page_title: List of Old Wykehamists
section_title: Eighteenth century
hierarchical_section_title: List of Old Wykehamists / Eighteenth century
caption_attribution_description: English: Field Marshal Sir John Colborne, GCB, GCMG (Baron Seaton), Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey, Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada, founder of Upper Canada College, Commander-in-Chief of the British armed forces during the Rebellions of 1837 in the Canadas, Acting Governor of British North America, Commander-in-Chief of Ireland
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: Robert Lowth, Bishop of London, Hebraist and English grammarian
  William Whitehead, Poet Laureate
  William Collins, poet
  Joseph Warton, literary critic and Headmaster of Winchester
  William Douglas, 4th Duke of Queensberry, nobleman, and a noted gambler
  Thomas Warton, Poet Laureate
  James Eyre, judge
  Charles Wolfran Cornwall, Speaker of the House of Commons
  James Woodforde, clergyman and diarist
  George Isaac Huntingford, Bishop of Hereford and Gloucester
  Thomas Burgess, author
  Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, Prime Minister
  John Hawkins, geologist, traveller, and Fellow of the Royal Society
  William Lisle Bowles, poet who revived the sonnet
  William Howley, Archbishop of Canterbury
  Sydney Smith, essayist and satirist
  Richard Mant, Church of Ireland bishop and writer
  John Colborne, 1st Baron Seaton, Field Marshal and colonial governor
  William Buckland, theologian and geologist
  William Ward, record-scoring cricketer
  Thomas Arnold, headmaster of Rugby
  Walter Farquhar Hook, Tractarian vicar of Leeds
  Thomas Oliphant, musician and lyricist
caption: Field Marshal John Colborne
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