Thomas Rotherham College is a college for 16 to 19 year olds, founded in 1967. It is located in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England. The principal is Dr Richard Williams. It is situated on the top of a hill, off Moorgate Road (A618), next to Boston Castle. The college has its origins in Rotherham Grammar School (founded 1483), whose buildings it took over. Its name is derived from the fifteenth century cleric Thomas Rotherham. In the 1960s it had around 600 boys and was administered by the County Borough of Rotherham Education Committee. It became the Thomas Rotherham College in 1967, although it was 1968 before it received its first mixed intake. By the early 1970s it had 400 at the college and 500 by the mid-1980s. The main building of what is now the Thomas Rotherham College was built as a theological college training minsters for Congregational churches. The site (originally 8.5 acres) had been bought in 1870, for £ 3,200. But, the building project was delayed owing to the commercial upheaval arising from the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian war. The building was eventually executed in "collegiate Gothic" at a cost of £ 23,000, and it was opened on 20 September 1876.