[f. as prec. + -ER1.] One who is ‘on the foundation’ of an endowed school or college.
1839. Arnold, Let., in Stanley, Life & Corr. (1844), II. ix. 133. Lord Langdale did not understand the difference which I had always made between Non-foundationers and Foundationers, as I have indeed always advised people not to send their sons as boarders under twelve, but have never applied the same advice to Foundationers living under their parents’ roof.
1876. Fox Bourne, Locke, I. i. 17. Queen Elizabeth had reorganized it under a new charter, which in addition to the forty foundationers, or king’s scholars, provided for the education of eighty other boys.
