# List of founders of English schools and colleges

This is a list of the founders of English schools, colleges, and universities.

## Oxford Colleges

Colleges of the University of Oxford were founded by:
| Founder | College | Year of foundation |
| William of Durham | University College | 1249 |
| John I de Balliol | Balliol College | 1263 |
| Walter de Merton | Merton College | 1264 |
| Walter de Stapledon, Bishop of Exeter | Exeter College | 1314 |
| Adam de Brome | Oriel College | 1324 |
| Robert de Eglesfield, chaplain of Queen Philippa | Queen's College | 1341 |
| William of Wykeham | New College | 1379 |
| Richard Fleming, Bishop of Lincoln | Lincoln College | 1427 |
| Henry Chichele | All Souls College | 1438 |
| William Waynflete, Bishop of Winchester | Magdalen College | 1458 |
| Richard Sutton and William Smyth | Brasenose College | 1509 |
| Richard Fox, Bishop of Winchester | Corpus Christi College | 1517 |
| King Henry VIII | Christ Church | 1546 |
| Sir Thomas Pope | Trinity College | 1555 |
| Sir Thomas White | St John's College | 1555 |
| Hugh Price | Jesus College | 1571 |
| Nicholas and Dorothy Wadham | Wadham College | 1610 |
| King James I William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke Thomas Tesdale Richard Wightwick | Pembroke College | 1624 |
| Sir Thomas Cookes | Worcester College | 1714 |
| Richard Newton | Hertford College | 1740 |
| Elizabeth Wordsworth | St Hugh's College | 1886 |
| Dorothea Beale | St Hilda's College | 1893 |
| Francis Chavasse | St Peter's College | 1929 |

## Cambridge Colleges

Colleges of the University of Cambridge were founded by:
| Founder | College | Year of foundation |
| Hugh de Balsham | Peterhouse | 1284 |
| Margaret of Anjou | Queens' College | 1448 |
| Elizabeth Woodville | Queens' College | 1465 (refounded) |
| John Alcock | Jesus College | 1496 |
| Lady Margaret Beaufort | Christ's College | 1505 |
| Lady Margaret Beaufort & St John Fisher | St John's College | 1511 |
| Thomas Audley | Magdalene College | 1542 (refounded) |
| King Henry VIII | Trinity College | 1546 |
| John Caius | Gonville and Caius College | 1557 (refounded) |
| Frances Sidney, Countess of Sussex | Sidney Sussex College | 1596 |
| Emily Davies Barbara Bodichon Lady Stanley of Alderley | Girton College | 1869 |
| 15th Duke of Norfolk | St Edmund's House, later College | 1896 |

## English schools

English schools were founded by:
| Founder | College | Year of foundation |
| St Augustine | The King's School, Canterbury | 597 AD |
| St Justus | The King's School, Rochester | 604 AD |
| St Paulinus | St Peter's School, York | 627 AD |
| Herbert de Losinga | Norwich School | 1096 |
| Walkelin de Derby | Derby School | c. 1165 |
| Isabella of France | Bablake School | 1344 |
| William of Wykeham | Winchester College | 1382 |
| Katherine, Lady Berkeley | Katharine Lady Berkeley's School | 1384 |
| Henry VI of England | Eton College | 1440 |
| Joan Greyndour | Newland Grammar School | c. 1445 |
| John Colet | St Paul's School | 1509 |
| Hugh Oldham | Manchester Grammar School | 1515 |
| Thomas Horsley | Royal Grammar School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne | 1525 |
| William Radcliffe | Stamford School | 1532 |
| John Incent | Berkhamsted Collegiate School | 1541 |
| King Henry VIII | Durham School The King's School, Canterbury King's Ely The King's School, Chester The King's School, Gloucester The King's School, Peterborough The King's School, Rochester The King's School, Worcester | 1541 (refounded) 1541 (refounded) 1541 (refounded) 1541 1541 1541 1541 (refounded) 1541 |
| William Dauntesey | Dauntsey's School | 1542 |
| King Edward VI | Sherborne School King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford King Edward VI Grammar School, Louth Shrewsbury School King Edward's School, Bath King Edward's School, Birmingham Christ's Hospital | 1550 1551 1551 1552 1552 1552 1552 |
| King Edward VI and Nicholas Ridley | King Edward's School, Witley | 1553 |
| William Harpur | Bedford School | refounded 1552 |
| Sir John Gresham | Gresham's School | 1555 |
| Sir William Laxton | Oundle School | 1556 |
| Queen Elizabeth I | Westminster School | 1560 (refounded) |
| Lawrence Sheriff | Rugby School | 1562 |
| Sir Roger Cholmeley | Highgate School | 1565 |
| Robert Harvard (Father of John Harvard - founder of Harvard University) One of four founders | St. Olave's and St. Saviour's Grammar School | 1571 |
| John Lyon | Harrow School | 1572 |
| Thomas Aldersey | Aldersey Grammar School | 1575 |
| William Lambe | Sutton Valence School | 1576 |
| Edmund Grindal | St Bees School | 1583 |
| John Whitgift | Whitgift School | 1596 |
| Sir Thomas Gresham | Gresham College | 1597 |
| Richard Platt | Aldenham School | 1597 |
| Henry Lee of Ditchley | Aylesbury Grammar School | 1598 |
| Peter Blundell | Blundell's School | 1604 |
| Thomas Sutton | Charterhouse School | 1611 |
| Stephen Perse | The Perse School | 1615 |
| Edward Alleyn | Dulwich College | 1619 |
| Robert Chaloner | Dr Challoner's Grammar School | 1624 |
| William Glegg | Calday Grange Grammar School | 1636 |
| Robert Aske | Haberdashers' Aske's School | 1690 |
| Thomas Thynne, 1st Viscount Weymouth | Lord Weymouth's School now Warminster School | 1707 |
| John Wesley | Kingswood School | 1748 |
| Moses Benson | St. James's School, Liverpool | 1802 |
| Andrew Reed | London Asylum for Orphans (later Reed's School) | 1813 |
| William Sewell | Radley College | 1847 |
| Nathaniel Woodard | Lancing College, 1848 Hurstpierpoint College, 1849 Ardingly College, 1858 Denstone College, 1868 Abbots Bromley School for Girls, 1874 King's College (Taunton), 1880 Ellesmere College, 1884 Worksop College, 1890 | |
| Queen Victoria | Wellington College | 1853 |
| John Percival | Clifton College | 1862 |
| Francis Pocock | Monkton Combe School | 1868 |
| Frederick Savage | Seaford College | 1884 |
| John Haden Badley | Bedales School | 1893 |
| Olive Willis | Downe House | 1907 |
| Alexander Nikitich | Carfax College | 2008 |

## English schools and colleges outside England

* Sir Henry Lawrence - Lawrence Schools at Sanawar, Ooty
* Claude Martin - La Martiniere College Schools at Lucknow, Kolkata and Lyon