- RUGBY
- (11), a town in Warwickshire, at the junction of the Swift and the Avon, 83 m. NW. of London; an important railway centre and seat of a famous public school founded in 1567, of which DR. ARNOLD (q.v. ARNOLD, THOMAS), and Archbishops Tait and Temple were famous head-masters, is one of the first public schools in England, and scholars number about 450.
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. James Wood. 1907.