Marlborough College

Marlborough College is a British boarding school in the county of Wiltshire, founded in 1843 for the education of the sons of clergy, although it is now mixed. There are now just over 800 pupils, approximately one third of whom are girls (Marlborough was, in 1968, the first major English public school to allow girls into the sixth form, setting a trend that many other schools would follow). New pupils are admitted at the ages of 13+ ("Shell entry") and 16 (Lower Sixth).

The college is dominated by its Victorian Gothic style chapel.

The school made the news in an embarrassing way in 2002, when a teacher invigilating for pupils sitting a mock AS-level examination accidentally displayed pornographic images of women to them, forgetting that his personal computer was linked up to a monitor.

Currently, Princess Eugenie of York is attending Marlborough College.

Past pupils

• John Betjeman, British poet
• Sir Charles Galton Darwin, British physicist
• Nick Drake, British folk musician
• Sir Peter Medawar, Nobel prize-winning biologist
• William Morris, British artist and writer
• Siegfried Sassoon, British poet
• Charles Sorley, British poet
• Hallam Tennyson, Lord Tennyson, British statesman
• Alan Turing, British computer scientist
• Norris and Ross McWhirter journalists, authors and political activists.

External links

• Marlborough College website
• "Teacher displays porn during exam" - BBC News article dated Tue 21 May 2002