and some townsfolk advanced on the rioters, who retreated onto a moated island in the school grounds. The Riot Act was read out by a local justice of the peace, calling on the boys to surrender, and while this caused a distraction a group of soldiers waded across the moat from the rear and took the boys prisoner.

Victorian period

Rugby School's most famous headmaster was Thomas Arnold, from 1828 to 1842, whose

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