Harrow School

Harrow School () is a public school for boys providing boarding school facilities in Harrow on the Hill, London. The school was founded in 1572 by John Lyon, a local landowner and farmer, under a royal charter of Queen Elizabeth I. As of July 2026, the school reported an enrolment of 833 boys, all of whom board full-time, in twelve boarding school houses. It was one of the seven public schools selected for reform in the Public Schools Act 1868. Harrow's uniform includes morning suits, straw boater hats, and top hats and canes for School Monitors. Its list of distinguished alumni includes seven former British prime ministers: Aberdeen, Spencer Perceval, F.J. Goderich, Robert Peel, Henry Palmerston, Stanley Baldwin and Winston Churchill, as well as the former Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru; numerous former and current members of both Houses of the UK Parliament, several members of the Mountbatten-Windsor family, royal families, three Nobel laureates, twenty Victoria Cross holders, and many prominent figures in the arts and sciences.