Marlborough College in Wiltshire has expressed an interest in what it calls a collaboration with a school in Swindon.

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Singleton himself says he remembers the young Middleton studying away in preparation for her General Certificate of Secondary Education (GSCE) at Marlborough College.

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Marlborough exemplified England's class system, for it lay in the shadow of Marlborough College, one of the nation's great public schools, a preserve of tradition and privilege.

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A. Butler, a child of empire if ever there was one, describes his failing the Eton scholarship (the mere fact that his family wanted a scholarship would have told the discerning something about his origins) and being consigned to the outer darkness of Marlborough school and Pembroke College, Cambridge.

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