London International College

It enrolled secondary-school students from a number of countries in a programme aimed at fostering internationalist sentiments in its pupils.

[1] The International Education Society was organized in 1863, primarily by Liberal politician and industrialist Richard Cobden, who hoped international education could help eliminate war and promote free trade (an idea that had been discussed by a number of like-minded individuals at the 1855 Paris Exposition).

[2] The College's buildings were completed in 1866, and it officially opened in 1867, with classicist Leonhard Schmitz as the first headmaster.

It engaged in a number of other educational experiments besides the focus on internationalism: it eliminated corporal punishment, and instituted an unusually science-focused curriculum, developed with noted scientists Thomas Henry Huxley and John Tyndall on its board of directors.

The school operated until 1889, when it was closed for unclear reasons, and the premises sold to Borough Road College.