As well as houses named after the founder of the school John Carpenter and former headmasters Edwin Abbott and Mortimer, they include houses named after important Old Citizens or school benefactors including Beaufoy, a philanthropist who donated the sum of £10,000 (about £661,189.38 in 2016) in the eighteenth century, Hale who played a significant role in the school's founding and Seeley, a famous historian who attended the school.