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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Harrow School
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One of the best-known of boys' *public schools, which took in its first pupils in 1615 in Harrow-on-the-Hill – at that time a small town a few miles to the northwest of London. The school was founded and endowed under the will of John Lyon, who had died in 1592. Harrow has had many distinguished pupils, including *Byron and Robert *Peel, but the best known of all was an unsuccessful schoolboy, Winston *Churchill. There is a strong tradition of games; the annual cricket match against Eton at Lord's dates back to 1805, and it was at Harrow that *squash was invented.
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It also has the most famous of school songs, written in 1872 by two masters (words Edward Bowen, tune John Farmer): Forty years on, when afar and asunder Parted are those who are singing today, When you look back, and forgetfully wonder What you were like in your work and your play, Then, it may be, there will often come o'er you, Glimpses of notes like the catch of a song – Visions of boyhood shall float them before you, Echoes of dreamland shall bear them along.
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