Eton College Founded
1441
Henry VI laid the foundation stone for a college at Eton to educate seventy poor scholars in preparation for his companion foundation at King's College, Cambridge. The king's own mental fragility never slowed the building. Eton would outlast his dynasty and all subsequent English dynasties, training future prime ministers for six centuries.
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