SCHOOLS 



through the donor having inserted a clause that if the master did not read 

 the prayers the income was to be paid to someone else for doing it. 



By will of 1 1 August, 1740, John Stanbridge gave ^Tifo, to which 

 his brother Edward added £100, towards buying the master a house, but 

 the house — an inn in the Horse Market, with the sign of the Dog — 

 bought in 1768 during the headmastership of Henry Lee, LL.B., also 

 vicar of Wolphamcote, proving inconvenient, was sold in 1779, temp. 

 Rev. William Denny, and the proceeds, ^(^400, invested in consols. 



The present head master's house was bought with the proceeds of 

 this sum and additions of his own by the Rev. Thomas Saunders, 

 head master from 1823 to 1844. It is an old red-brick house with a fine 

 view over one of the prettiest parts of the county. To it have been 

 added spacious dormitories, changing-room, gymnasium, and fives court, 

 and all the requirements of modern boarding houses. 



In 1736 a native of Daventry, Dr. Edward Maynard, gave ^^200 

 to found a charity school to supply the three R's gratis. This, with 

 other charitable legacies, was laid out in 1745 in the purchase of land 

 at Cosford, in Warwickshire, adjoining that of Farrer's gift. By a 

 fortunate exchange, land at Woodford, in Northants, was acquired instead, 

 the coal under which proved the saving of the situation, by increasing the 

 endowment to >r6o a year. In 1871, however, the mayor had to WTite 

 to the Charity Commission to say that the school was too old-fashioned, 

 and had ceased to be attended by any pupils except one obstinate burgess 

 who insisted on sending his son to learn Latin free. Two years after- 

 wards it was closed. It was revived again under the Rev. C. F. Hutton, 

 of St. John's College, Cambridge, appointed in September, 1882. 

 Young, eager, and with private means, he got together by 1888 no less 

 than seventy-five boys, paying tuition fees of £^ in the lower, and ^8 

 in the upper school, forty-five being boarders paying ^(^45 a year. 

 There were nine boys in the sixth form going to the universities. A 

 new school had been built by subscription, and a former dissenting 

 chapel hired as an additional class-room. But in 1889 Mr. Hutton 

 went off to the more attractive field of Pocklington school, in Yorkshire, 

 where also his success was great. After an unsuccessful interval under 

 William Logan, the Rev. Harold W. Johnson, of Lincoln College, 

 Oxford, appointed in 1896, gathered a flock of some fifty boys. In 1904 

 he went to the Seychelles Islands, leaving the present master, Mr. A. F. 

 Cauldwell. Schemes are now in progress by the Board of Education 

 for uniting the old grammar school and the English school. Dr. Maynard's 

 foundation, under a representative governing body, when it is hoped 

 that this school will enjoy a renewed lease of life. 



Space will not permit more than a bare enumeration of the many 

 other free grammar schools of Northamptonshire founded between 1580 

 and 1670, to teach the classics, and even Hebrew, all of which have long 

 sunk into elementary schools or been converted into exhibition funds. 

 Burton Latimer, founded by Thomas Burbank and Margery his wife, in 



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