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UPPINGHAM

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 783 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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UPPINGHAM , a See also:

market See also:town of See also:Rutland, See also:England, 98 m. N.N.E. of See also:London, on a See also:branch of the London & See also:North-Western railway. Pop. (1901) 2588. The See also:church of St See also:Peter and St See also:Paul has Decorated portions in the See also:nave, See also:tower and See also:spire. The See also:pulpit is of the 17th See also:century. See also:Jeremy See also:Taylor was See also:rector here at the outbreak of the See also:Civil See also:War. The See also:principal institution of Uppingham is the school. It is coeval with the See also:grammar school of See also:Oakham (1584), and had the same founder, See also:Robert See also:Johnson, See also:archdeacon of See also:Leicester. It See also:rose in the last See also:half of the 19th century to a See also:place of distinction among See also:English public See also:schools, owing to the exertions of its headmaster (1853-77), the Rev. See also:Edward See also:Thring. A new See also:group of school-buildings, with See also:chapel, was erected in 1863 from the designs of G.

E. See also:

Street. New (Tercentenary) class-rooms were opened in 1890, and a memorial chapel, containing a statue of Edward Thring, by T. See also:Brock, R.A., was erected in 1891. The See also:Victoria See also:Building, containing museum, laboratory and lecture See also:theatre, was opened in 1897. The quadrangle is by T. G. See also:Jackson, R.A., and over the gateway is a statue of the founder, by G. J. Frampton, R.A. The school contains about 450 boys. There are See also:general exhibitions to the See also:universities, and also several, in which scholars of this school and Oakham school have preference, at St See also:John's, See also:Clare, See also:Emmanuel and See also:Sidney See also:Sussex colleges, See also:Cambridge.

The town of Uppingham has some agricultural See also:

trade.

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