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
Public school (United Kingdom) post of Chancellor of the Exchequer for myself". Up to the war, the role of public schools in preparing pupils for the gentlemanly elite meant that such education, particularly in its classical focus and social mannerism, became a mark of the ruling class. For three hundred years, the officers and senior administrators of the British Empire usually sent their sons back home to boarding schools for education as gentlemen, often for uninterrupted periods of a year or more at a time. The 19th-century public school ethos promoted ideas of service to Crown and Empire, understood by the broader public in