DULWICH COLLEGE

DULWICH COLLEGE, or 'College of God's Gift at Dulwich,' was founded in 1619 by Edward Alleyn (q.v.), the actor. The old college buildings occupy three sides of a quadrangle, and comprise the chapel, chaplain's house, alms-rooms, and the Lower School, in which 160 boys receive a second-grade education at the nominal fee of £1 per annum. The Upper School, giving a first-grade education, was, in 1870, transferred to new buildings in the Italian style of the 13th century, erected at a cost of nearly £100,000. It provides accommodation for about 600 boys. The foundation also includes an almshouse for the maintenance of twelve poor brethren, twelve poor sisters, and twelve out-pensioners. The picture-gallery, specially rich in Dutch paintings, had been collected for Stanislaus, king of Poland, and was bequeathed by the painter, Sir Peter Francis Bourgeois (1756-1811). The annual revenue amounts to £20,000, derived from Dulwich manor. In 1885 Dulwich was included in Camberwell parliamentary borough. See works by Hovenden (1873), Blanch (1877), Warner (Catalogue, 1881), Galer (1891), Yonng (College, 1891).