King Edward's School

King Edward's School (founded 1552) is a boy's grade-school, for ages 11 to 18, in Edgbaston, Birmingham, England.

J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Wiseman, and the other members of their "T.C.B.S." club attended and met each other here in the 1910's. The student body was organized as a eight-part house system, set in place by the father of Tolkien's friend Robert Q. Gilson. After finishing at age 20, Tolkien went on to study at Exeter College, Oxford.

Later in 1954, future Tolkien scholar Tom Shippey went to King Edward's until 1960, and like Tolkien, he played rugby and found a deep love for reading and linguistics.