Thomas Tenison, an educational evangelist and later Archbishop of Canterbury, founded several schools in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. A boys' school now at the Oval was founded in 1685 in the crypt of St Martin's in the Fields and relocated by 1895 in Leicester Square on the site previously occupied by the Sabloniere Hotel.
Thomas Tenison, an educational evangelist and later Archbishop of Canterbury, established numerous schools in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. A boys' school now at the Oval was founded in 1685 within the crypt of St Martin's in the Fields and moved to Leicester Square by 1895 on the site previously occupied by the Sabloniere Hotel.