Felsted School is an English co-educational day and boarding independent school, situated in Felsted in England.
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10 Facts About Felsted School
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Felsted School is featured in the Good Schools Guide and is regularly featured in Tatler's Schools Guide.
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Felsted School was shortlisted for 'Boarding School of the Year' 2020 by the Times Education Supplement .
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Felsted School is notable for having educated a British head of state, Richard Cromwell.
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Felsted School was founded in 1564 by Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich who, as Lord Chancellor and Chancellor of the Court of Augmentations, acquired considerable wealth from the spoils of the Dissolution of the Monasteries including the nearby Leez Priory where he lived.
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Thereafter, Felsted rapidly developed into one of the regular public schools of the modern English type, under the Rev W S Grignon.
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Felsted School was evacuated to three Herefordshire houses near Ross-on-Wye during the Second World War at the owners invitation to be out of the way of German bombing.
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Felsted School unveiled plaques for the visit as well as officially opening the newly constructed Follyfield House.
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Felsted School is featured in the Good Schools Guide and is regularly featured in Tatler's Schools Guide.
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Felsted School was shortlisted for 'Boarding School of the Year' 2020 by the Times Education Supplement .
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