SCHOOLS 



headmaster's house and dispersing the residents among new houses under 

 house masters, and encouraging milder methods in discipline and life. 

 He enlarged its borders intellectually by the introduction of new subjects 

 of study, and making mathematics, French and science, which had been 

 mere bywords before, a real part of the school curriculum. Dr. Fearon, 

 the first ' Winchester scholar ' of New College, when scholarships first 

 ceased to be probationary fellowships and were thrown open to competi- 

 tion among the whole school, was a brilliant specimen of the results of 

 competition. At Winchester he won both ' Goddard ' and ' Duncan,' 

 the scholarships for classics and mathematics ; at Oxford he won a 

 ' double first,' first classes in both classics and mathematics, both in 

 ' Moderations ' at the end of two years and in the ' Final schools ' at the 

 end of four years of the University course, and became a fellow of New 

 College. He opened a new house at Winchester in 1868. From 1854 

 to 1901 he begot a constant succession of successes in the schools, and 

 Oxford colleges are replete with Fellows of his production. 



At Easter, 1901, he gave place to Dr. H. M. Burge, the first head- 

 master who, for 450 years, has not hailed from Winchester, and he is a 

 scion of Bedford Grammar School, a Wykehamical offshoot. It was long 

 under the tutelage of New College and still governed by one who may 

 claim to be a second founder, J. S. Phillpotts, scholar of Winchester (1852) 

 and fellow of New College, who found a school of 150 and now governs 

 a school of 800 and upwards. The only fault that can be found with 

 Winchester School at the present time is the retention of a fixed limit of 

 numbers of about 420 boys, fixed by the number of houses and a sup- 

 posed capacity of ' chapel ' and ' chantry.' We may trust that a man 

 coming fresh from outside may not reverence a limitation not more than 

 a generation old, which cramps the development and narrows the influence 

 of the ' doyen ' of our great public schools. 



WARDENS AND HEADMASTERS OF WINCHESTER COLLEGE, 13731902 



The names and dates of wardens are taken mainly from Mackenzie 

 Walcott's William of Wykeham and his Colleges, 1852; those of head- 

 masters from the account rolls and bursars' books up to 1772, supple- 

 mented from the register of New College, which was compiled by the 

 present warden, the Rev. Dr. J. E. Sewell, chiefly from the records of 

 the admission of scholars and fellows there. 



LIST OF WARDENS 



Thomas de Cranle (Cranleigh) of Cranley, John Baker of Aldermaston, Berks, 2 July, 



Surrey, 2O Oct. 1382 1454 



John Westcott, 23 May, 1389 Michael Clyve (Clyff, Cleve) of St. Ebbs, 



John Morys of Gloucestershire, 8 Feb. Oxon. 7 Nov. 1487 



1 393-4 J onn R gde (Read, Reede) of Kingsley, 



Robert Thurburn, 10 Dec. 1413 Hants, 18 Nov. 1501 



Thomas Chandler of St. Cuthbert's, Wells, Ralph Barnacke (Barnake) of Alresford, 



30 Nov. 1450 18 Dec. 1520 



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