Canterbury - King's School

King's School, situated in the northern corner of the Close, was founded by Henry VIII in 1541 - although, being a center of Anglo Saxon culture from as early as 600, there had been a school at Canterbury for centuries before that. Among the King's School's many famous pupils were the Canterbury-born dramatist Christopher Marlowe (1564-93), William Harvey (1578-1657), discoverer of the circulation of the blood, and William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) whose novel "Of Human Bondage" includes a portrayal of life in the school.