page_title: List of Old Wykehamists
section_title: 1870–1879
hierarchical_section_title: List of Old Wykehamists / Nineteenth century / 1870–1879
caption_attribution_description: English: British statistician William Sealy Gosset, known as "Student", taken in 1908 Français&#160;: William Sealy Gosset, connu sous le nom de «&#160;Student&#160;», statisticien anglais. Photographie prise en 1908 Polski: William Sealy Gosset, statystyk angielski.
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: Bernard Granville Baker, soldier, author, military artist
  Lord Alfred "Bosie" Douglas, poet and companion of Oscar Wilde
  Edmund Fellowes, musicologist, clergyman
  Alnod Boger, cricketer
  Thomas Case, cricketer and brewer
  Udny Yule, statistician
  Edmund Backhouse, "The Hermit of Peking"
  William Case, cricketer
  Vyner Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak
  Ewart Grogan, explorer and colonist
  Thomas Henderson, cricketer and surgeon
  Rupert D'Oyly Carte, Savoy opera producer, hotelier
  William Sealy Gosset, statistician with Guinness (inventor of Student's t-test)
  G. H. Hardy, mathematician and mentor of Ramanujan
  Robert Lock Graham Irving, schoolmaster, writer and mountaineer
  Leopold George Wickham Legg, historian and editor of the Dictionary of National Biography
  Henry Howard, 19th Earl of Suffolk, peer
  Percy Bates, shipbuilder and Inkling
  Edward Grigg, 1st Baron Altrincham, colonial administrator and politician
  Eric Maclagan, Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum
  Alan Reynolds, cricketer and soldier
  Jack White, trade union organiser, Irish republican and socialist who co-founded the Irish Citizen Army
  Ralph Williams, cricketer and barrister
  Alfred Eckhard Zimmern, Zionist historian and political scientist
caption: William Sealy Gosset, statistician, inventor of Student's t-test
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