Bluecoat (disambiguation)

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Bluecoat or Blue Coat can refer to many things:

[edit] Education

• Bluecoat, a style of school uniform used in some British schools.
• Charity schools can be known as Blue Coat Schools, in the United Kingdom.

Including:

• Christ's Hospital, Horsham, an independent boarding school founded in 1552. The first and oldest surviving Bluecoat school.
• Reading Blue Coat School, a secondary school founded in 1646.
• Old Swinford Hospital, at Stourbridge founded in 1667.
• Blue Coat School Dublin, an Irish school founded in 1669.
• St Mary's School, Banbury, a primary school founded as Bluecoat School in 1705.
• Nottingham Bluecoat School, a church school founded in 1706.
• Liverpool Blue Coat School, a church school founded in 1708.
• Coventry Blue Coat Church of England School, a comprehensive school founded in 1714.
• The Blue Coat School, Oldham, a school established in 1834.
• The Blue Coat School, Dudley, a school opened in 1869 and closed in 1989.
• Bishop of Hereford's Bluecoat School, a school founded in 1973.
• Pilton Bluecoat CofE Primary School, a junior school in Devon.

• A House at the The King's Hospital, Dublin.

[edit] Companies

• Blue Coat Systems, a proxy-server manufacturer previously known as CacheFlow.
• Bluecoat Press, a Liverpool-based publisher.

[edit] Buildings

• Blue School, Dublin which housed the Irish Houses of Parliament before 1729.
• Law Society of Ireland offices, in the former Blue Coat School buildings.
• Bluecoat Chambers, Liverpool will host the Liverpool Arts Centre from 2008.

[edit] Military

• Operation Bluecoat, a British offensive during World War II in 1944.