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Christ's Hospital, known colloquially as the Bluecoat School, is an English co-educational independent day and boarding school located in Southwater, south of Horsham in West Sussex. [1]

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Adrian Bawtree

Adrian Bawtree (born 1968) is a composer and organist.

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Astronomer Royal

Astronomer Royal is a senior post in the Royal Households of the United Kingdom.

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Bands (neckwear)

Bands are a form of formal neckwear, worn by some clergy and lawyers, and with some forms of academic dress.

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Bluecoat school

A Bluecoat school is a type of charity school, the first of which was founded in the 16th century.

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Bruce Grindlay

Bruce Grindlay (born 1967) is a British organist, conductor, teacher and the Current Headmaster at Sutton Valence School.

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Charitable organization

A charitable organization or charity is a non-profit organization (NPO) whose primary objectives are philanthropy and social well-being (e.g. charitable, educational, religious, or other activities serving the public interest or common good).

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Charity Commission for England and Wales

The Charity Commission for England and Wales is the non-ministerial government department that regulates registered charities in England and Wales and maintains the Central Register of Charities.

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Charity school

A charity school, sometimes called a blue coat school, was significant in the history of education in England.

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Charles Lamb

Charles Lamb (10 February 1775 – 27 December 1834) was an English essayist, poet, and antiquarian, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare, co-authored with his sister, Mary Lamb (1764–1847).

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Christ's Hospital Band

Christ's Hospital School Band is the marching band of Christ's Hospital School.

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Christ's Hospital railway station

Christ's Hospital railway station is near Horsham in West Sussex, England.

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Church of England

The Church of England (C of E) is the state church of England.

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Craig Sellar Lang

Craig Sellar Lang (13 May 1891 – 24 Nov 1971) was a New Zealand-born British organist, composer and music teacher.

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Derrick Somerset Macnutt

Derrick Somerset Macnutt (1902–1971) was a British crossword compiler who provided crosswords for The Observer newspaper under the pseudonym Ximenes.

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Edward Baldwin, 4th Earl Baldwin of Bewdley

Edward Alfred Alexander Baldwin, 4th Earl Baldwin of Bewdley (born 3 January 1938) is a British educator, hereditary peer and former Crossbench member of the House of Lords.

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Edward Buck (rower)

Edward Buck (born 1859) was an English schoolmaster and rower who won several events at Henley Royal Regatta.

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Edward Thornton, 1st Count of Cacilhas

Sir Edward Thornton, FRS (22 October 1766 – 3 July 1852) was a British diplomat, and father of Sir Edward Thornton (1817–1906).

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Edward VI of England

Edward VI (12 October 1537 – 6 July 1553) was King of England and Ireland from 28 January 1547 until his death.

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Elizabeth II

Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; born 21 April 1926) is Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms.

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Erasmus Smith

Erasmus Smith (1611 – 1691) was an English merchant and a landowner with possessions in England and Ireland.

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Franciscans

The Franciscans are a group of related mendicant religious orders within the Catholic Church, founded in 1209 by Saint Francis of Assisi.

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Gene Simmons

Gene Klein, born Chaim Witz (חיים ויץ,, born August 25, 1949), known professionally as Gene Simmons, is an Israeli-American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, entrepreneur, actor, author and television personality.

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George Andrew Jacob

The Reverend George Andrew Jacob DD (16 December 1807 – 7 May 1896) was an English clergyman and schoolmaster and author of many books about education and Christianity.

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George Peele

George Peele (baptised 25 July 1556 – buried 9 November 1596) was an English translator, poet, and dramatist, who is most noted for his supposed but not universally accepted collaboration with William Shakespeare on the play Titus Andronicus.

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Gerald Davies

Thomas Gerald Reames Davies CBE DL (born 7 February 1945 in Llansaint) is a Welsh former rugby union wing who played international rugby for Wales between 1966 and 1978.

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Henry James Sumner Maine

Sir Henry James Sumner Maine, (15 August 1822 – 3 February 1888), was a British comparative jurist and historian.

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Hertford

Hertford is the county town of Hertfordshire, England, and is also a civil parish in the East Hertfordshire district of the county.

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Horsham

Horsham is a market town on the upper reaches of the River Arun on the fringe of the Weald in West Sussex, England.

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House system

The house system is a traditional feature of schools in England, originating in England.

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Independent school (United Kingdom)

In the United Kingdom, independent schools (also private schools) are fee-paying private schools, governed by an elected board of governors and independent of many of the regulations and conditions that apply to state-funded schools.

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Independent Schools Inspectorate

The Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI) is an organisation responsible for the inspection of independent schools in England which are members of organisations affiliated to the Independent Schools Council (ISC).

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James D'Arcy

James D'Arcy (born Simon Richard D'Arcy; 24 August 1975) is a British actor.

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Jason Flemyng

Jason Iain FlemyngBirths, Marriages & Deaths Index of England & Wales, 1916–2005.; at ancestry.com (born 25 September 1966) is an English actor.

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John Flamsteed

John Flamsteed FRS (19 August 1646 – 31 December 1719) was an English astronomer and the first Astronomer Royal.

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Kiss (band)

Kiss (often stylized as KISS) is an American rock band formed in New York City in January 1973 by Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Peter Criss, and Ace Frehley.

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Leigh Hunt

James Henry Leigh Hunt (19 October 178428 August 1859), best known as Leigh Hunt, was an English critic, essayist and poet.

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Leo Gregory

Leo Gregory (born 22 November 1978) is an English film television actor.

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List of people educated at Christ's Hospital

This is a list of alumni of Christ's Hospital school, who are known as Old Blues.

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List of Victoria Crosses by school

The Victoria Cross has been awarded 1,358 times to persons of any rank in any service and to civilians under military command.

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Michael Wilding (actor)

Michael Charles Gauntlet Wilding (23 July 1912 – 8 July 1979) was an English stage, television, and film actor.

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Model United Nations

Model United Nations, also known as Model UN or MUN, is an educational simulation and/or academic activity in which students can learn about diplomacy, international relations, and the United Nations.

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Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester

Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester, (Richard Alexander Walter George; born 26 August 1944) is the youngest grandchild of King George V and Queen Mary.

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Priory

A priory is a monastery of men or women under religious vows that is headed by a prior or prioress.

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R. H. C. Davis

Ralph Henry Carless Davis (7 October 1918 in Oxford – 12 March 1991 in Oxford), always known publicly as R. H. C. Davis, was a British historian and educator specialising in the European Middle Ages.

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Rock School

Rock School (also known as Gene Simmons' Rock School) was a British reality television series starring Gene Simmons from the rock band Kiss, in which he had a short time to turn a class of school children into a fully fledged rock band, at the end of which they must perform in a supporting slot for a leading rock band.

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Roger Allam

Roger William Allam (born 26 October 1953) is an English actor, known primarily for his stage career, although he has performed in film, television and radio.

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Samuel Cobb (poet)

Samuel Cobb (baptized 1675 - 1713) was an English poet, critic and school master who was known for a light hearted, ironic pose in his verse and a witty, good natured personal life.

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (21 October 177225 July 1834) was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher and theologian who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets.

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School uniform

A school uniform is a uniform worn by students primarily for a school or otherwise educational institution.

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Southwater

Southwater is a large village and civil parish in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England, with a population of roughly 10,000.

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Steve Gatting

Stephen Paul Gatting (born 29 May 1959) is an English former footballer, who is best known for playing for Brighton & Hove Albion in the 1983 FA Cup Final.

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Thomas Barnes (journalist)

Thomas Barnes (11 September 1785 – 7 May 1841) was an English journalist, essayist, and editor.

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Thomas Middleton (bishop)

Thomas Fanshawe Middleton (28 January 1769 – 8 July 1822) was a noted Anglican bishop.

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West Sussex

West Sussex is a county in the south of England, bordering East Sussex (with Brighton and Hove) to the east, Hampshire to the west and Surrey to the north, and to the south the English Channel.

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William Hamilton Fyfe

Sir William Hamilton Fyfe (9 July 1878 – 13 June 1965) was an English and Canadian classics scholar, educator, and educational administrator.

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William Wales (astronomer)

William Wales (1734? – 29 December 1798) was a British mathematician and astronomer who sailed with Captain Cook on two voyages of discovery, then became Master of the Royal Mathematical School at Christ's Hospital and a Fellow of the Royal Society.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ's_Hospital

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