OLDEST SCHOOL TIE
The news that the King's School, Canterbury, and St. Edmund's School, of the same city, have now combined in temporary quarters in Cornwall is a reminder that King's School is one. of the many with claims to the title of oldest foundation, says the 'Manchester Guardian." St. Edmund's (1749) is comparatively modern, but King's has traced its origin back to the times of Ethelbert and Augustine founded _ Ethelbert and Augustine. Indeed, it is said that Augustine founded the school in the seventh century. Against this St "Peter's School, York, basing its claim on records in York Minster, says that its Royal School existed in the sixth century and numbers among its headmasters Wilfrid, later a seventhcentury Archbishop of York, and Alcuin. St. Peter's, however, moved nearly a hundred years ago to the outskirts of York—a loss in continuity. Durham School is said to have existed for "some centuries" before its reconstitution in 1414, and Carlisle Grammar School is of twelfth-century origin. King's School, Rochester, founded early in the seventh century and reconstituted in 1542, is another contender, and the title of King Alfred's School, Wantage, suggests the imminence of a challenge from that quarter.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 92, 15 October 1940, Page 10
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197OLDEST SCHOOL TIE Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 92, 15 October 1940, Page 10
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