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Charterhouse School

Charterhouse
Charterhouse School Crest.png
Motto Latin: Deo Dante Dedi
("God having given, I give")
Established 1611
Type Independent day and boarding school
Religion Church of England
Headmaster Andrew Turner
Second Master James Kazi
Chairman of Governors Nigel Kempner
Founder Thomas Sutton
Location Godalming
Surrey
GU7 2DX
United Kingdom
Coordinates: 51°11′48″N 0°37′21″W / 51.196552°N 0.622504°W / 51.196552; -0.622504
DfE number 936/6041
DfE URN 125340 Tables
Staff ~100 full-time
Students ~800
Gender Boys; Coed (sixth form)
Ages 13–18
Houses 12
Colours

Pink, blue and maroon

            
Publication The Carthusian
Former pupils Old Carthusians
School Song Carmen Carthusianum
Website www.charterhouse.org.uk

Pink, blue and maroon

Charterhouse is an independent day and boarding school in Godalming, Surrey. Founded by Thomas Sutton in 1611 on the site of the old Carthusian monastery in Charterhouse Square, Smithfield, London, it educates over 800 pupils, aged 13 to 18 years, and is one of the original seven English public schools as defined by the Public Schools Act 1868 (which derived from the Clarendon Commission of 1864). Today pupils are still referred to as Carthusians, and ex-pupils as Old Carthusians.

Charging full boarders up to £36,000 per annum in 2015/16, Charterhouse is amongst the most expensive Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC) schools in the UK. It has educated one British Prime Minister and has a long list of notable alumni.

In May 1611, the London Charterhouse came into the hands of Thomas Sutton (1532–1611) of Knaith, Lincolnshire. He acquired a fortune by the discovery of coal on two estates which he had leased near Newcastle-on-Tyne, and afterwards, removing to London, he carried on a commercial career. In 1611, the year of his death, he endowed a hospital on the site of the Charterhouse, calling it the hospital of King James, and in his will he bequeathed moneys to maintain a chapel, hospital (almshouse) and school. He died on 12 December and subsequently the will was hotly contested but upheld in court, and the foundation was finally constituted to afford a home for eighty male pensioners (gentlemen by descent and in poverty, soldiers that have borne arms by sea or land, merchants decayed by piracy or shipwreck, or servants in household to the King or Queens Majesty), and to educate forty boys.


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