From Forms to Blocks Today students study in year groups, usually based on their age. However, this has not always been the case, particularly in the eighteenth and nineteenth century when groups were based on academic a… 0 2024 17/10/2024
The Exhibition of the telephone at Rugby School As part of its 300th Anniversary year in 1867, Rugby School founded a Natural History Society which would be active until the early 2000s. In 1876 Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, two ye… 0 2024 17/09/2024
Masters in the 1500s Rugby School was founded as grammar school in 1567 and in that century three Masters were appointed to run the School. Originally there was only one master (teacher) to teach the boys and run the Sc… 0 2024 12/09/2024
Rugby and Co-Education Part 1 In 1870 Frederick Temple was appointed chair of the Rugby School Governing Body. In 1871 he established The Laurels School, for the daughters of Rugby School Masters, the girls used the classrooms in… 0 2024 06/08/2024
The Great Rebellion of 1797 For this blog we are reprinting the story of The Great Rebellion which took place at Rugby School in November 1797. This version was published in The Laurentian February 1898. “We passed last term t… 0 2024 16/07/2024
Lawrence Sheriff[e] Rugby School was founded in 1567 by Lawrence Sheriff, who left money in his will for a Grammar School in the town of Rugby for local boys. This blog gives a short account of his life. According to s… 0 2024 01/07/2024
Arthur John Dorman (Michell 1895-1900) Arthur John Dorman joined Rugby School in 1895 and left for Trinity College Cambridge in 1900, his House Master was W G Michell. In 1899 he was made a member of the School XV and awarded a Following-… 0 2023 19/04/2023
Rugby Football in New Zealand The history of New Zealand rugby football starts with the New Zealand Nelson Football Club in 1870. In 1867, having turned 16, Charles J Monro left for England to be educated for a possible career i… 0 1870 09/02/2023
Rupert Brooke Biography Rupert Chawner Brooke was born at 5 Hillmorton Street Rugby on August 3, 1887. He was the third son of William Parker Brooke. During his childhood and as a pupil at Rugby School Rupert lived in Brook… 0 1887 01/02/2023
Dean, Geoffrey John, age 16 Cock 2nd House 1925 John Geoffrey Dean played the School XV from 1926-27. He debuted for the Harlequins in the February 14 England XV v Ireland match at Twickenham London 1931. According to the match report, ‘it was a c… 0 1925 01/02/2023
Association Football/Soccer at Rugby School Since the mid-eighteenth-century Rugby School has been playing a form of football distinctive from other forms of football. Association Football/Soccer was not played at the School until the late nin… 0 1871 01/02/2023
William Webb Ellis William Webb Ellis was born on 24th November 1806 in Salford in Lancashire. His father was James Ellis, a cornet in the 7th Dragoon Guards, in 1809 he was made a Lieutenant of the 3rd Dragoon Guards,… 0 1806 01/02/2023
