History
It was established in 1674, following the death of William Harvey, the eminent physician and discoverer of the major details of blood circulation. A small class with one teacher was first created, until Sir Eliab Harvey, William's nephew, acting as executor of his uncle's will, founded a larger school of the same name.
In July 1921, the body of the headmaster, 43-year-old Major Denham, was found in undergrowth in Hawkinge with self-inflicted bullet wounds.
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