King's College School in Wimbledon, South West London, England UK. Photo:Jeff Gilbert
King's College School in Wimbledon, south-west London, commonly referred to as King's, KCS or KCS Wimbledon, is a selective independent day school. The school is a member of the elite Eton Group and was founded as the junior department of King's College London and occupied part of its premises in Strand, before relocating to Wimbledon in 1897. From September 2010, King's will admit girls into the sixth form. A Royal Charter by King George IV originally founded the School in 1829 as the junior department of the newly established King's College, London. The School occupied the basement of the College in The Strand. Most of its original eighty-five pupils lived in the City within walking distance of the School. During the early Victorian Period, the School grew in numbers and reputation. Members of the teaching staff included Gabriele Rossetti, who taught Italian. His son, Dante Gabriel, joined the School in 1837. The best known of the early masters was the water-colourist, John Sell Cotman. Nine of his pupils became practising artists and ten architects. The School was progressive in its curriculum in many areas and appointed its first Science Master in 1855, at a time where very few schools taught science. The first Head Master, John Major, served the School between 1831–1866. Ninety-nine of the school's pupils from this period appear in the Dictionary of National Biography. Until the 1880s, the School flourished. In 1882, only Eton College surpassed the total of thirty Oxford and Cambridge Board examination certificates obtained by pupils at KCS. But the School's teaching facilities were becoming increasingly inadequate as many competitor schools moved to new sites with modern facilities and large playing fields. In 1897, falling numbers of pupils prompted the move to the School's present site in Wimbledon, a fast growing suburb well served by the railway lines from Surrey and south London. Photo:Jeff Gilbert
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