Wrekin College is a private co-educational boarding and day school located in Wellington, Shropshire, England.

(Joseph Edward) Cranage, providing originally for the education of boys only, being described in 1891 as:one of the most widely known and popular educational establishments for gentlemen's sons in the Midlands[4]In founding the school, Cranage was inspired by the example of Thomas Arnold at Rugby School,[5] he was aged just nineteen years at the time but had already completed an MA and PhD.

[9] Pupils of the school included Crown Princes of India,[10] and David Morrieson Panton.

The semi-autobiographical account of a “nervous and skinny boy with thick fair hair” who hated boarding school so much he developed a near fatal bout of constipation, the tale was largely based on the writer’s own experiences at The Old Hall.

[13] The Old Hall appointed Ms Anna Karacan as headteacher in 2022, the first woman to hold the role in 188 years of the school to that point.

[clarification needed] Wrekin college has been granted a coat of arms.

[clarification needed] Queen Elizabeth II visited Wrekin on Friday 17 March 1967, having opened Shire Hall in Shrewsbury earlier that day.

1952-71), greeted the Queen, and in his study presented a specially bound copy of B.C.W Johnson’s A Brief History of Wrekin College, whilst Head of School, David Franklin (W. 1961-67) was given the honour of presenting a cricket bat for her sons[citation needed].