national dress, and the whole school attended a service to commemorate the school benefactors; such benefactors include Mathew Parker, the fist Archbishop of Canterbury of Elizabeth I. Office of Fair Trading investigation In 2005, the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) provisionally found that the school exchanged detailed information about prospective fee increases with approximately 50 other prominent UK independent schools, including Eton and Sevenoaks. The OFT stated that "regular and systematic exchange of confidential information as to intended fee increases was anti-competitive and resulted in parents being charged higher fees than would otherwise have been the case." Staffing Peter Roberts retired as Headmaster at the close of the Summer Term on Thursday, 7 July 2022. Elizabeth Worthington, Senior Deputy Head, is the interim head until September 2023 when Jude Lowson will become the first female Head in the history of the School Notable headmasters 1525–1560: John Twyne 1935–1962: Fred Shirley 1975–1986: Peter Pilkington, later Lord Pilkington of Oxenford Notable former pupils The Junior King's School, Canterbury The King's School has a feeder preparatory school, the Junior King's School (JKS), previously Milner Court Preparatory School. The school is a coeducational boarding and day establishment and currently has around 400 pupils aged 3 to 13. Whilst there are boarding facilities available, the majority are day pupils. JKS is now located at Milner Court in Sturry, having been originally based in the crypt of Canterbury Cathedral. The current site was donated by Lady Milner following the death of Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner in 1925. The buildings on site were opened by Rudyard Kipling in 1929, in his capacity as a close friend of Alfred Milner. Wilfrid Oldaker was headmaster from 1945 to 1956 and was the last head to occupy the manor house as the headmaster's residence. Further extensions include a sports hall (1999), a CDT block (1991) and a new music department (2016). The King's School Shenzhen International The King’s School planned to open its first overseas branch in the Nanshan district of Shenzhen, China in 2019. The new campus was intended to be launched in two separate phases. The Pre-Prep section for children aged 3 – 6 was planned to open in Autumn 2019, and the Main School, which will include the Junior and Senior sections for children aged 6–18, should open the following year in 2020. See also List of the oldest schools in the United Kingdom List of