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Jersey's longest established and most influential school, Victoria College, opened in 1852, six years after the Royal Visit of Queen Victoria, after whom it is named. Today it is a fee-paying school, subsidised by Jersey taxpayers and a member of the Headmasters' Conference (public school). The school should have been founded a long time before it eventually opened if the States had acted in accordance with the wishes of 16th Century benefactor Laurens Baudains, who put up money for the establishment of a school in St Helier. Eventually the school fulfilled the banefactor's intentions by providing a succession of university students who would return to the island on completion of their education and play vital roles in its administration.