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Dulwich College
Dulwich College is a public school (that is, an independent, fee-paying secondary school) in Dulwich, in south east London, England.
There are two other schools in the same foundation, JAGS and Alleyn's.
The school has also founded two international schools in Phuket and Shanghai.
History
Dulwich College was founded in 1619 by Edward Alleyn, a successful Elizabethan actor and contemporary of Ben Jonson and William Shakespeare. Its original purpose was the education of 12 poor scholars.
The School was reconstituted by act of Parliament in 1857, when it moved from its old site in Dulwich Village, where the chapel still remains, and built on its present site. The New College buildings were designed in a hybrid of Palladian and Gothic styles in red brick and terracotta, by Charles Barry Junior (the eldest son of Sir Charles Barry, who designed the Houses of Parliament).
The reformed school's new master, Carver, was the first master not to share the name of the school's founder "Alleyn" (or latterly "Allen"). Upon the reform the school was split in two, with the "A" stream moving up to the new location, and the "B" stream staying in the village for the time being, becoming "Alleyn's School", which now exists on the other side of Dulwich Village.
Although it has always been a private foundation, for some time in the middle part of the 20th century a large percentage of the pupils were on full scholarships funded by local authorities in and around Greater London. These "assisted places" gradually disappeared and were abolished in 1997.
Alumni
- Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) writer
- Chiwetel Ejiofor (born 1976) film actor
- Edward George (born 1938) Governor of the Bank of England
- Gordon Jacob (1895-1984) composer
- Phil Manzanera musician
- Bob Monkhouse (though expelled)
- Michael Ondaatje (born 1943) writer
- Anthony Payne (born 1936) composer, "elaborated" the sketches of Elgar's 3rd symphony
- Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922) explorer
- Hartley William Shawcross (1902-2003) lawyer and politician, lead British prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials
- Graham Swift (born 1949) writer
- P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975) writer
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