Uppingham

Uppingham, a town of Rutland, 2½ miles WNW. of Seaton by rail (1894), 12 SW. of Stamford, and 83 NNW. of London. The parish church, of which Jeremy Taylor was rector, was restored and in great part rebuilt in 1861; but the feature of Uppingham is its public school, founded in 1584 by Robert Johnson (1540-1625), from 1591 Archdeacon of Leicester. With an endowment of only £1000 a-year, it owes its development from a mere grammar-school to Edward Thring (q.v.), its headmaster from 1853 to 1887. He found it with only twenty-five boarders, and left it with 330; and to him was due the building in 1863, from designs by Street, of the great schoolroom and the decorated chapel, as also of the gymnasium, swimming-bath, &c. Pop. 2500. See the Century Magazine for September 1888.