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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… offered the house to the capital burgesses for the Grammar School, but they had hopes of obtaining possession after … debate in 1824, when it was suggested that the Grammar School should purchase Dr. Whitsed's house (formerly …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Alexandra Road, in the premises formerly used by the Art School and earlier still by the infants of the British School. 37 A movement for a working men's club started in … the Wesleyan Methodist Reformers, 60 and later as an art school. The building still stands and is used by a …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 96 In 1820 the society maintained a flourishing Sunday school and also the General Baptist Academy. 97 Three years … Passage was purchased for a burial ground, and on it a school was built in 1836. This was used by the Sunday school and by the girls' British school during the week. 98 …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… schoolmaster, probably indicates the presence of a primary school. The continuous history of primary education in the town, however, does not begin until a century later. A school for boys was opened in 1707 and one for girls in 1710; … by private subscriptions. 70 In 1709 there were 50 boys at school, who had 'caps and bands &c. given them, to …
A History of the County of Sussex
… John Hart, instituted in 1731, was also master of Steyning school. 96 Incumbents later in the 18th century were often … other benefices after 1822, 98 and for a time kept a school for sons of noblemen in the rectory. 99 His successor, … Fagg was sending two of his sons to a dissenter's boarding school in Steyning in the 1660s, and provided shelter for a …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… SCHOOLS. In 1818 45 children attended a Sunday school and 3 day schools in Newton Harcourt, all un-endowed. 11 A day school was opened in 1826, where in 1833 9 children of each … at the expense of their parents. There was also a Sunday school in 1833, attended by 44 children, and supported by …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Independents, and Roman Catholics; also a national school supported partly by the rent of a house conditionally … amongst other benefactions, in 1719, left 100 in aid of a school; and C. Barnardiston bequeathed a similar amount to be …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Baptists have a place of worship; and there is a charitv school for girls with a small endowment. Withington … The children of the district may attend Hoghton old school; and the Wesleyans have two schools. In the township … the Society of Friends, and Wesleyans. The free grammar school, on Church Green, was established under an act of …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… geometric panels (Plates 13, 14, 16), are of the Corinian School. Room I was paved with coarse white stone tesserae. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… town. The clothier John Holloway (d. 1724), founder of a school for sons of journeyman weavers, 5 left money to build … to have been John Holloway's endowment of the Bluecoat school for journeymen weavers' sons in 1724, which included … their accounts to the rector, the master of the grammar school, and the bailiffs. More land was bought probably about …