Search
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… hall of study, seven class-rooms, a library, museum, room for philosophical apparatus, exhibition-room, music-room, drawing-room, recreation-hall, chambers for the president and directors, apartments for the … 13. 1.; net income, 546; patron, the Earl of Lonsdale. A school has been endowed by Margaret Hodgson, with houses and …
A History of the County of Somerset
… 29 In 1652 a woman was licensed to continue her limekiln for three years. 30 In 1842 there was a quarry near … and author Sir Henry Newbolt (1862-1938) lived in the Old School House in Aisholt from c. 1927 until his death. 38 O.S. …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Education EDUCATION. The rector was licensed to keep a school in the parish in 1662. 90 There was no school in 1819 … the Sunday school. 93 In 1859 there was a small day school for girls. 94 From 1874 children from Aisholt attended the …
A Dictionary of London
… Albans, and that the Abbot in 1077 exchanged the advowson for that of another church with the Abbot of Westminster … (1.236). He gives Matthew Paris as his authority for the statement. If this statement is correct, the … Erected after the removal of Old Bethlem Hospital in 1814 for the members of a Scotch congregation. Removed for the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… was erected at the close of the eighth century (in 793) for 100 Benedictine monks. About the middle of the fifth … Independents, Wesleyans, and Unitarians. The Free Grammar school was erected in or about the year 1569, by the mayor … built by the late Leveson Vernon, Esq. There is a public subscription library, situated on the Head; a neat and …
Survey of London
… Melbourne House built by Sir William Chambers in 17714 for the first Lord Melbourne. Behind the mansion two ranges … and who at that time was constructing the Duke of York's School in Chelsea. Holland and Copland had evidently proposed … 'to procure Subscribers to the House and premises as a Subscription House or Hotel to the amount of 50,000 or …
Survey of London
… inadequate to the high and difficult aim of the designer. (For this chapter see the Frontispiece and Plates 40, 41, 42, … 14 January 1862 and a committee was appointed to raise a subscription for building a memorial to a design to be … by Alexander 'Greek' Thomson is or was in the Glasgow School of Art.57 Donaldson's friend, J. I. Hittorf, also …
Survey of London
… very limited, but at an early date he made measured pleas for the power of influence. 225 This was only in the spirit … memorial generally required 'the grandest effort that our school of sculpture has ever been called upon to put forth' … Research under Doctor John Percy had begun at the Royal School of Mines, 517 and in 1873, with the Office of Works' …
A History of the County of Sussex
… the rector of Pyecombe, possibly as trustees, presented for a turn. 65 From 1398, however, the advowson again … and his son and heir Henry in 1550. The bishop presented for a turn in 1525, and Henry Fowle in 1578. From 1593 or … 12-13 a. around it. In 1635 the land was leased, 80 and for c. 60 years up to 1724 the house was occupied by some …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Albourne Education EDUCATION. There was a day school in 1808. 22 In 1819 it was attended by 22 children and … were two day schools in 1835, with a total of 62 boys and girls. 24 A National school was built in 1844 in the centre of the parish 300 yd. …