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'''Rugby School''' is a major public school (the equivalent of a private school in the US) in the town of [[Rugby, Warwickshire]], in the Midlands of [[England]]. Its claims to fame include Thomas Arnold, its headmaster from 1828 to 1841, who was the architect of the [[Victorian]] public school, with its emphasis on [[muscular Christianity]], sporting effort and the study of the classics; the famous novel by Thomas Hughes, ''[[Tom Brown's Schooldays]]'', inspired by Hughes' admiration for Arnold's reforms; and the sport of [[Rugby Union]], which was named after the school, having supposedly been invented by a scholar named William Webb-Ellis, who, according to legend, while playing [[football]], picked the ball up and ran with it. Numerous famous authors, lawyers and scientists are Old Rugbeians, as former pupils of Rugby are known, including [[Salman Rushdie]] and [[Anthony Horowitz]]. Politicians educated at Rugby include [[Neville Chamberlain]], whose disastrous policy of [[appeasement]] of [[Nazi]] Germany overshadowed a lifetime of achievement in the field of social reform.

'''Rugby School''' is a major public school (the equivalent of a private school in the US) in the town of [[Rugby, Warwickshire]], in the Midlands of [[England]]. Its claims to fame include Thomas Arnold, its headmaster from 1828 to 1841, who was the architect of the [[Victorian]] public school, with its emphasis on [[muscular Christianity]], sporting effort, and the study of the classics, and also the sport of [[Rugby Union]], commonly called "rugby".  This game was supposedly invented by a scholar named William Webb-Ellis, who, according to legend, while playing "European [[football]]" (approximately what Americans call [[soccer]]), picked the ball up and ran with it.  

 

The famous novel by Thomas Hughes, ''Tom Brown's Schooldays'', was inspired by Hughes' admiration for Arnold's reforms.  Numerous famous authors, lawyers and scientists are Old Rugbeians, as former pupils of Rugby are known, including [[Salman Rushdie]] and [[Anthony Horowitz]]. Politicians educated at Rugby include [[Neville Chamberlain]], who was known for social reform and for the appeasement of Nazi Germany just before World War II.

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