LONDON (AP) - If you're looking for a virtually free education at one of Britain's top secondary schools you may be in luck. So, what's the catch?

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You have to be named Peyton.

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.

The successful applicant must have a surname spelled Peyton, prove it with a birth certificate, and not have a hyphenated late name, said Brighton College Headmaster Richard Cairns

Staff at the 1,200-student preparatory school in East Sussex, southeast England, have combed British telephone books and contacted all 600 Peytons in Britain in an attempt to find a student interested in the scholarship, but to no avail.

Now, school officials are looking abroad in an attempt to find a Peyton, searching for Peytons online and even resorting to contacting a pro athlete, Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning, in the United States for any available leads.

"It seems mad having all of this money in the bank for a student and not having anyone to take the spot," Cairns said.