Liverpool College is an independent school located in the suburbs of Liverpool, England. The school was one of the 13 founding members of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference. Liverpool College was the first of many public schools founded in the Victorian Era. Other schools founded in this period include Cheltenham College (1841), Marlborough College (1843), Rossall School (1844), Brighton College (1845), Radley College(1847), Lancing College (1848), Bradfield College(1850), Wellington College (1853) and Malvern College (1865). The foundation stone of the original building was laid on the 22nd October 1840 by Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby K.G. (then styled the Rt. Hon. Lord Stanley MP), the first patron of the College. A group of Christian Liverpool citizens, many of whose names are now famous in the annals of the city, then began the building of a school where education might be combined with ‘sound religious knowledge’. The original building in Shaw street (now apartments) is in the so-called Tudor-Gothic style. It was designed by Mr. Harvey Lonsdale Elmes, and was erected at a cost of £35,000. The College was opened on 6 January 1843 by the Right Hon.