ENG410 - Charles Dickens

The Rugby School


     
  • Founded in 1567; boy's prep school
     
  • "mens sana in carpare sano" - strived for body and mental health
     
  • Thomas Arnold, 1828-1842, headmaster; ordained Anglican minister
     
  • ran by senior boys
     
  • founded rugby; William Web Ellis
     
  • Rugby Football Union founded 1871
     
  • Matthew Arnold (son of Thomas Arnold), Thomas Hughes - graduates
     
  • still around; girls first admitted in 1976
     
  • foremost prep school during Victorian times; for the elite





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