It was difficult to appoint and retain adequate staff, and between 19 the school was forced to share its premises with a school evacuated from Birmingham. During the Second World War, the number of boys grew, increasing to 450 by 1946. Bishop served the school from 1936 to 1962. In 1933, he was succeeded by Eric Percival Smith, who also did not stay long, leaving in 1936. His time in charge was controversial and was marred by two arson attacks in 1930. Riding, previously a housemaster at Rugby School, saw himself as a "new broom sweeping clean", after the school had undergone some decline. Pyne paid for the chapel gallery and west window as a war memorial. Eighty-eight Old Warwickians, including Pyne's son, were killed, as well as two former schoolmasters. The First World War had a shattering effect on the school. By the late 1920s, there were almost 400 boys in the school, including 146 boarders, almost double the planned number. Pyne, headmaster from 1906 to 1928, the school rapidly grew in numbers. Victorian era: growth followed by crisis Schoolmasters in the 17th century included the epigrammatist John Owen (1595–1622) and Rev Thomas DuGard (1633–49), later Rector of Barford Church, who recorded the history and daily life of the school in his Latin diary.Īround 1697 the school moved to the disused medieval buildings of the Vicars Choral in St Mary's churchyard, and stayed there for the next 200 years. Later it moved again to St Peter's Chapel, now part of King's High School. In 1545 King Henry VIII re-founded the school as "The King's New Scole of Warwyke" and the new grammar school moved to what is now the Lord Leycester Hospital. By 1477 lessons were held in the old church of St John the Baptist in the Market Place. Warwick School was active in the time of King Edward the Confessor (1042–1066) and probably for at least a century earlier, most likely in the grounds of Warwick Castle. The town of Warwick was first recorded in the 9th and 10th century Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in 914 during the rule of Æthelflæd, daughter of Alfred the Great.
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The school is part of the Warwick Independent Schools Foundation, which also owns The King's High School for Girls and Warwick Preparatory School. Its headmasters have been members of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference since 1896. It may also be the oldest surviving school founded by a woman and the oldest boys' public school in the world.
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Known until about 1900 as King's School, Warwick, it is believed to have been founded by Æthelflæd of Mercia in 914 AD, making it the fifth-oldest surviving school in England, after King's School, Canterbury King's School, Rochester St Peter's School, York and Wells Cathedral School. Warwick School is a selective, independent day and boarding school in Warwick, England in the public school tradition. (Old Warwickians) Maroon, Black and White