The King's Hospital

The King's Hospital
Entrance to King's Hospital
Location
Palmerstown, County Dublin Ireland
Coordinates	53.359414,-6.386061
Information
Motto	A School And A Way Of Life
Established	1669
Chairman	Mr Kenneth Peare (Chairman of the Board Of Management)
Principal	Mr John Rafter
Gender	male and female
Number of students	700 (approximately 2/3 are boarders).
Houses	Mercer House, Desmond House, Blackhall House, Swift House, Stuart House, Bluecoat House, Ormonde House, Ivory House, Morgan House, Grace House
Colour(s)	Navy blue and Yellow
Religious order	Church of Ireland
Annual basic fees 2013/2014	7-day boarding – domestic pupils: €14,374.00 / 5-day boarding – domestic pupils: €13,350.00 / 7-day boarding – E.U. pupils: €17,249.00 7-day boarding – Non E.U. pupils €17,968.00 / Day €6,274.00.
Family discounts(pupils concurrently in the school)	1st child at the school - no Discount / 2nd child at the school - 5-day boarding - €667.00, 7-day boarding - €718.00, day pupils - €314.00. 3rd child at the school: 5-day boarding - €1,334.00, 7-day boarding - €1,437.00, day-pupils €628.00. 4th child at the school: 5-day boarding - €1,334.00, 7-day boarding - €1,437.00, day pupils - €628.00
Children of clergy of the Church of Ireland discount 33%)(Canon G.F. Gibson Bursar Fund)	5-day boarding - €4,450.00/ 7-day boarding - €4,790.00 / day pupils - €2,090.00.
Website	kingshospital.ie

7-day boarding – domestic pupils: €14,374.00 / 5-day boarding – domestic pupils: €13,350.00 / 7-day boarding – E.U. pupils: €17,249.00

The King's Hospital is a Church of Ireland co-educational independent boarding and day school situated in Palmerstown, Dublin, Ireland. It is located on an 80-acre campus beside the River Liffey, called Brooklawn, named after the country houses situated on the site and in which the headmaster and their family resides.

Founded in 1669, it is one of the oldest schools in Ireland and was also known as the Blue Coat School. Although priority is given to those of the main Protestant tradition, as a Christian school, it is attended by students of other denominations and faiths. The school's colours are navy and gold. The school crest is three burning castles with the date "1669", almost identical to the crest for Dublin city. The current headmaster is John Rafter.

The school was founded in 1669 as The Hospital and Free School of King Charles II and was located in Queen Street, Dublin. King's Hospital was a continuation of the old Free School of Dublin. On 5 May 1674, the school opened with 60 pupils, including 3 girls. From 1783 to 1971, the school was located in Blackhall Place, Dublin, currently the headquarters of the Law Society of Ireland.

The take-over of Morgan’s School (1957) contributed to steadily increasing numbers of students, and by 1970, a need for extra space and facilities led to the move from the city centre to a modern purpose-built school set in its own 100-acre (400,000 m²) site on the banks of the River Liffey in Palmerstown, County Dublin.

A 57-year-old manuscript by renowned Nobel Prize in Physics winning physicist Erwin Schrödinger recently resurfaced at the school. Entitled "Fragment From An Unpublished Dialogue Of Galileo", it was written for the School's 1955 edition of the annual Blue Coat magazine to coincide with Schrödinger leaving Dublin to take up his appointment as Chair of Physics at the University of Vienna. Schrödinger wrote the manuscript for the school's former English teacher and Editor of the Blue Coat magazine, Ronnie Anderson (now deceased), a friend of Schrödinger when he lived in Dublin. It is now in the possession of Professor Jonathan Coleman in CRANN at Trinity College, Dublin.