).<ref>{{cite web |title=E and D Block Curriculum Guide |url=https://www.rugbyschool.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/12022-Rugby-Middle-School-Curriculum-Guide-2022-online-AW%C6%92-ALT21.pdf |url-status=live |access-date=11 March 2022 |archive-date=1 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220401221838/https://www.rugbyschool.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/12022-Rugby-Middle-School-Curriculum-Guide-2022-online-AW%C6%92-ALT21.pdf }}</ref> The school then provides standard [[A-levels]] in 29 subjects. Students at this stage have the choice of taking three or four subjects and are also offered the opportunity to take an extended project. The School also offers taking the [[IB Diploma Programme]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Upper School Curriculum Guide |url=https://www.rugbyschool.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/12021-Rugby-Upper-School-Curriculum-Guide-2022-online-AW%C6%92-ALT21.pdf |url-status=live |access-date=11 March 2022 |archive-date=11 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220311225341/https://www.rugbyschool.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/12021-Rugby-Upper-School-Curriculum-Guide-2022-online-AW%C6%92-ALT21.pdf }}</ref>  [[Oxbridge]] acceptance percentage in 2007 was&nbsp;10.4%.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Education/documents/2007/09/20/100topoxbridge.pdf | title=Top 100 schools by Oxbridge admissions hit rate | url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150219025546/http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Education/documents/2007/09/20/100topoxbridge.pdf | archive-date=19 February 2015 }}</ref> In 2023, 68% of students that took A-levels at Rugby School scored A*/A while 83% of GCSE students scored 9/7.<ref>{{cite web |last=StudyLink |first=Britannia |date=22 July 2020 |title=Rugby School Guide: Reviews Rankings, Fees and More |url=https://britannia-study.com.my/uk-boarding-school/rugby-school |access-date=17 April 2024 |website=Britannia StudyLink Malaysia: UK Study Expert }}</ref>

===Scholarships===
The [[School governor|Governing Body]] provides financial benefits with school fees to families unable to afford them. Parents of pupils who are given a Scholarship are capable of obtaining a 10% fee deduction, although more than one scholarship can be awarded to one student.

== Fees ==

*Boarder fees per term: £19,640<ref name="Fees">{{cite web |title=Tatler fees guide |url=https://www.tatler.com/article/rugby-school-tatler-school-guide |website=Tatler |date=16 October 2020 |accessdate=1 February 2023 |archive-date=1 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230201204938/https://www.tatler.com/article/rugby-school-tatler-school-guide |url-status=live }}</ref>
*Day pupil fees per term: £12,450<ref name="Fees"/>

==Notable alumni ==
{{Main|List of Old Rugbeians}}
[[File:Rugby school.jpg|right|thumb|Rugby School from the side]]
There have been a number of notable [[:Category:People educated at Rugby School|Old Rugbeians]], including the purported father of the sport of Rugby [[William Webb Ellis]], the inventor of [[Australian rules football]], [[Tom Wills]], the war poets [[Rupert Brooke]] and [[John Gillespie Magee, Jr.]], Prime Minister [[Neville Chamberlain]], author and mathematician [[Lewis Carroll]], Prime Minister of France [[William Waddington]], poet and cultural critic [[Matthew Arnold]], the author and social critic [[Salman Rushdie]] (who said of his time there: "Almost the only thing I am proud of about going to Rugby school was that Lewis Carroll went there too."<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2011/jun/26/salman-rushdie-luka-fatwa-tim-adams Salman Rushdie: The Arab spring is a demand for desires and rights that are common to all human beings] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170301215340/https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2011/jun/26/salman-rushdie-luka-fatwa-tim-adams |date=1 March 2017 }}, ''The Daily Telegraph''</ref>) and the Irish writer and republican [[Francis Stuart]]. The Indian concert pianist, music composer and singer [[Adnan Sami]] also studied at Rugby School.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.india.com/topic/adnan-sami/|title=Adnan Sami|website=India.com|access-date=29 April 2019|archive-date=23 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190423055629/https://www.india.com/topic/adnan-sami/|url-status=live}}</ref> Matthew Arnold's father [[Thomas Arnold]], was a headmaster of the school. Philip Henry Bahr (later Sir [[Philip Manson-Bahr|Philip Henry Manson-Bahr]]), a zoologist and medical doctor, [[World War I]] veteran, was President of both [[Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene]] and [[Medical Society of London]], and vice-president of the [[British Ornithologists' Union]].<ref name="cpl">{{cite web|title=Sir Philip Henry Manson-Bahr|url=http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/2934|website=Lives of the fellows : Munk's Roll : Volume VI|publisher=Royal College of Physicians of London|access-date=3 December 2014|archive-date=5 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141205193407/http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/2934|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="BMJ1966">{{cite journal|title=Obituary Notices: Sir Philip Manson-Bahr, C.M.G., D.S.O., M.A., M.D., F.R.C.P., D.T.M.&H.|journal=British Medical Journal|year=1966|volume=2|issue=5525|pages=1332–1334|doi=10.1136/bmj.2.5525.1332|pmid=5332525|pmc=1944321}}</ref> [[Richard Talbot Kelly|Richard Barrett Talbot Kelly]] joined the army in 1915, straight after leaving the school, earned a [[Military Cross]] during the [[First World War]], and later returned to the school as Director of Art.<ref name="NAM">{{cite web |title=Lieutenant Richard Talbot Kelly |url=http://ww1.nam.ac.uk/stories/lieutenant-richard-talbot-kelly/ |website=National Army Museum, London |access-date=6 May 2019 |archive-date=5 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190505230822/http://ww1.nam.ac.uk/stories/lieutenant-richard-talbot-kelly/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The diplomat [[Frank Roberts (diplomat)|Sir Frank Kenyon Roberts]] was a pupil at Rugby in the 1920s.<ref>{{cite book |last=Colman |first=Jonathan |url=https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526180964/ |title=Britain's 'Mr X': Sir Frank Roberts and the Making of British Foreign Policy, 1930-68 |publisher=Manchester |year=2025 |isbn=9781526180964 |pages=15–16}}</ref>

===Rugbeian Society===
The Rugbeian Society is for former pupils at the school.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rugsoc.com/|title=Rugby School – (Development Office)|access-date=26 August 2015|archive-date=19 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151119065715/http://rugsoc.com/|url-status=dead}}</ref> An [[List of Old Rugbeians|Old Rugbeian]] is sometimes referred to as an OR.

The purposes of the society are to encourage and help Rugbeians in interacting with each other and to strengthen the ties between ORs and the school.

In 2010, the Rugbeians reached the semi-finals of the Public Schools' Old Boys' Sevens tournament, hosted by the Old Silhillians to celebrate the 450th anniversary of fellow Warwickshire public school, [[Solihull School]].

==Buildings and architecture==

The buildings of Rugby School date from the 18th and 19th century with some early 20th-century additions. The oldest buildings are the Old Quad Buildings and the School House the oldest parts of which date from 1748, but were mostly built between 1809 and 1813, designed by [[Henry Hakewill]], these are [[Grade II* listed buildings in Rugby (borough)|grade II* listed]].<ref>{{NHLE |desc=OLD QUAD BUILDINGS AT RUGBY SCHOOL |num=1035021 |access-date=3 September 2019}}</ref><ref>{{NHLE |desc=SCHOOL HOUSE AT RUGBY SCHOOL |num=1183930 |access-date=3 September 2019}}</ref>

Most of the current landmark buildings date from the [[Victorian era]] and were designed by [[William Butterfield]]: The most notable of these is the chapel, dating from 1872, which is topped by an  octagonal tower {{convert|138|ft|metre}} tall, and is [[grade I listed]].<ref>{{NHLE |desc=CHAPEL AT RUGBY SCHOOL|num=1183714|access-date=8 June 2021}}</ref><ref name="Pernell">{{cite book |last1=Pernell |first1=Sarah |title=Rugby |date=2006 |publisher=Francis Frith Collection |isbn=1-85937-620-7}}</ref> Butterfield's New Quad buildings are Grade II* listed and date from 1867 to 1885. The Grade II* War Memorial chapel, designed by [[Sir Charles Nicholson, 2nd Baronet|Sir Charles Nicholson]], dates to 1922.<ref>{{NHLE |desc=NEW QUAD BUILDINGS AT RUGBY SCHOOL |num=1035020 |access-date=3 September 2019}}</ref><ref>{{NHLE |desc=WAR MEMORIAL CHAPEL AT RUGBY SCHOOL|num=1365005 |access-date=3 September 2019}}</ref> Nicholson was educated at the school from the late-1870s.<ref>{{NHLE |desc=Tombstone of Sir Charles Nicholson and family|num=1472162 |access-date=2 October 2022}}</ref>

The ''Temple Speech Room'' on Barby Road was named after former Rugby headmaster, [[Frederick Temple]],<ref name="bhrs">{{cite web |title=A brief history of Rugby School, Flourishing in the 20th Century |url=https://www.rugbyschool.co.uk/about/history/ |access-date=25 December 2022 |archive-date=25 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221225190708/https://www.rugbyschool.co.uk/about/history/ |url-status=live }}</ref> It was opened on 3 July 1909 by [[King Edward VII]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Rugby School. Temple Speech Room, Opening|url=https://www.ourwarwickshire.org.uk/content/catalogue_wow/rugby-school-temple-speech-room-opening|access-date=1 January 2023|archive-date=1 January 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230101022620/https://www.ourwarwickshire.org.uk/content/catalogue_wow/rugby-school-temple-speech-room-opening|url-status=live}}</ref> Designed by [[Thomas Graham Jackson]], it is grade II listed.<ref>{{cite web |title=Temple Speech Room at Rugby School A Grade II Listed Building in Rugby, Warwickshire |url=https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101365016-temple-speech-room-at-rugby-school-rugby-eastlands-ward |publisher=British Listed Buildings |access-date=25 December 2022 |archive-date=25 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221225190706/https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101365016-temple-speech-room-at-rugby-school-rugby-eastlands-ward |url-status=live }}</ref> The [[Macready Theatre]] is based in a prominent Victorian building on Lawrence Sheriff Street which was built as classrooms in 1885, in 1975 it was converted into a theatre, in 2018, it was opened to the general public.<ref name="Theatreopens">{{cite web |title=First professional theatre in Rugby to open next week |url=https://rugbyobserver.co.uk/news/first-professional-theatre-in-rugby-to-open-next-week/ |publisher=[[Rugby Observer]] |accessdate=25 December 2022 |date=28 November 2018 |archive-date=25 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221225191845/https://rugbyobserver.co.uk/news/first-professional-theatre-in-rugby-to-open-next-week/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
<gallery mode="packed">
School House, Rugby School 10.21.jpg|The School House, of 1813
Rugby School .jpg|Old Quad Buildings of 1809-13
Rugby School buildings from Warwick Street 9.21 (2).JPG|From left to right; New Quad Buildings, Chapel and War Memorial Chapel.
Temple Speech Room, Rugby, 6.19.jpg|Temple Speech Room
Macready_Theatre,_6.19.jpg|[[Macready Theatre]]
</gallery>

== Head Masters ==
{{div col}}
* Richard Seele – ''1600''
* Nicolas Greenhill – ''1602''
* Augustus Rolfe – ''1606''
* Wiligent Greene – ''to 1642''
* Raphael Pearce – ''1642 to 1651''
* Peter Whitehead
* John Allen – ''to 1669''
* Knightley Harrison – ''1669 to 1674''
* Robert Aahbridge – ''1674 to 1681''
* Leonard Jeacocks – ''1681 to 1687''
* [[Henry Holyoake]] – ''1687 to 1730''
* John Plomer – ''1731 to 1742''
* Thomas Crossfield – ''1742 to 1744''
* William Knail – ''1744 to 1751''
* John Richmond – ''1751 to 1755''
* Stanley Burrough – ''1755 to 1778''
* Thomas James – ''1778 to 1794''
* Henry Ingles – ''1794 to 1806''
* John Wooll – ''1806 to 1827''
*[[Thomas Arnold]] – ''1828 to 1842''
*[[Archibald Campbell Tait]] – ''1842 to 1848''
*[[Meyrick Goulburn]] – ''1849 to 1857''
*[[Frederick Temple]] – ''1858 to 1869''
*[[Henry Hayman (educationist)|Henry Hayman]] – ''1870 to 1874''
*[[Thomas Jex-Blake|Thomas William Jex-Blake]] – ''1874 to 1887''
*[[John Percival (bishop)|John Percival]] – ''1887 to 1895''
*[[Herbert Armitage James]] – ''1895 to 1910''<ref name="Hist1842">John Barclay Hope Simpson, Rugby Since Arnold: A History of Rugby School from 1842,  Published by Macmillan, 1967</ref>
*[[Albert David (bishop)|Albert Augustus David]] – ''1910 to 1921''<ref name="Hist1842"/>
*[[William Wyamar Vaughan]] – ''1921 to 1931''<ref name="Hist1842"/>
*[[P. H. B. Lyon|Percy Hugh Beverley Lyon]] – ''1931 to 1948''<ref name="Hist1842"/>
*[[Arthur fforde|Arthur Frederic Brownlow fforde]] – ''1948 to 1957''<ref name="Hist1842"/>
*[[Walter Hamilton (Master of Magdalene College)|Walter Hamilton]] – ''1957 to 1966''<ref name="Hist1842"/>
*James Woodhouse – 1967 to 1980
*Brian Rees −1980 ''to 1985''<ref name="OfficialSiteTraditions">{{cite web|url=https://www.rugbyschool.co.uk/?o=1|title=Rugby School – Home|website=rugbyschool.co.uk|access-date=29 April 2019|archive-date=19 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210119221807/https://www.rugbyschool.co.uk/?o=1|url-status=live}}</ref>
*Richard Bull –    ''1985 to 1990''<ref name="OfficialSiteTraditions"/>
*Michael Mavor –   ''1990 to 2001''<ref name="OfficialSiteTraditions"/>
*[[Patrick Derham]] –  ''2001 to 2014''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rugbyschool.net/new-post-for-head-master|title=New Post for Head Master|access-date=26 August 2015|url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924092704/http://www.rugbyschool.net/new-post-for-head-master|archive-date=24 September 2015}}</ref>
*Peter Green 2014 – 2020<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rugbyschool.net/New-Head-Master-Announced|title=New Head Master Announced|access-date=26 August 2015|url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924092635/http://www.rugbyschool.net/New-Head-Master-Announced|archive-date=24 September 2015}}</ref>
*Peter Green (Executive Head Master) 2020–
*Gareth Parker Jones (Head) 2020–<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rugbyschool.co.uk/about/welcome-from-the-executive-head-master/rugby-school-senior-management-team/|access-date=26 August 2015|title=Rugby School - Rugby School Senior Management Team|archive-date=30 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200930161902/https://www.rugbyschool.co.uk/about/welcome-from-the-executive-head-master/rugby-school-senior-management-team/|url-status=live}}</ref>
{{div col end}}

===Thomas Arnold===
{{Main|Thomas Arnold}}
[[File:Rugby_School_-_ex_libris.tif|thumb|upright=1.2|[[Bookplate|Ex libris]] from Rugby School. From [[Biblioteca europea di informazione e cultura|BEIC]]]]
Rugby's most famous headmaster was Thomas Arnold, appointed in 1828; he executed many reforms to the school curriculum and administration. Arnold's and the school's reputations were immortalised through [[Thomas Hughes]]' book ''[[Tom Brown's School Days]].''

David Newsome writes about the new educational methods employed by Arnold in his book, 'Godliness and Good Learning' (Cassell 1961). He calls the morality practised at Arnold's school [[muscular Christianity]]. Arnold had three principles: religious and moral principle, gentlemanly conduct and academic performance. George Mosse, former professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, lectured on Arnold's time at Rugby. According to Mosse, Thomas Arnold created an institution which fused religious and moral principles, gentlemanly conduct, and learning based on self-discipline. These morals were socially enforced through the "Gospel of work". The object of education was to produce "the Christian gentleman", a man with good outward appearance, playful but earnest, industrious, manly, honest, virginal pure, innocent, and responsible.

===John Percival===
{{Main|John Percival (bishop)}}
In 1888 the appointment of [[Marie Bethell Beauclerc]] by Percival was the first appointment of a female teacher in an English boys' public school and the first time [[shorthand]] had been taught in any such school. The shorthand course was popular with one hundred boys in the classes.

== Controversy ==
In September 2005, the school was one of fifty independent schools operating [[Independent school fee fixing scandal|independent school fee-fixing]], in breach of the [[Competition Act 1998|Competition Act, 1998]]. All of the schools involved were ordered to abandon this practice, pay a nominal penalty of £10,000 each and to make ex-gratia payments totalling three million pounds into a trust designed to benefit pupils who attended the schools during the period in respect of which fee information had been shared.<ref>{{cite news|last=Halpin|first=Halpin|title=Independent schools face huge fines over cartel to fix fees|newspaper=[[The Times]]|url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/education/article/independent-schools-face-huge-fines-over-cartel-to-fix-fees-rcwcznjnvnt|access-date=29 February 2020|issn=0140-0460|archive-date=12 September 2012|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120912214704/http://www.pressmon.com/cgi-bin/press_view.cgi?id=991819|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|date=21 December 2006|title=Office of Fair Trading Press Release|url=https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20100402135855tf_/http://www.oft.gov.uk/news/press/2006/182-06|access-date=29 February 2020|website=National Ara chive|archive-date=29 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200229203612/https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20100402135855tf_/http://www.oft.gov.uk/news/press/2006/182-06|url-status=live}}</ref>

The head of the Independent Schools Council declared that independent schools had always been exempt from anti-cartel rules applied to business, were following a long-established procedure in sharing the information with each other and that they were unaware of the change to the law (on which they had not been consulted). She wrote to [[John Vickers]], the OFT director-general, stating "They are not a group of businessmen meeting behind closed doors to fix the price of their products to the disadvantage of the consumer. They are schools that have quite openly continued to follow a long-established practice because they were unaware that the law had changed."<ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1455730/Private-schools-send-papers-to-fee-fixing-inquiry.html | title = Private schools send papers to fee-fixing inquiry | newspaper = The Daily Telegraph | location = London | date = 3 January 2004 | access-date = 13 May 2021 |url-status = live| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130625070958/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1455730/Private-schools-send-papers-to-fee-fixing-inquiry.html | archive-date = 25 June 2013 | df = dmy-all }}</ref>

==See also==
*[[List of schools in the West Midlands]]
*[[Four Rugby Boys]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Further reading==
* Carter, George David. "The extent to which the novel" Tom Brown's Schooldays",(1857), by Thomas Hughes, accurately reflects the ideas, purposes and policies of Dr. Thomas Arnold in Rugby School, 1828–1842." (MA thesis, Kansas State U, 1967).  [http://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/2097/26235/LD2668T41967C32.pdf?sequence=1 online]
* Hope-Simpson, John Barclay. ''Rugby Since Arnold: A History of Rugby School from 1842.'' (1967).
* Mack, Edward Clarence. ''Public schools and British opinion, 1780 to 1860: An examination of the relationship between contemporary ideas and the evolution of an English institution'' (1938), comparison with other elite schools
* Neddam*, Fabrice. "Constructing masculinities under Thomas Arnold of Rugby (1828–1842): gender, educational policy and school life in an early‐Victorian public school." ''Gender and Education'' 16.3 (2004): 303–326.
* Rouse, W.H.D.  ''A history of Rugby School'' (1898) [https://books.google.com/books?id=WRIOAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22Rugby+School%22&pg=PR5 online].

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