Houses
There are four houses, named after Medieval and Elizabethan figures connected with the school and the city of London.
| House | Named after |
|---|---|
| Queen's | Queen Elizabeth I |
| Walworth | William Walworth, former Lord Mayor of London |
| Taverner | Richard Taverner, Bible translator |
| Lovekyn | John and Edward Lovekyn, benefactors |
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Famous quotes containing the word houses:
“They shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Exodus 12:7.
“To me heaven would be a big bull ring with me holding two barrera seats and a trout stream outside that no one else was allowed to fish in and two lovely houses in the town; one where I would have my wife and children and be monogamous and love them truly and well and the other where I would have my nine beautiful mistresses on nine different floors.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)
“Nothing will be left white but here a birch,
And there a clump of houses with a church.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)