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LONDON: If you are looking for virtually free education at one of Britain's top secondary schools you may be in luck. So, what's the catch? You have to be a 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 pounds with one stipulation: that the money go to a student named Peyton. — AP

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