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He founded renowned British Public School Churcher's College . His will, dated 1722 , decreed that the College was to educate ''"10 or 12 local boys from Petersfield , of any age from 9 to 14, in the arts of writing, arithmetic, mathematics and navigation so they could be apprenticed to masters of ships sailing in the East Indies "''.