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Charterhouse
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Boys' *public school, which since 1872 has been in the country near Goldalming in Surrey. It moved there from London, where it was founded in 1611 on the site of a *Carthusian monastery destroyed in the Reformation – hence the name Charterhouse and the reason why boys from the school are known as Carthusians. The founder of the school was a rich merchant, Thomas Sutton (1532–1611), who at the same time established an adjacent almshouse (the Charterhouse pensioners still live on the original site). Since 1972 girls have been admitted to Charterhouse for the final two years, in the sixth form.
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