Wellington College, the national monument to the Duke of Wellington, is a British co-educational independent school located in the village of Crowthorne in Berkshire. Wellington College was granted its royal charter in 1853 as the Royal and Religious Foundation of The Wellington College, and was opened in 1859. Its first master was Edward White Benson, later Archbishop of Canterbury. The college's Visitor is HM The Queen. Wellington currently has just under 1000 pupils aged between 13 and 18. The school is a member of the Rugby Group, which also includes Harrow School and Charterhouse School and is also a member of the G20 Schools group. The Good Schools Guide called the school "a serious player in the field of education." Wellington has sponsored the founding of a new independent state school in Wiltshire, The Wellington Academy, which opened in 2009. Wellington is in partnership with Wellington College International Tianjin, modelled on the buildings and ethos of the college, and which is due to open in August 2011. The college was designed by John Shaw Jr, who had also previously worked as an architect for Eton College.