3-052-587 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

City of Oxford High School for Boys, 1880. '...the foundation-stone of the new High School for Boys at Oxford was laid on the 13th April by Prince Leopold. [The Prince made a speech]. "Gentlemen,...I had no hesitation in accepting your invitation to be present at to-day's ceremony, for I feel that, apart from the privilege of being associated with so honourable an undertaking as the foundation of the City of Oxford High School for Boys, the city and University of Oxford have always a prior claim upon my time and services; for it was here that I first became acquainted, so to speak, with the outer world, and it was here that I found displayed before me those educational advantages which I am so anxious should be placed, in some degree at least, within the reach of all".' The school was founded in 1881 by Thomas Hill Green to provide Oxford boys with an education which would enable them to prepare for University. The Victorian stone building, bearing the arms of both the City and University, was designed by Sir Thomas Jackson. From "Illustrated London News", 1880.