LONDON – If you’re looking for a virtually free education at one of Britain’s top secondary schools you may be in luck – but you have to be named Peyton.
One of Britain’s top private secondary schools, Brighton College, is looking for a boy or girl between the ages of 13 and 18 with the last name of Peyton because a scholarship funded through an endowment by a former student dictates that the school award the money to a namesake.
Derek Wakehurst Peyton, a former Brighton College student who died in 2002, left the school hundreds of thousands of dollars with one stipulation – that the money go to a student with the same last name.
The successful applicant must have a surname spelled Peyton, prove it with a birth certificate, and not have a hyphenated last name, said Brighton College Headmaster Richard Cairns
Staff at the 1,200-student preparatory school in East Sussex, England, have combed British telephone books and contacted all 600 Peytons in England in an attempt to find a student interested in the scholarship, to no avail.
Now, school officials are looking abroad, searching for Peytons online and resorting to contacting Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning for any U.S.
Associated Press
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