Editing Rugby, Warwickshire (section)

===Influence of Rugby School===
[[Rugby School]] was founded in 1567 with money left in the will of [[Lawrence Sheriff]], a locally born man, who had moved to London and made his fortune as the grocer to [[Elizabeth I of England|Queen Elizabeth I]]. Sheriff had intended Rugby School to be a free [[grammar school]] for local boys, but by the 18th century it had acquired a national reputation and gradually became a mostly fee-paying private school, with most of its pupils coming from outside Rugby. The [[Lawrence Sheriff School]] was eventually founded in 1878 to continue Sheriff's original intentions.<ref>{{cite web|title=SHERIFF, Lawrence|url=http://www.rugby-local-history.org/index.php/biographies?id=97|publisher=Rugby Local History Group|access-date=11 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180412001354/http://www.rugby-local-history.org/index.php/biographies?id=97|archive-date=12 April 2018|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Rughistim"/>
[[File:The High Street, Rugby, 1830.jpg|thumb|Rugby High Street in 1830]]
Until the 19th century, Rugby was a small and relatively unimportant settlement, with only its school giving it any notability. Its growth was slow, due in part to the nearby markets at [[Dunchurch]] and [[Hillmorton]] which were better positioned in terms of road traffic. In 1663 Rugby was recorded as containing 160 houses with a population of around 650. By 1730 this had increased to 183 houses, with a population of around 900. Rugby's importance and population increased more rapidly during the late 18th and early 19th century due to the growing national reputation of Rugby School, which had moved from its original location at a (now long vanished) schoolhouse north of St Andrew's Church, to its present location south of the town centre by 1750. By the time of the first national census in 1801, Rugby had a population of 1,487 with 278 houses. By 1831 this had increased further to 2,501 in 415 houses. This growth was driven by parents who wished to send their boys to Rugby School, but were unable to afford the boarding fees and so took up residence in Rugby, this in turn attracted domestic staff and tradesmen to the town to service the needs of the newcomers.<ref name="RFASPAST">''Rugby, Further Aspects Of The Past'' (1977) Rugby Local History Group</ref><ref name="BHOL"/><ref name="RGOAT"/>