SCHOOLS 



Council under the Endowed Schools Acts on 

 28 June 1875. This scheme established a 

 governing body of seventeen persons, the chair- 

 man of the Local Board when constituted, now 

 the mayor of the borough, ex officio, and the 

 chairmen of the School Board of Mansfield, 

 which never came into being, and of Sutton in 

 Ashfield ; with eight representatives of the 10 

 householders who then constituted the Parlia- 

 mentary electors of the town, and six co-optatives, 

 to whom by an amending scheme of 27 Novem- 

 ber 1896 two representatives of the Nottingham- 

 shire County Council were added. 



This body was directed to provide and main- 

 tain two grammar schools, one for boys and one 

 for girls. 



The former was to be a school for 150 boys, 

 and 4,000 was the sum mentioned in the scheme 

 as necessary for new buildings. In point of fact 

 the site and buildings, in a fine position about a 

 mile from the centre of the town on high ground 

 off the Chesterfield Road, cost over 10,000, the 

 architects being Messrs. Giles & Gough of Lon- 

 don. They are a fine pile in the Tudor style, 

 with a large playground and cricket ground, 

 and a ' hostel ' for 30 boarders. Chemical and 

 physical laboratories and lecture rooms and work- 

 shops have been added since. The school was 

 opened under the Rev. Edwin Johnson, a scholar 

 of Trinity College, Cambridge, appointed in 1878. 

 In the years 1885 to 1889 the boys numbered 

 about 75. Mr. Johnson resigned in 1902. 



The school received a very useful augmenta- 

 tion in Faith Clerkson's Mansfield Exhibitions 

 by a scheme under the Endowed Schools Acts, 

 which received the royal approval on 26 Septem- 

 ber 1901. This scheme converted into exhibi- 

 tions a ' charity school ' which had been endowed 

 with 2,000 by bequest under a codicil to the 

 will of Faith Clerkson, dated 29 October 1725. 



About 1731 a site for the school of over 

 2 acres was purchased for 160, and a school- 

 house was erected in 1731 for 450 15*. ^d. 

 The surplus funds were invested in property at 

 Everton, Harwell, and Scaftworth. The man- 

 agement of the trust was disputed in a suit in 

 Chancery by the Attorney-General on the motion 

 of one of the senior ' assistants of the Free Grammar 

 School,' but it was justified by a Master's and 

 others' report, and by a decree of i July 1743." 



In 1833 in this school 20 boys and 20 girls of 

 Mansfield and 1 5 boys and 1 5 girls of Mansfield 

 Woodhouse were given an elementary educa- 

 tion, taught spinning, knitting, and sewing. In 

 1849 ' l became an ordinary elementary girls' 

 school, while in 1879 it had room for 184 girls 

 and infants, and, in fact, had 114. In view of 

 the ample provision made out of the rates for ele- 

 mentary education, the school was ordered to be 

 sold ; and the Mansfield half of the endowment, 

 amounting to about 60 a year, was directed to 



11 Land. Rev. Rec. class v, bdle. no. 32. 



be applied in establishing Clerkson Junior Exhi- 

 bitions of 20 a year tenable at the grammar 

 schools or any place of education higher than 

 elementary, and one Clerkson Senior Exhibition 

 of 50 a year to take a junior exhibitioner on 

 to the university. This scheme was further 

 amended by a scheme made by the Board of 

 Education under the Charitable Trusts Acts on 

 19 December 1903, dealing with an income of 

 447, the school in Mansfield having been sold 

 for 4,020, and other sales of land at building 

 prices effected. It provided for Clerkson Senior 

 Exhibitions of 30 to 60 a year to places of 

 higher education, on which not less than 150 

 nor more than 200 a year might be spent ; and 

 assigned the residue for Clerkson Junior Exhi- 

 bitions, half for children of Mansfield, and half 

 for children of Mansfield Woodhouse; 25 a 

 year was also to be given to the school of art. 



The governing body of the grammar school 

 was reconstituted by an amending scheme made 

 by the Board of Education on 22 September 1904 

 in accordance with modern conditions. It con- 

 sists of the mayor and eight governors appointed 

 by the town council of Mansfield, three by the 

 Nottinghamshire County Council, one each by the 

 urban district councils of Mansfield Woodhouse 

 and Sutton in Ashfield, one each by Nottingham 

 University College and Cambridge University, 

 and three co-optatives. The income from en- 

 dowment shown in the scheme is 1,455 I 7 S - a 

 year. 



The present head master, Mr. Arthur Jagger, 

 was appointed in September 1902. Educated at 

 Shrewsbury School, where he won a school ex- 

 hibition, he became an open scholar of Pembroke 

 College, Cambridge, and was placed in the first 

 class in the Classical Tripos in 1890, and rowed 

 stroke of one of the university trial eights in 

 1891. After being an assistant master at the 

 King's School, Ely, and Victoria College, Jersey, 

 he was three years at Hymer's College, Hull, 

 whence he came to Mansfield. He has written 

 school books, editing portions of Xenophon, Livy, 

 and Plautus for school use. Under him what 

 seemed to be a decaying industry has become a 

 prosperous concern. In 1 909 there were 117 boys 

 in the school, at tuition fees of 6 to 9 guineas 

 a year, of whom 28 were boarders in the school- 

 house, under a staff of four assistant masters who 

 are university graduates, and four others, includ- 

 ing teachers of music and art. Never, for 200 

 years at least, has the school been so flourishing 

 as it is now, under, so far as is known, its first 

 lay head master. 



BRUNTS' TECHNICAL SCHOOL, 

 MANSFIELD 



Brunts' Technical School is the first attempt 

 among endowed schools at a real technological 

 school, as distinct from a mere science and art 



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