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Encyclopedia: Westminster School
The Royal College of St Peter at Westminster (almost always known as Westminster School) is one of Britain's top boys' independent schools and one of the nine British public schools, as set out in the Public Schools Act 1868. It is located next to Westminster Abbey in central London, with a history stretching back beyond the 12th century. Its A-level results in 2004, 2005, 2006 and other years over the preceding two decades have been among the highest in the country. The school traditionally aims to help development of independent and individual thinking.The Head Master since 2005 is Dr Stephen Spurr, and there are currently 742 boys and girls, of whom around a third are boarders; most go home for the weekends, after Saturday morning school. Boys are admitted to the Under School at age seven or eleven and the main school at age thirteen. Girls are only admitted to the two senior years of the school (ages 16–18).
Previous Head Masters include Tristram Jones-Parry, John Rae, Richard Busby, William Camden, Nicholas Udall, John Freind, and William Gunion Rutherford.
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Richard Wollheim (d. November 4, 2003) was a British philosopher. He was the chairman of the Department of Philosophy of the University of California, Berkeley from 1998 to 2002. He attended Westminster School and then Balliol, Oxford...
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List of UK Independent Schools
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