Winchester College

Winchester College is a public school in the city of Winchester in Hampshire, in the south of England. It is the 'original' public school and the model for later schools like Eton and Harrow. Officially called "Collegium Santae Mariae prope Wintoniensem", or "St. Mary's College outside Winchester", although the only time this name is used is when the college is being contacted by the water board. Instead, the college is commonly referred to as "Win: Coll:" or just "Winchester". Winchester has existed for over six hundred years and claims to have the longest unbroken history of any school in England.

Former pupils

Famous former pupils (Old Wykehamists) include:

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• Henry Chichele, Archbishop of Canterbury
• Thomas Beckington, statesman
• Richard Pace, diplomat
• William Grocyn, scholar
• William Warham, Archbishop of Canterbury
• Roger Ascham, scholar and writer
• Henry Wotton, author and diplomat
• John Davies, poet
• Thomas James, librarian
• Edward Nicholas, statesman
• Thomas Otway, dramatist
• Sir Thomas Browne, polymath, scholar
• William Somerville, poet
• Edward Young, poet
• Robert Lowth, Bishop of London
• Edward Wortley Montagu, author
• William Collins, poet
• Joseph Warton, literary critic and academic
• Thomas Warton, Poet Laureate
• Thomas Burgess, author
• William Lisle Bowles, poet
• Richard Mant, writer
• William Page Wood, 1st Baron Hatherley, Lord Chancellor
• Christopher Wordsworth, Bishop of Lincoln
• Robert Lowe, 1st Viscount Sherbrooke, statesman
• Anthony Trollope, author
• George Bruce Malleson, author
• Samuel Rawson Gardiner, historian
• Richard Bickerton Pemell Lyons, 2nd Baron Lyons, 1st Viscount and Earl Lyons, diplomat
• William Sealey Gosset, chemist
• G. H. Hardy, mathematician
• Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, general
• George Mallory, climber of Mount Everest
• Arnold J. Toynbee
• Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, Battle of Britain commander
• Sir Oswald Mosley, fascist leader
• Hugh Gaitskell, leader of the Labour Party
• Richard Crossman, Labour politican and diarist
• Dr Robert Conquest, historian specialising in Stalin's purges
• Geoffrey Howe, Lord Howe of Aberavon, politician
• George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie, Tory MP
• Freeman Dyson, Physicist and Mathematician
• Tim Brooke-Taylor, comedian
• William Donaldson, creator of Henry Root
• Sir Richard Noble, designer of the ThrustSSC
• Joss Whedon, television scriptwriter
• Hugh Dancy, actor