City of London School

The City of London School is an independent boys' school on the banks of the River Thames in the City of London in London, England. It is the brother school of the City of London School for Girls (a girls' school within the Barbican). Intake is from age 10 to 18, although many of its pupils enter at age 11 and somewhat fewer at age 13.

Famous Old Citizens (Old Boys)

• Edwin Abbott Abbott - Schoolmaster, theologian and author
• Arthur Rackham - illustrator
• Kingsley Amis - Writer
• Herbert Asquith - Prime Minister 1908-1916
• Frederick Gowland Hopkins - Nobel prize winner
• Julian Barnes - Novelist
• Mike Brearley - Cricketer
• Ralph Knott - Architect
• Luke McShane - Chess Grandmaster
• Charles Thomson Ritchie - Chancellor of the Exchequer 1902-1903
• John Robert Seeley - Historian and essayist