Hyde Abbey School was a British

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Winchester Winchester is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city in Hampshire, England. The city lies at the heart of the wider City of Winchester, a local government Districts of England, district, at the western end of the South Downs Nation ...

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, UK. The school was founded by the Reverend Reynell Cotton in around 1760. Cotton was succeeded as headmaster by his son-in-law, the Reverend Charles Richards. In 1795,

Sir John Soane Sir John Soane (; né Soan; 10 September 1753 – 20 January 1837) was an English architect who specialised in the Neoclassical architecture, Neo-Classical style. The son of a bricklayer, he rose to the top of his profession, becoming professo ...

constructed a dedicated schoolroom for the school – his only building in Winchester. By 1847, the school had closed and its building was taken on a lease as the first Hampshire Museum.

Alumni

Alumni include: *

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, Commander of the

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Black Sea Fleet in the

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* Henry John Chitty Harper, former

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* Thomas Garnier, former

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* George Canning, former

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, first

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, former

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, the Irish poet * General Sir George Augustus Wetherall *

George Moberly George Moberly (10 October 1803 – 6 July 1885) was an English cleric who was headmaster of Winchester College, and then served as Bishop of Salisbury from 1869 until his death. Life He was born in St Petersburg, Russia in 1803, the seventh s ...

, former

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and Headmaster of

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* Thomas Townsend, former

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, former

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* Sir Anthony Oliphant, former

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