   repton school is a co-educational english independent school for both day and boarding pupils located in the village of repton, derbyshire, in the english midlands. the bequest to found a school either at etwall or repton was made in 1557, with the site of the former repton priory being acquired in 1559. ==history== the school was founded at the bequest of sir john port of etwall, who died on 6 june 1557. port left funds to found a grammar school either at etwall or repton, on the condition that the students of the school pray daily for the souls of his parents and relatives. two years after sir john's death, in 1559, the executors of his will purchased the site of repton priory from the thacker family, for Â£37. 10s. repton priory was a 12th-century augustinian priory, which had been dissolved in 1538. the abbey church and associated buildings had remained standing as the residence of the thacker family until 1553, when then owner, gilbert thacker, fearing the priory would be recommissioned under catholic queen mary i, had the church destroyed; a task that was almost entirely completed within a single day.'houses of austin canons: the priory of repton, with the cell of calke', a history of the county of derby: volume 2 (1907), pp. 58-63. url: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40125 date accessed: 08 
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