Winchester College virtues that pupils of the college were supposed to have. The college arms are shown in the background. "The Trusty Servant" is also the name of a magazine published for Old Wykehamists. "Manners makyth man" – William of Wykeham Motto of Winchester College and New College, Oxford "Broad of Church and broad of mind," "Broad before and broad behind," "A keen ecclesiologist, " "A rather dirty Wykehamist." – John Betjeman "The Wykehamist" "Leader in London's preservation lists" "And least Wykehamical of Wykehamists{:}" "Clan chief of Paddington's distinguished set," "Pray go on living to a hundred yet!" – John Betjeman "For
Winchester in the 660s when the West Saxon bishopric was transferred from Dorchester-on-Thames. The present form of the city dates to reconstruction in the late 9th century, when king Alfred the Great obliterated the Roman street plan in favour of a new grid in order to provide better defence against the Vikings. The city's first mint appears to date from this period. In the early tenth century there were two new ecclesiastical establishments, the convent of Nunnaminster, founded by Alfred's widow Ealhswith, and the New Minster. Bishop Æthelwold of Winchester was a leading figure in the monastic reform movement of the