Search results
Dulwich College is a 2–18 private, day and boarding school for boys in Dulwich, London, England. As a public school, it began as the College of God's Gift, founded in 1619 by Elizabethan actor Edward Alleyn, with the original purpose of educating 12 poor scholars. It began to grow into a large school from 1857, and took its current form in ...
- 1619; 404 years ago
- Latin: Detur Gloria Soli Deo, (Let Glory Be Given To God Alone)
Jun 7, 2023 · Jun 7, 2023. Dulwich College was founded by Edward Alleyn on 21 June, 1619 with letters patent from King James I. An actor linked to Shakespeare's Globe Theatre and an entrepreneur in the world of Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre, Alleyn was a colourful and famous figure of his days. Alleyn decided to establish a school for boys in London that ...
Edward Alleyn founded Christ’s College of God’s Gift in 1619 for twelve ‘poor scholars’ and, four centuries later, we are blessed to have the gift of a diverse, welcoming and international community of Alleynians and Old Alleynians. This year we mark 400 years of Dulwich College history and look forward to the next 100 years.
People also ask
Who founded Dulwich College?
When was Dulwich Grammar School established?
Who is Dulwich College International?
What is an old boy at Dulwich College called?
A celebration of Sport, Drama, Music and Art. One of the highlight of our 400th years celebration is Dulwich Olympiad 2019, which brings together a representative body of students from Dulwich College International family of schools to participate in workshops and events, and to showcase their talents in competitions and performances together with students of the founding school in London ...
New buildings for Dulwich College were built between 1866 and 1870 in College Road. James Allen’s Girls’ School was established on its present site in East Dulwich Grove in 1886 and Alleyn’s School moved to its buildings in Townley Road in 1887. Picture credit: Dulwich College. The New College Dulwich, Charles Barry Junior, 1870.
A Brief History of Dulwich College. During the summer of 1605, at the age of 38, Edward Alleyn began to negotiate with Sir Francis Calton, a member of a prominent City goldsmith’s family who was knighted in 1605 and became Lord Mayor in 1612, for the manor of Dulwich, including ‘the wodes upon the waste’. Calton’s grandfather Thomas had ...
Marshall was educated at Dulwich College and at King’s College, Cambridge. He took part in excavations on Crete under the auspices of the British School at Athens, where he studied from 1898 to 1901. Despite his youth, he was appointed director general of archaeology in India in 1902. Marshall reorganized the Indian Archaeological Survey and ...
