Selborne College is a public, male-only school in East London, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Selborne College was founded in 1872 by Pastor Heinrich Muller, a German settler, and at that stage was known as the Panmure Public School. In 1880 the first recorded sporting engagement involving the school took place, namely a cricket match against Dale College in King William’s Town. In 1892 another sporting milestone was reached when this school played its first rugby match. Again the opponents were Dale College. After Pastor Muller's resignation in 1896, John Young piloted the school through an eventful seven year period that encompassed the South African War and saw the school move premises to Muir Street. It was under headmaster, George Rattray, in 1907 that the school was named Selborne College in honour of the Second Earl of Selborne, High Commissioner from 1905 to 1910, whose Selborne Memorandum became the blueprint for the Union of South Africa. The Selborne family coat of arms and motto were adopted as the College badge and motto. Palma Virtuti ('Reward is to the Brave') underpins the approach to both the academic and extra-curricular activities of the school.