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Rugby (Town in Warwickshire England)

a town in Warwickshire, England; 83 miles N. W. of London and 30 E. S. E. of Birmingham. At the foot of the hill on which it stands the Swift gave John Wyclif's ashes to the Avon; close by, at Ashby and at Dunchurch, the Gunpowder Plot was hatched; the battlefield of Naseby was visited by Carlyle from its school house in 1842, a few days before Arnold's death; it is within a drive of Stratford-on-Avon, Coventry, and Kenilworth. It is the center of a great hunting district and the seat of a worldfamous public school. The school was founded in 1567 by Lawrence Sheriff, a grocer and a staunch supporter of Queen Elizabeth, by a gift of property in Manchester Square, London. After maintaining its position for some time as a good school for the Warwickshire gen try and a few others, specially under Dr.

James and Dr.

Wool, it became of national reputation under Dr. Arnold, who in raising his school, raised at the same time the dignity of his whole profession.

Arthur Acland, and many others famous in British affairs. Pop. about 25,000.