Editing Winchester College (section)

== Influence ==

{{further|Winchester College in fiction}}

Winchester's approach to education was influential on later schools. It was unusual in the medieval period in giving education to boys aged 12–18, as universities would accept students within this age range.<ref name="Leach 1899 159–160"/> The age range, the double foundation with New College, Oxford, and the approach to discipline formed the model for [[Eton College]] and [[King's College, Cambridge]], some 50 years later.<ref name="Clutton-Brock 1900 3–5"/>

Pupils of the school have appeared in [[Winchester College in fiction|many works of fiction]]: the school itself rather less often.{{sfn|Sabben-Clare|1981|pp=177–180}} The figure of Sir [[Humphrey Appleby]] in the TV series ''[[Yes Minister]]'' is among the best-known Old Wykehamists in fiction.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Leys |first1=Colin |title=The Dissolution of the Mandarins: the sell-off of the British state |url=https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/dissolution-of-mandarins-sell-off-of-british-state/ |website=Open Democracy |access-date=6 November 2022 |date=15 June 2012}}</ref>

As with other prominent public schools, a locomotive of the [[Southern Railway (UK)|Southern Railway]] [[SR V Schools class|V Class]] was named after Winchester College. The second of the class, No. 901 ''Winchester'' was constructed by Southern at the nearby [[Eastleigh Works]]; it entered service in 1930.<ref>{{cite book |last=Russell |first=J. H. |title=A Pictorial History of Southern Locomotives |publisher=Haynes Publishing |year=1991 |page=306}}</ref>