page_title: List of Old Wykehamists
section_title: 1860–1869
hierarchical_section_title: List of Old Wykehamists / Nineteenth century / 1860–1869
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: Il Ministro degli Esteri britannico Edward Grey nel 1914.
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: Francis J. Haverfield, historian of Roman Britain
  Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, Foreign Secretary 1905–16
  Arthur Cayley Headlam, Principal of King's College London (1903–16) Bishop of Gloucester (1923–45)
  Frederic G. Kenyon, classical scholar
  Robert Laurie Morant, administrator and educator
  Arthur Cobb, wicket-keeper on early tour of America
  John Beresford Leathes, physiologist
  Major-General Harold Goodeve Ruggles-Brise, cricketer and soldier
  H. A. L. Fisher, historian, politician
  Arthur Pearson, newspaper magnate, founder of the Daily Express
  Herbert Lyon, cricketer
  Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford, Colonial Governor and Viceroy of India
  Claud Schuster, 1st Baron Schuster, Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor 1915–1944
  General Reginald Byng Stephens, soldier
  Ernest Makins, soldier, statesman and politician
caption: Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, Foreign Secretary, 1914
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