SANDHURST  , a

town in the Wokingham parliamentary division of Berkshire, England, 9 M . N. of Aldershot . Pop . (1901) 2386 . Two miles south-east of the town, near the villages of Cambridge Town and York Town, and the railway stations of Blackwater and Camberley on the South-Eastern and Chatham and South-Western lines, is the Sandhurst Royal Military College . It was settled here in 1812, having been already removed by its founder, the duke of York, from High Wycombe, where it was opened in 1799, to Great Marlow in 1802 . It stands in beautiful grounds, which contain a large lake . Wellington College station on the South-Eastern branch line to Reading, near Sandhurst itself, serves Wellington College, one of the principal modern public schools of England, founded in memory 3 These were separated by Bonaparte (Comptes rendus, xlii. p . 88o) as a distinct genus, Pteroclurus, which later authors have justly seen no reason to adopt . of the great duke of Wellington, 4nd incorporated in 1853 . Its primary object was the education of the sons of deceased army officers . In the vicinity is Broadmoor Prison for criminal lunatics .