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CITY OF OXFORD HIGH SCHOOL FOR BOYS, GEORGE STREET ENTRANCE
By an unknown photographer*
The City of Oxford High School for Boys was opened in 1881. It had been founded by the
Oxford City Corporation and the University, and was intended to give pupils 'the best
education . . . both for those who will leave for business or the English Civil Service,
at about the age of fifteen, and those who will stay on . . . and enter the university.'
1 In Lawrence’s time there were about 150 pupils, the majority fee-paying, and
his parents paid £8 a year for tuition. By 1896 the school already had an enviable
academic reputation; half the boys in Lawrence’s year went on to study at Oxford
University.
1. Reminiscences 1881-1981 - City of Oxford High School
- Oxford
* Replaces a monochrome photograph in the printed catalogue.
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