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Arnold Lodge School
Arnold Lodge School is a co-educational independent school in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England, founded in 1864. The school has 268 day pupils, ranging from kindergarten, aged three, to GCSE pupils aged sixteen. Sixth Form pupils will be admitted from September 2013.
The school is based in central Royal Leamington Spa, housed in a mixture of Victorian and modern buildings. Originally a dame school kept by Mrs Worthington at 2 Lillington Place, Leamington Spa, the school was in 1864 taken over by a former Assistant Master at Leamington College, Mr Alfred Kirk. An admirer of Dr Thomas Arnold of Rugby School, he named the school Arnold Lodge School. Originally the oldest prep school in Warwickshire, it extended its admission age to the GCSE years in 2008 and will launch Sixth Form provision in September 2013. The school will celebrate its 150th anniversary in 2014.
The school operates a house system, with houses called Tudor, Saxon, Stuart, and Windsor. The houses compete in sport and the arts, such as house music, drama, photography and art.

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England
England ⁱ/ˈɪŋɡlənd/ is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, while the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separate it from continental Europe. Most of England comprises the central and southern part of the island of Great Britain in the North Atlantic. The country also includes over 100 smaller islands such as the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Wight.
The area now called England was first inhabited by modern humans during the Upper Palaeolithic period, but it takes its name from the Angles, one of the Germanic tribes who settled during the 5th and 6th centuries. England became a unified state in AD 927, and since the Age of Discovery, which began during the 15th century, has had a significant cultural and legal impact on the wider world. The English language, the Anglican Church, and English law—the basis for the common law legal systems of many other countries around the world—developed in England, and the country's parliamentary system of government has been widely adopted by other nations. The Industrial Revolution began in 18th-century England, transforming its society into the world's first industrialised nation. England's Royal Society laid the foundations of modern experimental science.

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Exhall Grange School
Exhall Grange School and Science College is a community special school located in Ash Green just outside Coventry in Warwickshire, England. The school caters for pupils ranging in age from two to 19 years, and who have a range of disabilities and learning difficulties, including physical disability, visual impairment and Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Opened in 1951 as a school for visually impaired pupils, Exhall Grange was the first school to cater exclusively for partially sighted children. It later widened its remit to include pupils with other disabilities, and became a grammar school in 1960. Under the stewardship of one of its best known headmasters, George Marshall OBE, the school gained an international reputation for the quality of its education, while Marshall himself became a leading expert on the education and welfare of visually impaired people. Marshall's successor, Richard Bignell, steered the school towards a more comprehensive approach to education, and as a visually impaired person himself championed the use of computers as an aid to learning.

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Warwickshire
Warwickshire (ⁱ/ˈwɒrɨkʃər/ or /ˈwɒrɨkʃɪər/) is a landlocked non-metropolitan county in the West Midlands region of England. The county town is Warwick, although the largest town is Nuneaton. The county is famous for being the birthplace of William Shakespeare and George Elliot. Commonly used abbreviations for the county are Warks or Warwicks.
The five districts of North Warwickshire, Nuneaton & Bedworth, Rugby, Warwick and Stratford-on-Avon together form the Warwickshire County Council area, and are within the 1974 boundaries. The shape of the administrative area of Warwickshire differs considerably from that of the historic county, which also includes the now autonomous unitary authorities of Coventry and Solihull, as well as a small area around central and northeast Birmingham.
For Eurostat purposes it is a NUTS 3 region (code UKG13) and is one of three counties that comprise the "Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire" NUTS 2 region.
Warwickshire is bounded to the north-west by the West Midlands metropolitan county and Staffordshire, by Leicestershire to the north-east, Northamptonshire to the east, Worcestershire to the west, Oxfordshire to the south and Gloucestershire to the south-west. The northern tip of the county is only 3 miles (5 km) from the Derbyshire border. An average-sized English county covering an area of almost 2,000 km², it runs some 60 miles (97 km) north to south.

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Eric Partridge
Eric Honeywood Partridge (6 February 1894 – 1 June 1979) was a New Zealand/British lexicographer of the English language, particularly of its slang. His writing career was interrupted only by his service in the Army Education Corps and the RAF correspondence department during World War II. Partridge died in Moretonhampstead, Devon, in 1979.
Partridge was born in Waimata Valley, near Gisborne, on the North Island of New Zealand to John Thomas Partridge, a grazier, and his wife Ethel Annabella Norris. In 1907 the family moved to Queensland, Australia, where he was educated at the Toowoomba Grammar School. He then studied first classics and then French and English at the University of Queensland. During this time Partridge also taught for three years as a school teacher before enrolling in the Australian Imperial Force in April 1915 and serving in the Australian infantry during the First World War, serving in Egypt, Gallipoli and on the Western Front, before being wounded in the Battle of Pozières. His interest in slang and the "underside" of language is said to date from his wartime experience.^{[citation needed]} Partridge returned to university between 1919 and 1921, when he received his BA.

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Henry Holyoake
Henry Holyoake (1657–1731) was a headmaster of Rugby School for more than forty years in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Holyoake was probably born in Warwickshire in 1657, the son of Thomas Holyoake and Anne his wife, and the grandson of Francis Holyoake. He was elected to a choristership at Magdalen College, Oxford, which he resigned in 1676, having matriculated from that college on 12 March 1674. He became clerk and sub-librarian in 1676, appointments which he held until 1681. On 22 Oct. 1678 he graduated B.A., proceeded M.A. on 4 July 1681, and was chaplain of his college from 1681 until 1690.
In 1687 he was elected headmaster of Rugby School. Despite the smallness of his salary and other disadvantages, he raised the school from insignificance, and was the first to engage an assistant master. He seems, however, to have unfortunately misunderstood the character of one of his best-known pupils, Edward Cave, whom he treated with undeserved severity, and eventually drove from the school. Cave, however, inserted a sympathetic obituary in the Gentleman’s Magazine.

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Lawrence Sheriff
Lawrence Sheriff (or Sheriffe) (c. 1510-1567) was an Elizabethan gentleman and grocer to Elizabeth I who endowed Rugby School.
Not much is known about Lawrence Sheriff's early life, but it thought that he was born near St. Andrew's Church in Rugby, Warwickshire. (Another theory places the location as a house in the nearby village of Brownsover that is still extant.) Sheriff was apprenticed by his father to a London grocer named William Walcott, at which point he went to London. His apprenticeship ended in 1541, and he became a London grocer during the reign of King Henry VIII. In 1554 he was elected to the 'Worshipful Company of Grocers'.
Sheriff became grocer to many of the great and good of the day including Princess (later Queen) Elizabeth. He became trusted by the Queen and rose to the rank of gentleman, whereupon he was granted a coat of arms, the main feature of which is a griffin, the traditional guardian of treasures. He bought extensive property near London and in the area of Rugby and Brownsover.

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Lewis Carroll
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson ( /ˈtʃɑrlz ˈlʌtwɪdʒ ˈdɒdʒsən/ CHARLZ LUDT-wij DOJ-sən; 27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by the pseudonym Lewis Carroll (/ˈkærəl/ KARR-əl), was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, as well as the poems "The Hunting of the Snark" and "Jabberwocky", all examples of the genre of literary nonsense. He is noted for his facility at word play, logic, and fantasy, and there are societies dedicated to the enjoyment and promotion of his works and the investigation of his life in many parts of the world, including the United Kingdom, Japan, the United States, and New Zealand.
Dodgson's family was predominantly northern English, with Irish connections. Conservative and High Church Anglican, most of Dodgson's ancestors were army officers or Church of England clergy. His great-grandfather, also named Charles Dodgson, had risen through the ranks of the church to become the Bishop of Elphin. His grandfather, another Charles, had been an army captain, killed in action in Ireland in 1803 when his two sons were hardly more than babies. His mother's name was Frances Jane Lutwidge.

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Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold (24 December 1822 – 15 April 1888) was a British poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools. He was the son of Thomas Arnold, the famed headmaster of Rugby School, and brother to both Tom Arnold, literary professor, and William Delafield Arnold, novelist and colonial administrator. Matthew Arnold has been characterized as a sage writer, a type of writer who chastises and instructs the reader on contemporary social issues.
The Reverend John Keble, who would become one of the leaders of the Oxford Movement, stood as godfather to Matthew. "Thomas Arnold admired Keble's 'hymns' in The Christian Year, only reversing himself with exasperation when this old friend became a Romeward-tending 'High Church' reactionary in the 1830s." In 1828, Arnold's father was appointed Headmaster of Rugby School and his young family took up residence, that year, in the Headmaster's house. In 1831, Arnold was tutored by his uncle, the Reverend John Buckland, at Laleham, Middlesex. In 1834, the Arnolds occupied a holiday home, Fox How, in the Lake District. William Wordsworth was a neighbour and close friend. In 1836, Arnold was sent to Winchester College, but in 1837 he returned to Rugby School where he was enrolled in the fifth form. He moved to the sixth form in 1838 and thus came under the direct tutelage of his father. He wrote verse for the manuscript Fox How Magazine produced by Matthew and his brother Tom for the family's enjoyment from 1838 to 1843. During his years as a Rugby student, he won school prizes for English essay writing, and Latin and English poetry. His prize poem, "Alaric at Rome," was printed at Rugby.

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Matthew Bloxam
Matthew Holbeche Bloxam (12 May 1805 – 24 April 1888), a native of Rugby, Warwickshire, England, was an amateur archeologist and Warwickshire antiquary. He was the original source of the legend of William Webb Ellis inventing the game of Rugby football.
Bloxam's father was an assistant master at Rugby School. He was educated at Elborow School before attending Rugby himself between 1813 and 1820. In 1821 he was articled to a solicitor but he did not find success in the profession when he went into practice on his own account. In 1831 he became clerk of the court and held the post for 40 years.
He is remembered as an antiquarian on Rugby and the local area, in 1836 he successfully located the Roman town of Tripontium near Rugby. His work was published in two books and many journal articles though many of his conclusions are now thought doubtful, his collection of archaeological finds still exists.
His Principles of Gothic Architecture, first published in 1829, was described by Charles Locke Eastlake as "a small but well digested volume admirably adapted for the use of amateurs". It proved popular, reaching a tenth edition by 1859. A German edition was published in 1847, and a much expanded three-volume eleventh edition in 1882.

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Neville Chamberlain
Arthur Neville Chamberlain FRS (18 March 1869 – 9 November 1940) was a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 1937 to May 1940. Chamberlain is best known for his appeasement foreign policy, and in particular for his signing of the Munich Agreement in 1938, conceding the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia to Germany. When Adolf Hitler continued his aggression by invading Poland, Britain declared war on Germany on 3 September 1939, and Chamberlain led Britain through the first eight months of the Second World War.
After working in business and local government and after a short spell as Director of National Service in 1916 and 1917, Chamberlain followed his father and older half-brother in becoming a Member of Parliament in the 1918 general election at age 49. He declined a junior ministerial position, remaining a backbencher until 1922. He was rapidly promoted in 1923 to Minister of Health and then Chancellor of the Exchequer. After a short Labour-led government, he returned as Minister of Health, introducing a range of reform measures from 1924 to 1929. He was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer in the National Government in 1931.

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Richard Lindon
Richard Lindon (30 June 1816 - 10 June 1887) was an English leatherworker who was instrumental in the development of the modern-day rugby ball by advancing the craft for ball, rubber bladder, and air pump.
Lindon set up home and shop at 6/6a Lawrence Sheriff Street, Rugby, England, immediately opposite the front doors of the Quadrangle of the Rugby School. As a boot and shoemaker, Lindon supplied footwear to the townsfolk of Rugby including the teachers and pupils of the school.
Balls in those days were not spherical, but more plum-shaped. This was because a pig's bladder was inflated by mouth through the snapped stem of a clay pipe then encased in panels of stitched leather. As such, the individual bladder dictated the shape of each ball.
By 1849, Lindon, now aged 33, who naturally had regular supplies of boot leather delivered, found himself bombarded by the boys of Rugby School to manufacture footballs for them. Lindon and his wife worked flat-out producing more balls than shoes.
Mrs. Lindon, besides being mother to 17 children, was the official "green" pig's bladder inflator. Blowing pig's bladders was not without its hazards. If the pig was diseased, it was going into Mrs. Lindon's lungs. Eventually Mrs. Lindon blew on enough infected pig's bladders to fall ill and consequently die.

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Rupert Brooke
Rupert Chawner Brooke (middle name sometimes given as "Chaucer") (3 August 1887 – 23 April 1915) was an English poet known for his idealistic war sonnets written during the First World War, especially "The Soldier". He was also known for his boyish good looks, which were said to have prompted the Irish poet W. B. Yeats to describe him as "the handsomest young man in England".
Brooke was born at 5 Hillmorton Road in Rugby, Warwickshire, the second of the three sons of William Parker Brooke, a Rugby schoolmaster, and Ruth Mary Brooke, née Cotterill. He was educated at two independent schools in the market town of Rugby, Warwickshire; Hillbrow School and Rugby School in England.
While travelling in Europe he prepared a thesis entitled John Webster and the Elizabethan Drama, which won him a scholarship to King's College, Cambridge, where he became a member of the Cambridge Apostles, helped found the Marlowe Society drama club and acted in plays including the Cambridge Greek Play.
Brooke made friends among the Bloomsbury group of writers, some of whom admired his talent while others were more impressed by his good looks. Virginia Woolf boasted to Vita Sackville-West of once going skinny-dipping with Brooke in a moonlit pool when they were at Cambridge together.

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Salman Rushdie
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie (Hindi: अहमद सलमान रुशदी (Devanagari), احمد سلمان رشدی (Nastaʿlīq); /sælˈmɑːn ˈrʊʃdi/; born 19 June 1947) is a British Indian novelist and essayist. His second novel, Midnight's Children (1981), won the Booker Prize in 1981. Much of his fiction is set on the Indian subcontinent. He is said to combine magical realism with historical fiction; his work is concerned with the many connections, disruptions and migrations between East and West.
His fourth novel, The Satanic Verses (1988), was the centre of a major controversy, provoking protests from Muslims in several countries, some violent. Death threats were made against him, including a fatwā issued by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader of Iran, on 14 February 1989.
Rushdie was appointed Commandeur dans Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France in January 1999. In June 2007, Queen Elizabeth II dubbed him Knight Bachelor for his services to literature. In 2008, The Times ranked him thirteenth on its list of the fifty greatest British writers since 1945.

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Thomas Arnold
Dr Thomas Arnold (13 June 1795 – 12 June 1842) was a British educator and historian. Arnold was an early supporter of the Broad Church Anglican movement. He was headmaster of Rugby School from 1828 to 1841, where he introduced a number of reforms.
Arnold was born on the Isle of Wight, the son of William Arnold, an inland revenue officer, and his wife Martha Delafield. He was educated at Lord Weymouth's Grammar School, Warminster, Winchester, and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. There he excelled at Classics and was made a fellow of Oriel in 1815. He was headmaster of a school in Laleham before moving to Rugby.
Arnold's appointment to the headship of Rugby School in 1828, after some years as a private tutor, turned the school's fortunes around, and his force of character and religious zeal enabled him to turn it into a model followed by the other public schools, exercising an unprecedented influence on the educational system of the country. Though he introduced history, mathematics and modern languages, he based his teaching on the classic languages. "I assume it as the foundation of all my view of the case, that boys at a public school never will learn to speak or pronounce French well, under any circumstances", so it would be enough if they could "learn it grammatically as a dead language". Physical science was not taught, since in Arnold's view "it must either take the chief place in the school curriculum, or it must be left out altogether". He developed the Praeposter (prefect) system in which order was kept in the school by the top, sixth, form who were given powers over every part of the school, carefully managed by himself. The novel, Tom Brown's Schooldays portrays a generation of boys "who feared the Doctor with all our hearts, and very little besides in heaven or earth; who thought more of our sets in the School than of the Church of Christ, and put the traditions of Rugby and the public opinion of boys in our daily life above the laws of God".

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Thomas Hughes
Thomas Hughes (20 October 1822 – 22 March 1896) was an English lawyer and author. He is most famous for his novel Tom Brown's School Days (1857), a semi-autobiographical work set at Rugby School, which Hughes had attended. It had a lesser-known sequel, Tom Brown at Oxford (1861).
Hughes was the second son of John Hughes, editor of the Boscobel Tracts (1830). Thomas Hughes was born in Uffington, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire). He had six brothers, and one sister, Jane Senior who later became Britain's first female civil servant. At the age of eight he was sent to Twyford School, a preparatory public school near Winchester, where he remained until the age of eleven. In February 1834 he went to Rugby School, which was then under Dr Thomas Arnold, a contemporary of his father at Oriel College, Oxford, and the most influential British schoolmaster of the 19th century. Though never a member of the sixth form, his impressions of the headmaster were intensely reverent, and Arnold was afterwards idealised as the perfect schoolmaster in Hughes's novel. Hughes excelled at sports rather than in scholarship, and his school career culminated in a cricket match at Lord's Cricket Ground. In 1842 he went on to Oriel College, Oxford, and graduated B.A. in 1845. He was called to the bar in 1848, became Queen's Counsel in 1869 and a bencher in 1870, and was appointed to a county court judgeship in the Chester district in July 1882.

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Thomas Jex-Blake
The Very Rev Dr Thomas William Jex-Blake (26 Jan 1832 - 2 July 1915) was an eminentAnglican clergyman and educationalist.
He was born in 1832 the son of lawyer Thomas Jex-Blake and the brother of Sophia Jex-Blake and educated at Rugby and University College, Oxford. He began a career as a school master at Marlborough and was then Assistant Master at Rugby. From 1868 to 1874 he was Principal of Cheltenham College and from 1874 to 1887 was Headmaster of Rugby then Rector of Alvechurch.
In 1891 he was appointed Dean of Wells, a post he held for a decade. He died on 2 July 1915.
He had married Henrietta Cordery in 1857: they had two sons and nine daughters. One son was Arthur John Jex-Blake, a successful doctor and a daughter was Katharine Jex-Blake.

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Tom Wills
Thomas Wentworth "Tom" Wills (19 August 1835 – 2 May 1880) was a 19th-century sportsman who is considered one of the pioneers of the sport of Australian rules football. Also a notable cricketer, Wills played first-class matches for Victoria, Kent, and the Marylebone Cricket Club.
Born in the British colony of New South Wales, Wills grew up on properties owned by his father, the noted pastoralist Horatio Wills, near Gundagai and Ararat, in what is now the Australian state of Victoria. At the age of 14, Wills was sent to England to attend Rugby School, where he learnt the sport of cricket, as well as an early version of what is now called Rugby football. During his period in England, Wills attended Cambridge University, though he did not matriculate, and played first-class cricket matches for Kent and the Marylebone Cricket Club, as well as representing the university's cricket club in the annual match against Oxford. At this stage, he was described as one of the finest young cricketers in England by Bell's Sporting Life.

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William Butterfield
William Butterfield was a Gothic Revival architect and associated with the Oxford Movement (or Tractarian Movement). He is noted for his use of polychromy
William Butterfield was born in London in 1814. His parents were strict non-conformists who ran a chemist's shop in the Strand. He was one of nine children and was educated at a local school. At the age of 16, he was apprenticed to Thomas Arber, a builder in Pimlico, who later became bankrupt. He studied architecture under E. L. Blackburne (1833–1836). From 1838 to 1839, he was an assistant to Harvey Eginton, an architect in Worcester, where he became articled. He established his own architectural practice at Lincoln's Inn Fields in 1840.
From 1842 Butterfield was involved with the Cambridge Camden Society, later The Ecclesiological Society. He contributed designs to the Society's journal, The Ecclesiologist. His involvement influenced his architectural style. He also drew religious inspiration from the Oxford Movement and as such, he was very high church despite his non-conformist upbringing. He was a Gothic revival architect, and as such he reinterpreted the original Gothic style in Victorian terms. Many of his buildings were for religious use, although he also designed for colleges and schools.

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William Webb Ellis
Rev. William Webb Ellis (24 November 1806 – 24 February 1872) was an Anglican clergyman who is famous for allegedly being the inventor of Rugby football whilst a pupil at Rugby School.
Web Ellis's name is firmly established in rugby union folklore and the William Webb Ellis Cup is presented to the winners of the Rugby World Cup.
Webb Ellis was born in Salford, Lancashire (some sources say he was born in Manchester as Webb Ellis himself said he was born there in the 1851 census as he later moved to the city). He was the younger of two sons of James Ellis, an officer in the Dragoon Guards, and Ann Webb, whom James married in Exeter in 1804. After his father was killed at the Battle of Albuera in 1811, Mrs Ellis decided to move to Rugby, Warwickshire so that William and his older brother Thomas could receive an education at Rugby School with no cost as a local foundationer (i.e. a pupil living within a radius of 10 miles of the Rugby Clock Tower). He attended the school from 1816 to 1825 and was recorded as being a good scholar and cricketer, although it was noted that he was 'rather inclined to take unfair advantage at cricket'. The incident in which Webb Ellis supposedly caught the ball in his arms during a football match (which was allowed) and ran with it (which was not) meant to have happened in the latter half of 1823.

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Rugby School
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Motto	Orando Laborando (Latin"By praying, by working")
Established	1567
Type	Independent day and boarding Public school
Religion	Church of England
Headmaster	Patrick S J Derham MA
Founder	Lawrence Sheriff
Location	Rugby Warwickshire England
DfE URN	125777
Students	831
Gender	Co-educational
Ages	11–18
Houses	16
Colours	Blue White Green
Former Pupils	Old Rugbeians
Website	www.rugbyschool.net

Coordinates: 52°22′03″N 1°15′40″W / 52.36750°N 1.26114°W / 52.36750; -1.26114

Rugby School is a co-educational day and boarding school located in the town of Rugby, Warwickshire, England. It is one of the oldest independent schools in Britain.^[1] The influence of Rugby and its pupils and masters in the nineteenth century was enormous and in many ways the stereotype of the English public school is a reworking of Thomas Arnold's Rugby. It is one of the best known schools in the country and seen as an innovator in education (e.g. see its part in developing the Cambridge Pre-U).

1 History
2 Today
3 Headmasters
- 3.1 Thomas Arnold
- 3.2 John Percival
4 William Webb Ellis
5 Houses
6 Information
7 Alumni
8 Rugbeian Society
9 Rugby Fives
10 School slang
11 School song
12 See also
13 References
14 External links

History [link]

Rugby School from The Close, the playing field where according to legend the game of rugby was invented

Early challenges [link]

Rugby School was founded in 1567 as a provision in the will of Lawrence Sheriff, who had made his fortune supplying groceries to Queen Elizabeth I of England.^[2] Since Lawrence Sheriff lived in Rugby and the neighbouring Brownsover, the school was intended to be a free grammar school for the boys of those towns. Up to 1667, the school remained in comparative obscurity. Its history during that trying period is characterized mainly by a series of lawsuits between descendants of the founder, who tried to defeat the intentions of the testator, and the masters and trustees, who tried to carry them out. A final decision was handed down in 1667, confirming the findings of a commission in favor of the trust, and henceforth the school maintained a steady growth.^[3]

Growth [link]

Gradually Rugby's fame spread it was no longer desirable to have only local boys attending and the nature of the school shifted, and so a new school – Lawrence Sheriff Grammar School – was founded in 1878 to continue Lawrence Sheriff's original intentions; that school receives a substantial proportion of the endowment income from Lawrence Sheriff's estate every year.

The core of the school (which contains School House, featured in Tom Brown's Schooldays) was completed in 1815 and is built around the Old Quad (quadrangle), with its fine and graceful Georgian architecture. Especially notable rooms are the Upper Bench (an intimate space with a book-lined gallery), the Old Hall of School House, and the Old Big School (which makes up one side of the quadrangle, and was once the location for teaching all junior pupils). Thomas Hughes (like his fictional hero, Tom Brown) once carved his name onto the hands of the school clock, situated on a tower above the Old Quad. The polychromatic school chapel, new quadrangle, Temple Reading Room, Macready Theatre and Gymnasium were designed by the well-known Victorian Gothic revival architect William Butterfield in 1875, and the smaller Memorial Chapel was dedicated in 1922.

Cartel [link]

In 2005, Rugby School was one of fifty of the country's leading independent schools which were found guilty of running an illegal price-fixing cartel which had allowed them to drive up fees for thousands of parents.^[4] Each school was required to pay a nominal penalty of £10,000 and all agreed to make ex-gratia payments totalling three million pounds into a trust designed to benefit pupils who attended the schools during the period in respect of which fee information was shared.^[5] However, Mrs Jean Scott, the head of the Independent Schools Council, said that independent schools had always been exempt from anti-cartel rules applied to business, were following a long-established procedure in sharing the information with each other, and that they were unaware of the change to the law (on which they had not been consulted). She wrote to John Vickers, the OFT director-general, saying, "They are not a group of businessmen meeting behind closed doors to fix the price of their products to the disadvantage of the consumer. They are schools that have quite openly continued to follow a long-established practice because they were unaware that the law had changed."^[6]

Today [link]

Rugby School continues to offer scholarship places for outstanding students from the local community, who come from state (maintained) primary schools in the immediate vicinity of Rugby.^[7] The school's new Arnold Foundation has been established to enable it to offer similar support to children from outside the Rugby area.

Thomas Arnold - 1828 to 1842
Archibald Campbell Tait - 1842 to 1848
Dr Edward Meyrick Goulburn - 1849 to 1857
Frederick Temple - 1858 to 1869
Henry Hayman DD - 1870 to 1874
Thomas William Jex-Blake, DD, 1874 to 1887
John Percival, DD, - 1887 to 1895
Herbert Armitage James, DD - 1895 to 1910 ^[8]
Albert Augustus David - 1910 to 1921^[8]
William Wyamar Vaughan - 1921 to 1931^[8]
Percy Hugh Beverley Lyon - 1931 to 1948^[8]
Sir Arthur Frederic Brownlow fforde - 1948 to 1957^[8]
Walter Hamilton - 1957 to 1966^[8]
James Woodhouse - 1967 to 1980
Brian Rees -1980 to 1985^[9]
Richard Bull - 1985 to 1990^[9]
Michael Mavor - 1990 to 2001^[9]
Patrick Derham - 2001 to present

Thomas Arnold [link]

Main article: Thomas Arnold

The school's most notable headmaster was Thomas Arnold. Appointed in 1828 he executed many reforms to the school curriculum and administration and was immortalised in Thomas Hughes' book Tom Brown's School Days. However, it is wrong to associate Arnold too closely with the image of him presented in that book. In his authoritative 'Godliness and Good Learning' (Cassell 1961), D.H. Newsome points out that muscular Christianity developed after Arnold's time at Rugby and that "although 'Tom Brown's School Days' is one of the earliest examples of the delight in athleticism, the ideal there expressed is not that of Arnold but of Thomas Hughes [the author]" (page 80).

John Percival [link]

Main article: John Percival (bishop)

In 1888 the appointment of Marie Bethell Beauclerc by Percival was the first appointment of a female teacher in an English boys' public school and the first time shorthand had been taught in any such school. The shorthand course was popular with one hundred boys in the classes.

William Webb Ellis [link]

Main article: William Webb Ellis

William Webb Ellis plaque

Webb-Ellis at Rugby, 1823

The game of Rugby owes its name to the school. The legend of William Webb Ellis and the origin of the game is commemorated by a plaque. The story has been known to be a myth since it was first investigated by the Old Rugbeian Society (renamed the Rugbeian Society) in 1895. There were no standard rules for football during Webb Ellis's time at Rugby (1816–1825) and most varieties involved carrying the ball. The games played at Rugby were organised by the pupils and not the masters, the rules of the game played at Rugby and elsewhere were a matter of custom and were not written down. They were frequently changed and modified with each new intake of students. The sole source of the story is credited to one Matthew Bloxam (a former pupil, but not a contemporary of Webb Ellis) in October 1876 (four years after the death of Webb Ellis) in a letter to the school newspaper (The Meteor) wherein he quotes some unknown friend relating the story to him. He elaborated on the story some three years later in another letter to The Meteor, but shed no further light on its source. Richard Lindon is credited for the invention of the "oval" rugby ball, the rubber inflatable bladder and the brass hand pump.^[10] Lindon, a Boot and Shoemaker, had premises immediately across the street from the School's main entrance in Lawrence Sheriff Street. No doubt the boys of Rugby School had significant input into their required design.

It is also fair to say that cross country running may have begun at Rugby School. The Big-Side Runs were one of the first such events of their type in public schools and were started in 1837. The Crick Run was started in 1838 and is still a major annual event in the School's calendar.

Houses [link]

Rugby School has both day and boarding-pupils, the latter in the majority. Originally it was for boys only, but girls have been admitted to the sixth form since 1975. It went fully co-educational in 1995.

The school community is divided into houses:

Boys:

Cotton House
Kilbracken
Michell House
School Field
School House
Sheriff House
Town House (Day House)
Whitelaw House

Girls:

Bradley House (ex boys' house)
Dean House
Griffin House
Rupert Brooke House
Southfield House (Day House)
Stanley House (ex boys' house: 6th form)
Tudor House (ex boys' house)

Junior School:

Marshall House (Day House. Pupils leave Marshall House at age 13 to join one of the other houses, usually Town for boys and Southfield for girls)

Information [link]

Rugby School from the side

Age range: 11 - 18
Day pupils: 77 boys, 64 girls
Annual day fees: £17,475 - £22,815; Juniors £10,299 (numerous scholarships and bursaries available)
Full boarding pupils: 369 boys, 296 girls
Annual full boarding fees: £28,050
Total pupils: 446 boys, 360 girls
Including 6th form/FE: 194 boys, 168 girls
Staff numbers: 100 full time - 9 part time
Method of entry: Common Entrance, Interview, Scholarship or bursary exam
Professional affiliations: HMC
Religious affiliation: Church of England^[11]

Alumni [link]

Main article: List of Old Rugbeians

There have been a number of notable Old Rugbeians including the purported father of the sport of Rugby William Webb Ellis, the inventor of Australian rules football Tom Wills, the war poets Rupert Brooke and John Gillespie Magee, Jr., Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, author and mathematician Lewis Carroll, poet and cultural critic Matthew Arnold, the author and social critic Salman Rushdie (who said of his time there: "Almost the only thing I am proud of about going to Rugby school was that Lewis Carroll went there too."^[12]) and the Irish writer and republican Francis Stuart. Matthew Arnold's father Thomas Arnold, was a headmaster of the school. An OR seven-a-side rugby team was invited to compete in the inaugural Old Boys Sevens tournament in June 2010, hosted by the Old Silhillians, the former pupils' association of Solihull School.

Rugbeian Society [link]

The Rugbeian Society is for former pupils at the School.^[13] An Old Rugbeian is sometimes referred to as an OR.

The purposes of the society are to encourage and help Rugbeians in interacting with each other and to strengthen the ties between ORs and the school.

in 2010 the Rugbeians reached the Semi Finals of the Public Schools' Old Boys' Sevens tournament, hosted by the Old Silhillians to celebrate the 450th anniversary of fellow Warwickshire public school, Solihull School.

Rugby Fives [link]

Rugby Fives

Rugby Fives is a handball game, similar to squash, played in an enclosed court. It has similarities with Winchester Fives (a form of Wessex Fives) and Eton Fives.

It is most commonly believed to be derived from Wessex Fives, a game played by Thomas Arnold, Headmaster of Rugby, who had played Wessex Fives when a boy at Lord Weymouth's Grammer, now Warminster School. The open court of Wessex Fives, built in 1787, is still in existence at Warminster School although it has fallen out of regular use.

Rugby Fives is played between two players (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles), the aim being to hit the ball above a 'bar' across the front wall in such a way that the opposition cannot return it before a second bounce. The ball is slightly larger than a golf ball, leather-coated and hard. Players wear leather padded gloves on both hands, with which they hit the ball.

Rugby Fives continues to have a good following with tournaments being run nationwide, presided over by the Rugby Fives Association.^[14]

School slang [link]

In common with most English public schools, Rugby has its own argot, a few words of which are listed below. Also, the Oxford "-er" abbreviation (e.g. Johnners, rugger, footer etc.), prevalent at Oxford University from about 1875, is thought to have been borrowed from the slang of Rugby School.^[15] However, much of the slang below is now obsolete as marked.

Bags: Sporting colours (particularly 'The Holder of Bigside Bags', the Captain of the Running Eight)
Beaks: Teachers (obsolete: current pre-1970)
Bodger: The current headmaster (After Dr. H. A. James - former headmaster (1895–1909). He gained this nickname while headmaster at Rossall School.) (obsolete - current in 1970s and earlier)
Boomer: Chapel Bell (not actually functional, on the premise the tower may collapse)
Bosh: A traditional game of soccer between School House and School Field on the Close annually
Bug: Library (obsolete: current pre-1970). The main library is the Temple Reading Room (TRR)
Close: Rugby and cricket pitches outside School House. Also serves as a form of punishment in School House, where the offender walks around the Close early in the morning.
Cock House: winner of the inter house rugby competition
Copy: Award for exceptional work
Credit: Award that is just below a distinction
Crick Run: annual long distance run from Crick to Rugby
Defaulter : half an hour of manual labour, that could be imposed as a punishment by a sixth
Dics: House prayers or talks on useful information (obsolete - current in 1960s and earlier)
Distinction: Award for slightly less exceptional work than a Copy
D-Block: Year 11
E-Block: Year 10
F-Block: Year 9
Far Polo: the most distant rugby pitches, only occasionally used, located on farmland more usually used for grazing sheep.
Gation: Second to worst form of punishment in the form of boarding house arrest with staff or Levee signatures required on the hour.
Ground Work: 2 hours of manual labour, imposed as a punishment
G-Block: Years 7 and 8
Imposition: Lowest form of punishment
Job: 1 hour of manual labour, imposed as a punishment
Lacque (pronounced 'Lake'): Room for the sixth in Sheriff House
Levee: School prefect
LXX: (Known as Lower Twenty) Year 12
Hall: The table below that of the Sixth. Members of Hall have or had certain privileges, such as that of carrying an umbrella, or making toast (obsolete: current pre-1970 )
The Marshall: A figure who makes sure everything is as it should be
New Turf and Old Turf: Hockey Astro Pitches
New Quad and Old Quad: The two areas around OBS
Old Guard: Sports team of teachers
OBS: Old Big School
OR: Old Rugbeian
Pig Hut run: Physical punishment of running to Levee hut (obsolete)
Pontines: 2nd XV rugby pitch
The Porridge: The gravel area outside the Chapel
Rustication: Highest form of punishment before expulsion. Sent home or occasionally sent to live with Chaplain.
Sixth: House prefect
Speckle: To sack someone from being a House Sixth (the Sixth tie is speckled)
Stewboi: A hindrance - 'To lay a Stewboi' being the correct term for hindering a pupil - or a fashion of hat worn
Stodge: School tuck shop
Stripe: To sack someone from being a Levee (the Levee tie is striped)
Tanner: Day-boy (from 'Town House') (obsolete)
Tick: The obligatory salutation of a Beak in the street, by lifting an index finger to shoulder level (obsolete - current in 1960s and earlier)
Topos: Lavatory (from Greek τόπος, meaning 'a place') (obsolete - current in 1980s and earlier)
Tosh: The old 66²⁄₃ yard open-air swimming pool, also used as a skating rink in winter, demolished by the School Governors in 1989 and replaced with a basket-ball court and a smaller indoor swimming pool. In some houses a name given to a large communal shower room. Also, a bath (sb.) or to take a bath
Wagger: Waste paper basket (abbreviation of "wagger pagger bagger" - see Oxford "-er") (obsolete - current in 1960s and earlier)
XX: Year 13

School song [link]

"Floreat Rugbeia" is the traditional school song. While a boy's house, Tudor house had an alternate first verse of the Floreat which for more than two centuries by tradition they would sing by heart at Chapel contrary to all other houses of the school which would sing the official first verse of the Floreat.^{[citation needed]} Members of Tudor House would then continue to sing the correct second and third verse of the Floreat which Older boys ensured that younger boys knew by heart, often staging impromptu tests at all hours of the day or night, with language students occasionally being required to translate from the latin to their specialist language. This amongst other Tudor house traditions has now fallen by the wayside No other house memorised either versions of the Floreat. The girls now residing in Tudor house have not continued the boys' original tradition, other than on reunion days for the Old Rugbeians.

References [link]

^ List of Schools on Emetis.com
^ Rugby by Henry Christopher Bradby
^ "Rugby School". New International Encyclopedia. 1905.
^ Independent schools face huge fines over cartel to fix fees
^ Article at UK Office of Fair Trade
^ "Private schools send papers to fee-fixing inquiry". The Daily Telegraph (London). 1 March 2004. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1455730/Private-schools-send-papers-to-fee-fixing-inquiry.html. Retrieved 15 March 2011.
^ "Scholarships" Rugby School web site
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f John Barclay Hope Simpson, Rugby Since Arnold: A History of Rugby School from 1842, Published by Macmillan, 1967
^ ^a ^b ^c Rugby School - History and Traditions
^ Richard Lindon web site
^ Good Schools Guide
^ Salman Rushdie: The Arab spring is a demand for desires and rights that are common to all human beings, Telegraph
^ Rugbeians On-line
^ Ruby Fives Association
^ "A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English., Partridge, Eric, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London 1984. p. 1390

External links [link]

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Sixth Form Colleges	King Edward VI College, Nuneaton Trinity Catholic School

Further Education Colleges	Stratford-upon-Avon College Warwickshire College North Warwickshire and Hinckley College

Grammar	Alcester Grammar School King Edward VI School Lawrence Sheriff School Rugby High School for Girls Stratford-upon-Avon Grammar School for Girls

Partially selective	Ashlawn School

Independent	Arnold Lodge School Bilton Grange The King's High School For Girls Kingsley School Princethorpe College Rugby School Warwick School

Special	Exhall Grange School River House School RNIB Pears Centre for Specialist Learning

Former	Bishop Wulstan School Dunchurch-Winton Hall

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Scott Quinnell

Personal information

Full name

Leon Scott Quinnell

Date of birth

August 20, 1972 (age 39)

Place of birth

Morriston, Swansea, Wales

Height

1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)

Weight

118 kg (18 st 8 lb)

School(s) attended

Graig Comprehensive School

Relatives

Derek Quinnell (father)
Craig Quinnell (brother)
Gavin Quinnell (brother)
Barry John (uncle)^[1]

Club information

Position(s)

Prop, Second-row / No. 8

Current club

Retired

Youth clubs

Years	Club
	3

Senior clubs*

Years	Club	Apps (points)
1990 ‐ 94 1994 ‐ 96 1996 ‐ 98 1998 ‐ 05	Llanelli RFC Wigan Richmond Llanelli Scarlets	146 (160) 39 (64) 59 (60)

Representative teams

1993 ‐ 02
1993 ‐ 01

Wales RU
British and Irish Lions
Great Britain
Wales RL

52 (55)
3 (5)

* Professional club appearances and points
counted for domestic first grade only.

Scott Quinnell (born 20 August 1972 in Morriston, Swansea) is a former Welsh international rugby league and rugby union player, who was a number 8 for Wales, Llanelli RFC, the Llanelli Scarlets and the Lions. He scored 11 tries for Wales and captained his country on 7 occasions in rugby union.

1 Biography
2 References
3 External links

Biography [link]

Scott is the son of former Welsh international Derek Quinnell. His next younger brother Craig Quinnell plays professional rugby union, as did another brother, Gavin Quinnell, before losing the sight in one eye after an incident in a 2010 rugby match. The brothers are also nephews of legendary Welsh international Barry John.^[1]

Early career [link]

Quinnell first joined the Llanelli juniors aged 8 and made his debut as an 18-year-old back in 1990 against Penygroes. He went on to represent Llanelli on 146 occasions, scoring 69 tries in the process.

Quinnell first played for Wales as a blindside flanker in a 26-24 defeat against Canada in 1993. He was part of the 1994 Five nations winning Welsh team and was man of the match as Number 8 in Wales' 24-15 victory over France that year with a try and a breakaway to set up another try.

Rugby league [link]

He switched to rugby league in 1994, joining Wigan.^[2] He stayed with Wigan for two years during this time he won the league and the Regal Trophy. He also represented Wales in the 1995 Rugby League World Cup, he says that the toughest game of rugby he ever played was the quarter final against Western Samoa.^[3] Wales went out to England 25-10 in the semi-finals.

Return to Union [link]

He returned to rugby union with Richmond in 1996. He was selected for the 1997 Lions tour of South Africa but a double hernia operation forced him to leave the tour.

He came back to his beloved Stradey Park in 1998. During the 1998-99 season he did no conditioning work at all as he had rheumatoid arthritis in his left knee. For seven years he played through the pain barrier with the condition that seemed likely to end his career.

He was part of a Welsh team that won eight straight games before the 1999 World Cup and then reached the World Cup quarter-finals where they went out 24-9 to the eventual winners Australia. He captained Wales for the first time in a 23-13 defeat by South Africa at the Millennium Stadium. Quinnell played his final game for Wales as a replacement in a 32-21 win over Canada in 2002 after winning 52 caps.

He was again selected for the 2001 Lions tour to Australia where he played in all three tests, and scored a crucial try in the first test in Brisbane.

Since the Welsh domestic game went regional in 2003, he has appeared 59 times for the Scarlets, scoring 32 tries. He was part of the Llanelli Scarlets team that won the Celtic League title in 2004.

Quinnell announced his retirement from rugby union at the end of the 2004/2005 season in order to concentrate on his role as coach of the Llanelli RFC Welsh Premier Division team. A hand injury suffered in March 2005 forced him to end his career a few weeks prematurely. He played his final game in a testimonial match with fellow retiree Rob Howley at Millennium Stadium. Quinnell's Britain & Ireland selection lost 57-67 to Howley's Rest of the World side.

After retirement [link]

Quinnell currently regularly appears as a commentator and pundit on a number of Sky Sports televised rugby matches. Scott is also a People's Postcode Lottery ambassador and appears on the adverts.

Personal life [link]

Quinnell is married to Nicola, and the couple have three children. Having lived all of his life in Llanelli, in early 2009 in light of his increased media commitments, the family moved to Kenilworth, Warwickshire, although they have since moved back to South Wales to a smallholding near Usk.^[4]

Quinnell was born dyslexic, but was not diagnosed until his early 30's, when his lack of ability to read and write was correctly diagnosed. Having undertaken a series of therapies to resolve the condition, Quinnell is now a popular speaker on the matter. He has represented the Welsh Dyslexia Project, and also completed an autobiography^[5] as part of the Accent Press Quick Reads series.

In August 2007 Quinnell was treated for serious injuries after slipping whilst entering a shower and falling through a glass shower door at his then home near Llanelli. He was taken to West Wales General Hospital in Carmarthen with a severed right triceps and glass embedded in his right arm, hand and knee.^[6] Scott's Godfather is Welsh Rugby Legend Mervyn Davies.

References [link]

^ ^a ^b "Quinnell family's shock over sight loss ruling". BBC Sport. 4 April 2011. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/rugby_union/welsh/12964924.stm. Retrieved 6 April 2011.
^ "Gareth Thomas completes switch from union to Wales rugby league side Crusaders". telegraph.co.uk (UK: Telegraph Media Group Limited). 2010-03-05. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/rugbyunion/international/wales/7376424/Gareth-Thomas-completes-switch-from-union-to-Wales-rugby-league-side-Crusaders.html. Retrieved 2010-05-02.
^ "Quinnell gives Millennium Magic the thumbs up". SuperLeague. 2008-04-15. http://2008.superleague.co.uk/article.php?id=10246. Retrieved 2008-04-17. ^{[dead link]}
^ "Scott Quinnell heads east". walesonline.co.uk. 2009-05-15. http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2009/05/17/scott-quinnell-heads-east-91466-23640620/. Retrieved 2009-05-15.
^ Quinnell, Scott – The Hardest Test, published by Accent Press, 2008, ISBN 978-1-906125-95-0
^ Quinnell hurt in shower accident

External links [link]

Wales profile
Scott Quinnell Wigan Career Page on the Wigan RL Fansite.

v t e Wales squad – 1995 Rugby League World Cup

Davies (c) Atcheson Bateman Busby Cowie Cunningham Devereux Ellis Eyres Ford Gibbs Griffiths Hadley Hall Harris Jones Moriarty Perrett Phillips Quinnell Skerrett Stephens Sullivan Webster Young Coach: Griffiths

v t e Wales squad – 1999 Rugby World Cup

Forwards	Charvis Evans Humphreys Jenkins A. Lewis G. Lewis G. Llewellyn Moore C. Quinnell S. Quinnell Rogers Sinkinson Voyle Williams Wyatt Young

Backs	Bateman Davies Gibbs Howarth Howley James Jenkins Jones Jones-Hughes D. Llewellyn Morgan Taylor Thomas Walne

Coach	Henry

v t e British and Irish Lions – 1997 South Africa tour

Forwards	Back Dallaglio Davidson Hill Johnson(c) Leonard Miller Quinnell Regan Rodber Rowntree Shaw Smith Wainwright Wallace Weir Williams Wood Young Redman (injury replacement)

Backs	Bateman Beal Bentley Dawson Evans Healey Howley Jenkins Gibbs Greenwood Guscott Grayson Stimpson Tait Townsend T. Underwood Catt (injury replacement)

Coach	McGeechan & Telfer

v t e British and Irish Lions – 2001 Australia tour

Forwards	Back Bulloch Charvis Corry Dallaglio Davidson Greening Grewcock Hill Johnson (c) Leonard McBryde Morris Murray O'Kelly Quinnell Smith Taylor Wallace West Williams Wood Vickery Young

Backs	Balshaw Catt Cohen Dawson Gibbs Greenwood Healey Henderson Howe Howley James Jenkins Luger Nicol O'Driscoll O'Gara Perry Robinson Taylor Wilkinson

Coach	Henry

Persondata
Name	Quinnell, Scott
Alternative names
Short description	Welsh rugby union player
Date of birth	1972-08-20
Place of birth	Morriston, Swansea, Wales
Date of death
Place of death

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Will Greenwood
Rugby union career
Full name	William John Heaton Greenwood
Date of birth	(1972-10-20) 20 October 1972 (age 39)
Place of birth	Blackburn, Lancashire, England
Height	6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Weight	15 st 10 lb (100 kg)
Playing career
Position	Centre
Amateur clubs
Years	Club / team
1988-1990 1990- 1994	Preston Grasshoppers Waterloo R.F.C.
correct as of 1988-1990 1990- 1994.
Professional / senior clubs
Years	Club / team	Caps	(points)
1994-1996 1996-2000 2000-2006	Harlequins Leicester Tigers Harlequins	25 151	(70) (307)
correct as of 14 Sept 2006.
National team(s)
Years	Club / team	Caps	(points)
1997-2004 1997-2001-2005	England British and Irish Lions	55 2	(155) (0)
correct as of 14 Sept 2006.

William John Heaton "Will" Greenwood, MBE (born 20 October 1972 in Blackburn, Lancashire) is an English former rugby union player of the 1990s and 2000s. He played in the centres, mainly at inside-centre, although he was able to play at outside-centre.

1 Early life
2 Career
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

Early life [link]

Greenwood was educated at Sedbergh School where he was in the first team for Rugby and Cricket. He graduated with a BA in Economics from Hatfield College, Durham in 1994.

Career [link]

He played his club rugby for the Harlequins, having also played for Preston Grasshoppers, Waterloo and Leicester Tigers.

His father Dick Greenwood played at flanker for and later coached the England Rugby Union team. He left Harlequins and moved to Leicester Tigers in 1996 because the presence of England centre Will Carling meant he could not get first team rugby.

He was overlooked by the England coach Jack Rowell, but was selected for the 1997 British Lions tour to South Africa still uncapped, and ahead of then England captain Phil de Glanville. During the tour, he swallowed his tongue on the pitch after a collision and stopped breathing for several minutes, and did not play in any of the tests. This was one of the few games where Greenwood, contrary to his superstition, wore a number 12 jersey. He also toured with the Lions in 2001 but injury again prevented him from playing.

Subsequently picked by new England coach and ex-Tigers centre Clive Woodward he became an important part of that team, notably establishing a centre partnership with Jeremy Guscott. In 2000 he moved back from Tigers to 'Quins after succumbing to poor form, not helped by the arrival of Australian Pat Howard that prevented him from getting first team rugby. His match-winning try to defeat Brive, in the European Shield quarterfinal (27 January 2001), was voted the club's 2000/01 'Try of the Year'. He had already picked up an RFU Cup winner's medal with Tigers but this time tasted defeat in the final of the same competition with NEC Harlequins, at the hands of Newcastle Falcons in 2001.

He rebounded and was involved in all but one of England's games in the 2003 Rugby World Cup, scoring England's only try against South Africa, when he followed up to touch down after a Lewis Moody charge down. His try against Wales in the quarter-final in Brisbane turned the match for England in a tight game. He finished the tournament as joint top try scorer with five.

He was made vice captain under Lawrence Dallaglio for the 2004 Six Nations tournament. He reached the 50 cap landmark against Ireland and played in all of England's Six Nations matches. At the start of the 2004/5 season he stood on 30 tries. He won the last of 55 England caps against Australia in 2004.

In 2005 Greenwood was injured for the Six Nations, but was selected for the British and Irish Lions tour to New Zealand, his third Lions tour. He replaced Brian O'Driscoll just two minutes into the first test against New Zealand and also played in the third test.

In 2006, after 55 England English rugby union caps and 31 tries he announced his retirement at the end of the 2005/6 season^[1] and he currently works as an analyst for Sky Sports and regularly appears on 'The Rugby Club' and live premiership matches. During the 2007 Rugby World Cup, Greenwood was employed by ITV as an analyst for live matches.

References [link]

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^ "World cup star Greenwood to quit". BBC Sport. 4 March 2006. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/4773442.stm. Retrieved 3 March 2010.

v t e British and Irish Lions – 1997 South Africa tour

Forwards	Back Dallaglio Davidson Hill Johnson(c) Leonard Miller Quinnell Regan Rodber Rowntree Shaw Smith Wainwright Wallace Weir Williams Wood Young Redman (injury replacement)

Backs	Bateman Beal Bentley Dawson Evans Healey Howley Jenkins Gibbs Greenwood Guscott Grayson Stimpson Tait Townsend T. Underwood Catt (injury replacement)

Coach	McGeechan & Telfer

v t e England squad – 1999 Rugby World Cup

Forwards	Archer Back Cockerill Corry Dallaglio Garforth Greening Hill Johnson (c) Leonard McCarthy Grewcock Rodber Rowntree Ubogu Vickery Worsley

Backs	Beal Bracken Catt Dawson De Glanville Grayson Greenwood Guscott Healey Luger Perry Rees Wilkinson

Coach	Woodward

v t e British and Irish Lions – 2001 Australia tour

Forwards	Back Bulloch Charvis Corry Dallaglio Davidson Greening Grewcock Hill Johnson (c) Leonard McBryde Morris Murray O'Kelly Quinnell Smith Taylor Wallace West Williams Wood Vickery Young

Backs	Balshaw Catt Cohen Dawson Gibbs Greenwood Healey Henderson Howe Howley James Jenkins Luger Nicol O'Driscoll O'Gara Perry Robinson Taylor Wilkinson

Coach	Henry

v t e England squad – 2003 Rugby World Cup Winners (1st Title)

Forwards	Back Corry Dallaglio Hill Grewcock Johnson (c) Kay Leonard Regan Moody Thompson Vickery West White Worsley Woodman Shaw (injury replacement)

Backs	Abbott Balshaw Bracken Catt Cohen Dawson Grayson Gomarsall Greenwood Lewsey Luger Robinson Tindall Wilkinson

Coach	Woodward

v t e British and Irish Lions – 2005 New Zealand tour

Forwards	Back Bulloch Byrne Cockbain Corry Dallaglio Easterby Grewcock Hayes Hill Jenkins Jones, R. Kay Moody O'Callaghan O'Connell O'Kelly Owen Rowntree Shaw Sheridan Stevens Taylor Thompson Titterrell White, Jason White, Julian Williams, M.

Backs	Cooper Cueto Cusiter D'Arcy Dawson Greenwood Henson Hickie Hodgson Jones, S. Horgan Lewsey Murphy O'Driscoll (c) O'Gara Peel Robinson Shanklin Smith Thomas Wilkinson Williams, S.

Coach	Woodward

v t e Barbarian team captains - International Fixtures

To 1999	Apr 1915: Edgar Mobbs(vs.Wal) • Jan 1948: Haydn Tanner(vs.Aus) • Jan 1952: Jimmy Nelson(vs.SA) • Feb 1954: Rex Willis(vs.NZ) • Feb 1958: Cliff Morgan(vs.Aus) • May 1958: Jim Greenwood(vs.East Africa) • Feb 1961: Ronnie Dawson(vs.SA) • Nov 1962: Ron Jacobs(vs.Can) • Feb 1964: Ronnie Dawson(vs.NZ) • Jan 1967: Noel Murphy(vs.Aus) • Dec 1967: Stewart Wilson(vs.NZ) • May 1969: John O'Shea(vs.Rhodesia) • Jan 1970: Gareth Edwards(vs.SA) • May 1970: John Spencer(vs.Sco XV) • Oct 1970: Frank Laidlaw(vs.Fiji) • Jan 1973: John Dawes(vs.NZ) • Nov 1974: Willie John McBride(vs.NZ) • Jan 1976: Mervyn Davies(vs.Aus) • Jun 1976: Phil Bennett(vs.Can) • Sep 1977: Gerald Davies(vs.Lions) • Dec 1978: Derek Quinnell(vs.NZ) • Jan 1982: Bill Beaumont(vs.Aus)cancelled • Mar 1983: Fergus Slattery(vs.Sco XV) • Dec 1984: Gareth Davies(vs.Aus) • May 1985: Colin Deans(vs.Ita) • Nov 1988: Philip Matthews(vs.Aus) • Nov 1989: David Sole(vs.NZ) • Sep 1990: Nick Farr-Jones(vs.Eng) • Oct 1990: Nick Farr-Jones(vs.Wales) • Nov 1990: [[]](vs.Arg) • Sep 1991: [[]](vs.Sco) • Jun 1992: [[]](vs.Rus) • Nov 1992: [[]](vs.Aus) • Dec 1993: Scott Hastings(vs.NZ) • Jun 1994: [[]](vs.Zim) • Dec 1994: Robert Jones(vs.SA) • 1996: [[]](vs.Ire) • Aug 1996: [[]](vs.Sco) • Aug 1996: Arran Pene(vs.Wal) • Dec 1996: [[]](vs.Aus) •

From 2000	May 2000: Ian Jones(vs.Ire) • May 2000: Zinzan Brooke(vs.Sco) • Aug 2000: [[]](vs.Ger) • Dec 2000: Lawrence Dallaglio(vs.SA) • May 2001: [[]](vs.Wal) • May 2001: Tim Horan(vs.Sco) • May 2001: Gary Teichmann(vs.Eng) • Nov 2001: Rob Howley(vs.Aus) • May 2002: Todd Blackadder(vs.Eng) • May 2002: Pat Lam(vs.Wal) • Jun 2002: Ian Jones(vs.Sco) • May 2003: Taine Randell (vs.Eng) • May 2003: Mick Galwey (vs.Sco) • May 2003: Mark Connors (vs.Wal) • May 2004: Taine Randell (vs.Sco) • May 2004: Matt Burke (vs.Wal) • May 2004: Anton Oliver (vs.Eng) • Jun 2004: Rob Baxter (vs.Por) • Dec 2004: Justin Marshall (vs.NZ) • May 2005: David Humphreys (vs.Sco) • May 2005: Corné Krige (vs.Eng) • May 2006: Raphaël Ibañez (vs.Eng) • May 2006: Will Greenwood (vs.Sco) • Jun 2006: Bobby Skinstad (vs.Geo) • May 2007: Hugh Vyvyan (vs.Tun) • Jun 2007: Hugh Vyvyan (vs.Esp) • Dec 2007: Mark Regan (vs.SA) • May 2008: [[]] (vs.Bel) • May 2008: Morgan Turinui (vs.Ire) • Jun 2008: Mark Regan (vs.Eng) • Dec 2008: John Smit (vs.Aus) • May 2009: Martin Corry (vs.Eng) • Jun 2009: Phil Waugh (vs.Aus) • Dec 2009: Victor Matfield (vs.NZ) • May 2010: Xavier Rush (vs.Eng) • Jun 2010: Xavier Rush (vs.Ire) • Dec 2010: Matt Giteau (vs.SA) • May 2011: Sergio Parisse (vs. Eng) • Jun 2011: Sergio Parisse (vs. Wal) • Nov 2011: Victor Matfield (vs. Aus)

Persondata
Name	Greenwood, Will
Alternative names
Short description	English rugby union player
Date of birth	20 October 1972
Place of birth	Blackburn, Lancashire, England
Date of death
Place of death

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