Charterhouse School The Hospital of King James and Thomas Sutton in Charterhous, Godalming, Surrey, England, United Kingdom
| Latitude | 51°11′47.59″N |
| Longitude | 0°37′21.01″W |
| City | Godalming |
| Church Parish | Waverly |
| County | Surrey |
| State/ Province | England |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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In 1611, Thomas Sutton founded Charterhouse School in London, on the site of the old Carthusian monastery in Charterhouse Square, Smithfield,
It is one of the original nine English public schools, as defined by the Public Schools Act 1868.
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Charterhouse established a reputation for excellence in hospital care and treatment, due to Henry Levett, MD, an Oxford graduate who joined the school as physician in 1712.
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In 1872, Charterhouse was moved to its present site by the then headmaster, the Reverend Dr Haig Brown, having ought a 68 acre (270,000 m²) site on a hill just outside Godalming, where they constructed three boarding houses, Saunderites (once the headmaster's house), Verites and Gownboys (for scholars, who were entitled to wear gowns).
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Up to the 1970s, Charterhouse was all male, then girls were first admitted in the sixth form (the final two years).
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In 1967, the band, Genesis, was formed by Peter Gabriel and Tony Banks, while students at Charterhouse School.
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| 1 | Web Home | Charterhouse School, from Wikipedia |