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dated 18 October 1550 a grammar school was established. The former hospital thus became the school's first home, but in 1578 it was demolished and a new building was erected which provided a schoolroom, a house for the
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The Quest at
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Category:People educated at
Marlborough Royal Free Grammar School
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a year, while the rest were boarders paying between 45 and 50
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475:(1801–1880), clergyman and inventor of the dry earth closet
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The
Educational Calendar and Scholastic Year-book for 1871
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The
Wiltshire archaeological and natural history magazine
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List of English and Welsh endowed schools (19th century)
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at digitalseance.wordpress.com, accessed 5 April 2013
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William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies
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503:A History of Marlborough grammar school 1550-1945
29:Grammar school in Marlborough, Wiltshire, England
1459:Educational institutions disestablished in 1975
830:at insidewiltshire.co.uk, accessed 7 April 2013
715:Camilla officially opens St John's, Marlborough
358:Michael Stevens , Acting Headmaster, 1963-1964
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408:(1814–1878), clergyman, poet, and hymn writer
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1095:St Joseph's RC School
1085:St John's Marlborough
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1198:Preparatory
1191:Independent
1130:UTC Swindon
921:(including
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473:Henry Moule
382:Robin Baker
323:Headmasters
204:Marlborough
142:Established
119:Information
106: /
81:Coordinates
63:Marlborough
1423:Categories
700:1 November
522:References
426:novelist,
387:Sperm Wars
270:Earl Bruce
948:Secondary
569:Education
448:Time Team
372:See also
243:the Crown
239:chantries
208:Wiltshire
69:Wiltshire
1368:Hawtreys
772:Archived
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263:boarders
198:, was a
52:Location
1270:Special
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1149:Grammar
932:Primary
923:Swindon
717:, from
537:, p. 87
491:general
466:in the
464:England
286:guineas
282:guineas
225:History
150: (
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1321:Former
1224:Senior
571:', in
331:, 1711
160:Closed
94:1°43′W
206:, in
134:Motto
702:2023
662:p. 3
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194:and
163:1975
152:1550
145:1550
124:Type
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