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Ruthin School was has a long history dating back to 1284, when it was founded in the wake of Edward I’s conquest of Wales. The school was granted its Royal Charter in 1574. Today, the school has evolved into a modern institution with the aim of providing a strong academic foundation to students with big aspirations.
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Ruthin School traces its origins to Edward 1st’s Welsh Conquest. There is no conclusive evidence supporting the school’s assumed formation in 1284, but in “Ruthin School: The First Seven Centuries”, author Keith Kenyon-Thompson (my English teacher at Ruthin School between 1971 – 1979) cites the Taxation of 1291 which lists a collegiate church and school in Ruthin.
We don’t know how much the Ruthin Collegiate Church was involved with Ruthin School, founded around the same time, but it seems likely that they had a major part to play. The members of the Ruthin college were originally secular priests rather than monks or friars, but they may, at some stage, have linked themselves to the Augustinian Order of Friars, which was devoted to study and community.
With a reputation for excellence, Ruthin School is consistently ranked as one of the best UK private schools and has ranked in the top 15 boarding schools in the latest ISC league tables (2023). Ruthin School is a special place because it is more than just a school. Here we encourage and guide our students to aim for the highest grades and have ...
After enjoying two years as a mathematics teacher at Ruthin, he returned to the United States to lecture on the Master of Applied Statistics programme at Colorado State University for three years, returning to Ruthin School as Head of Faculty in 2015. Gerwyn has an interest in many sports, particularly rugby union.
The Letters Patent of Elizabeth l dated May 24th, 1595, granting half of the Tithes of the Rectory of Llanelidan to Ruthin School. During the last decades of the 19th Century, Goodman’s School became unfit for purpose. The facilities of 1574 were found inadequate and improvement was impossible due to lack of space.
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