A HISTORY OF SUFFOLK 



Among the masters on the removal may be 

 noted Mr. Montagu Williams, afterwards a most 

 successful Old Bailey barrister and police magis- 

 trate, and author of two volumes of racy remini- 

 scences. The name of the next head master, 

 the Rev. Hubert Ashton Holdcn, whose tenure 

 was actually a quarter of a century, was for 

 many years a household word to all boys in the 

 public schools of England, and is still to many 

 classical scholars; and since his death in 1896 

 has found a place in the Dictionary of National 

 Biography. He edited and wrote on many 

 classics, Plutarch's Lives and Cicero's Speeches 

 inter alia. But the two books which made him 

 famous were Folia Centuriae, a collection of 

 pieces from English prose authors for translation 

 into Latin or Greek prose; and, more especially, 

 Folia Silvulae, a similar cento of English poetry. 

 Many a boy who perhaps profited little by the 

 translation of the pieces into the dead languages 

 has imbibed a knowledge and love of English 

 classics, which he would never otherwise have 

 made acquaintance with, from finding them in 

 Holden's storehouse. Holden himself was a 

 product of King Edward's School, Birmingham, 

 in its palmy days, when its head-mastership 

 seemed a passport to a bishopric. At Cam- 

 bridge he won the Bell University Scholarship 

 in his first year, 1842, was senior classic and 

 a senior optime, scholar, and fellow of Trinity 

 College. 



The school was very successful under him. 

 In 1864' the Endowed Schools Inquiry Com- 

 missioners' Report showed 103 boys, of whom 58 

 were day-boys, 20 of them on the foundation 

 paying no fees, the rest paid £12 to ^18 a year 

 according to their position in the school. In 

 1867 there were 18 Old Ipswichians up at Cam- 

 bridge, of whom 6 held open scholarships, among 

 them the present Cambridge secretary of the 

 Oxford and Cambridge Schools Examinations 

 Board ; while the present bishop of Salisbury, John 

 Wordsworth, was there as a preparatory school 

 to Winchester. Though Dr. Holden — he was 

 LL.D. — was before all things a classical scholar, 

 and his pupils achieved great distinction in 

 classics, mathematics were also followed with 

 effect, and German and French were not neg- 

 lected. 



On 29 November, i88i,a new scheme under 

 the Endowed Schools Act became law, which 

 put the finances of the school on a better footing, 

 and was designed to put the whole secondary 

 education of the town on a scientific basis ; by 

 putting Christ's Hospital and the grammar school 

 under the same representative governing body, 

 and providing for 3 schools — the grammar school, 

 a middle school, and the girls' school. But it 

 assigned only five-twelfths of the income to the 

 grammar school, and four-twelfths to the middle 

 school, though the grammar school was at least 



' Sch. Inq. Rep. xiii, 1 94. 



twice as expensive to maintain. The usual 

 thing happened. The middle school was not 

 content to do its work in its own sphere, but 

 tried to trespass on that of the grammar school ; 

 and though it was expressly forbidden to be a 

 boarding school yet was allowed by the gover- 

 nors to become so. 



Dr. Holdcn retired in 1883, and died in 

 1896. His name has been commemorated by 

 the establishment of a Holden Library. Under 

 the Rev. F. H. Browne this school grew for a 

 time, but an unfortunate personal incident ended 

 in decline of the school and the suicide of 

 the head master. The Rev. Philip Edwin 

 Raynor, a scholar of Winchester and of New 

 College, who had been head master of St. Peter's 

 College, Adelaide, in Western Australia, suc- 

 ceeded in 1894. The school averaged about 

 120 under him. In the Daily Chronicle record 

 of open scholarships for 1 90 1 Ipswich stood very 

 high, having won 36 in the previous 15 years, 

 or 30 per cent, of the number of boys, and it 

 has had a good number of athletic distinctions at 

 the universities as well. 



After the passing of the Education Act, 1902, 

 there was much stir in Ipswich about the rela- 

 tions of the middle school and the grammar 

 school, which ended in two new schemes made 

 by the Board of Education, under which both 

 head masters are pensioned off. Mr. Raynor 

 has retired to a college living. 



By a scheme of 14 June, 1906, the middle 

 school and the girls' school have become the 

 Ipswich Municipal Secondary Schools under a 

 governing body of 13 — 10 of whom are to be 

 appointed by the town council, 2 by the muni- 

 cipal charity trustees, with educational experience 

 represented by one person appointed by Cam- 

 bridge University. A third of the income of the 

 endowment is given to those 2 schools, which 

 are to be mainly financed out of the rates, tuition 

 fees being £6 to £12 a year. As no less than 

 40 free scholarships, with — for 10 at least and 

 perhaps more — cash payments of £2 to £4. a 

 year in addition, are to be provided the rates 

 may have something to bear. 



The grammar school, under the name of 

 Ipswich School, is given two-thirds of the 

 endowment, which will amount to about j£8o<> 

 a year, when debts for building are discharged. 

 The governing body is to consist of 8 represen- 

 tatives of the town council and 4 municipal 

 charity trustees, tempered by one representative 

 of each of the three universities of Oxford, 

 Cambridge, and London. The tuition fees are 

 to be £12 to £18 a year. There are two- 

 leaving exhibitions, with a hope of more from 

 the town council if it should see fit. There are 

 10 Queen's Scholarships, so-called after Queen 

 Elizabeth, though, as she did not found or 

 pretend to found the school, nor give anything, 

 not even her name, to it, the title is somewhat 

 misplaced. 



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