page_title: List of Old Wykehamists
section_title: 1820–1839
hierarchical_section_title: List of Old Wykehamists / Nineteenth century / 1820–1839
caption_attribution_description: Francis Trevelyan Buckland, naturalist (died 1880)
context_page_description: Former pupils of Winchester College are known as Old Wykehamists, in memory of the school's founder, William of Wykeham. He was Bishop of Winchester and Lord Chancellor of England. He used the wealth these positions gave him to establish both the school and a university college, New College, Oxford, in 1382; both of them were set up to provide an education for 70 scholars. Winchester College opened in 1394.
  William of Wykeham provided that up to two pupils a year who could prove they were his descendants could attend the school at its expense; they were known as Consanguineus Fundatoris, "Founder's Kin". Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes records that the tradition ended in 1868, by which time fourteen members of his family had received a free education. At first only a small number of pupils other than scholars were admitted; by the 15th century the school had around 100 pupils in total, nominally the 70 scholars, 16 choirboys and the rest "commoners". Demand for places for commoners was high, and though at first restricted, numbers gradually rose. From the 1860s, ten boarding houses, each for up to sixty pupils, were added, greatly increasing the school's capacity.
context_section_description: William Grasett Clarke, cricketer and clergyman
  Matthew Arnold, poet
  James Freeling, cricketer and clergyman
  Frank Buckland, naturalist
  Joseph Birley, cricketer
  James Dewar, cricketer and decorated Crimean War soldier
  Arthur Ridding, cricketer, educator and librarian
  George Ridding, Headmaster of Winchester, later Bishop of Southwell
  Henry Furneaux, scholar of Tacitus
  William Tuckwell, Christian socialist clergyman and author of Reminiscences of Oxford
  Samuel Rawson Gardiner, historian
  Richard Bickerton Pemell Lyons, 2nd Baron Lyons, 1st Viscount and Earl Lyons, diplomat
  Philip Lutley Sclater, lawyer, ornithologist (founder of Ibis), zoogeographer, Secretary of the Zoological Society of London for 42 years
  Ford North, Judge of the High Court of Justice and member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
  Ashley Eden, colonial administrator, member of the Council of India
  Cecil Fiennes, cricketer, descendant of William of Wykeham
  Philip Reginald Egerton, founder of Bloxham School
  Arthur Faber, headmaster of Malvern College
  Wingfield Fiennes, cricketer and clergyman
  Pearkes Gundry, cricketer
caption: Frank Buckland, naturalist
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