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St Paul's School
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A *public school for boys was founded in 1509 by the dean of St Paul's Cathedral, John Colet. It stood in St Paul's Churchyard and was burnt, with the old cathedral, in the Great Fire of 1666. Two subsequent buildings housed the school on the same site, until it moved in 1884 to Hammersmith and then again, in 1968, to new premises in Barnes. By the late 19C the funds of the Dean Colet Foundation had grown sufficiently for the trustees to build a girl's school. This opened in 1904 in Hammersmith as the St Paul's Girls' School, and rapidly acquired a high academic reputation.
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