Elite schools losing influence

ALUMNI from elite boys’ public schools do not dominate the upper echelons of British society as much as they used to, analysis of 120 years of Who’s Who found.

Academics from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) said the influence the Clarendon schools – Charterhouse, Eton, Harrow, Merchant Taylor’s, Rugby, Shrewsbury, St Paul’s, Westminster and Winchester College – hold over the highest offices has “diminished significantly”. The research was published in the American Sociological Review.