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 Choral Courses Eton Choral Courses The Eton Choral Courses were founded by Ralph Allwood in 1980 while at Uppingham School. The courses run each summer and offer vocal training and the experience of choral singing to young singers (usually between 16 and 20 years old). In recent years the courses have been held over seven weeks, in Oxford, Cambridge and Durham as well as Eton College. Each course lasts a week, and comprises classes in sight-singing, aural tests and consort singing (close harmony). Learning Choral music is central to the course, and course members have often had the opportunity to sing in