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 College Robert Birley and Anthony Chenevix-Trench. M. R. James was a provost. In 1959, the College constructed a nuclear bunker to house the College's Provost and Fellows. The facility is now used for storage. In 2005, the School was one of fifty of the country's leading independent schools found to have breached the Competition Act 1998 (see below under "Controversy"). In 2011, plans to attack Eton were found on the body of a senior al-Qaeda leader shot dead in Somalia. The school is headed by a Provost and Fellows (Board of Governors), who appoint the Head Master. It contains 25 boys'