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Royal Grammar School, Newcastle upon Tyne, usually abbreviated as RGS, is a selective British independent school for pupils aged between 7 and 18 years. Founded in 1525 by Thomas Horsley, the Mayor of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, it received royal foundation by Queen Elizabeth I and is the city's oldest institution of learning. The School is located in Newcastle upon Tyne, in North East England, and is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference. In 2008, RGS became fully co-educational after 450 years as an all boys' school. It has a current enrollment of more than 1,200 pupils. RGS has a long list of distinguished former pupils including academics, politicians and British aristocracy. Former students are known as ''Old Novocastrians'' or ''Old Novos'' ("Novocastrian" is macaronic Latin for "citizen of Newcastle"). In 2012 the Sunday Times Schools Guide named RGS the top performing school in the North of England based on academic results from A-levels and GCSEs.〔http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/communities/jesmond-and-sandyford/2012/11/24/jesmond-rgs-is-top-school-72703-32299399/〕〔http://www.journallive.co.uk/north-east-news/todays-news/2011/02/21/royal-grammar-school-praised-for-achievements-61634-28204637/〕 In 2015, RGS was named Best School in the North of England by the Sunday Times Schools Guide . In the October of 2015, the school was also the team base for the Scottish national rugby union team during the 2015 Rugby World Cup.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.rgs.newcastle.sch.uk/RGS-Welcomes-Scottish-Rugby-Team )〕 ==History== The RGS was founded in 1525 by Thomas Horsley, within the grounds of St Nicholas' Church, Newcastle. Planning is believed to have begun as early as 1477. The site has moved five times since then, most recently to Jesmond in 1906. The new school building was officially opened on 17 January 1907. An 1868 description reads: There are many public schools, the principal one being the Royal Free Grammar school founded in 1525 by Thomas Horsley, Mayor of Newcastle, and made a royal foundation by Queen Elizabeth. It is held in the old hall of St. Mary's Hospital, built in the reign of James I., and has an income from endowment of about £500, besides a share in Bishop Crew's 12 exhibitions at Lincoln College, Oxford, lately abolished, and several exhibitions to Cambridge. The number of scholars is about 140. Hugh Moises, and Dawes, author of "Miscellanea Critica," were once head-masters, and many celebrated men have ranked among its pupils, including W. Elstob, Bishop Ridley, Mark Akenside, the poet, Chief Justice Chambers, Brand, the antiquary and town historian, Horsley, the antiquary, and Lords Eldon, Stowell, and Collingwood.〔 George III, on reading one of Admiral Collingwood's despatches after Trafalgar, asked how the seaman had learned to write such splendid English, but he answered himself, recalling that, along with Eldon and Stowell, he had been a pupil of Hugh Moises: "I forgot. He was one of Moises' boys." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Royal Grammar School, Newcastle upon Tyne」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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