[2] Founded in 1598 by Sir Henry Lee, Champion of Queen Elizabeth I, Aylesbury Grammar School celebrated 100 years on its current site in Walton Road in 2007.

In 1714, Henry Phillips left a sum of £5,000 for the purchase of lands of inheritance for the enlargement and further provision for the Free School in Aylesbury.

[4] The money left was to be used to admit a total of 120 boys to be taught gratis, with the school building to be furnished with books, pens, ink and paper.

The guest of honour at the opening ceremony was Lord Rothschild who had offered the land for purchase to Buckinghamshire County Council to build the school.

As a condition of a grant from the Council to assist in constructing the new buildings both boys and girls were admitted to the new school.

Lehec issued a formal apology, though in his analysis 'at no time was there an undertone of any act being of a derogatory or racist nature'.

The school also takes students from outside the catchment area or out-of-county locations such as Thame and Milton Keynes, if spaces remain after all qualified in-catchment candidates have taken up their places.

This site was built and opened in 1907, replacing an earlier building in St. Mary's Square in the town centre, which now forms part of the Buckinghamshire Museum.