The Liverpool Blue Coat School was founded in 1708 by Mr Bryan Blundell and Rev. Robert Styth as "a school for teaching poor children to read, write and cast accounts". Blundell was a leading Liverpool shipowner and slave trader.
The original school expanded rapidly and a new building, the present Bluecoat Arts Centre opened in 1718.
The earliest charitable foundation is the BlueCoat hospital, established in 1708, for orphans and fatherless children born within the borough.
In 1826 the corporation founded two elementary schools, one of which, the North Corporation school, was erected in part substitution for the grammar school founded by John Crosse, rector of St Nicholas Fleshshambles, London, a native of Liverpool, in 1515, and carried on by the Corporation until 1815.
Liverpool University, as University College, received its charter of incorporation in 1881, and in 1884 was admitted as a college of the Victoria University.
Liverpool Tennis Development Programme based at Wavertree Tennis Centre is one of the largest in the UK Liverpool is also home to the Red Triangle Karate Club, which provided many of the 1990 squad that won the World Shotokan Championships in Sunderland.
In 2001, Liverpool Airport, near Speke in the south of the city, was renamed Liverpool John Lennon Airport, in honour of the late Beatle John Lennon.
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