Eton College receiving financial assistance from the school continues to increase. Eton College was founded by King Henry VI as a charity school to provide free education to 70 poor boys who would then go on to King's College, Cambridge, founded by the same King in 1441. Henry took Winchester College as his model, visiting on many occasions, borrowing its Statutes and removing its Headmaster and some of the Scholars to start his new school. When Henry VI founded the school, he granted it a large number of endowments, including much valuable land. The group of feoffees appointed by the king to
Eton Manor Boys' Club Eton Manor site in 2014. Six sports clubs originating from Eton Manor Boys' Club and the Eton Mission are still in existence: Eton Manor Boys' Club Eton Manor Boys' Club was a boys' sports club in London, England. Eton Manor Boys' Club takes its name from Eton College, which from the 1880s had run a Christian mission to raise living standards in the Hackney Wick area of the East End of London, and from the Manor Farm, bought in 1912 to build a new sports clubhouse. The Mission Church, St Mary of Eton, is still the parish church, but combined