The Great Rebellion of 1797
- When
- 1797
- Where
- Rugby School
- Part of
- Rugby School Rebellion
Rugby School pupils rebelled against headmaster Henry Ingles in 1797, after his window-damage decree and his discovery that grocer Mr Rowell supplied cork-gun gunpowder.
Ingles, headmaster since 1794 and nicknamed 'The Black Tiger' for his strict discipline, heard one of the boys shoot a cork gun; the boy told him that Mr Rowell, a grocer, had supplied the gunpowder. Ingles also decreed that damage to a tradesman's windows should be paid for by the students. These measures provoked the students to rebel against him in 1797, an uprising remembered as the 'Great Rebellion' and the most notable event of his headmastership.
Sources
- Rugby School Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-10
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