A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



suit in Chancery, the taxed costs of which amounted to no less than 

 35,000, the corporation found itself in 1859 in possession of 42,425 

 and a scheme of the Court for the establishment of a Hartley Institution. 

 On 15 October, 1862, the institution, erected on the site of the founder's 

 house, augmented by Queen's College, Oxford, was opened. It included 

 a museum, library, chemical and physical laboratories, lecture theatre and 

 so forth. For some time it was a kind of glorified Mechanics' Institute, 

 chiefly useful for its evening classes, its day classes being little more than 

 a secondary day school, a substitute for a modern side at the Grammar 

 School, specially attractive to youths who wished at an early age to 

 escape the restraints of school. Its most successful students were sent as 

 from a school with scholarships to the Universities of Oxford and Cam- 

 bridge, while others took London degrees. Under the present principal, 

 S. W. Richardson, D.Sc., London, the institution has been transformed. 

 By a certificate of the Board of Education, under the Charitable Trustees 

 Incorporation Act of 1872, made on 20 November, 1902, the trustees 

 were incorporated as ' Hartley University College at Southampton 

 (founded 1850, registered 1902).' By a scheme of the Board of Educa- 

 tion made under the Charitable Trusts Acts, 1853 to J ^94 on 2 3 Sep- 

 tember, 1902, the objects of the college are declared to be 'the 

 provision of a liberal education, and such instruction as may enable 

 residents in the county borough of Southampton, and in the adminis- 

 trative counties of Southampton, the Isle of Wight, Dorset and Wilts, 

 and the county boroughs of Portsmouth and Bournemouth, and others 

 to qualify for degrees at any universities in the United Kingdom ; 

 the giving of such legal, medical, technical or other instruction as 

 may be of service in professional, commercial or industrial life ; the 

 spread of higher education . . . and generally the promotion and 

 increase of knowledge.' This wide programme is to be carried out 

 under a president, the first president being Arthur Charles, Duke of 

 Wellington, and a court of governors and a council widely representative 

 of all the local authorities and educational institutions in Wessex, the old 

 universities and the professional associations, such as the General Medical 

 Council. But like all higher educational institutions it needs funds, its 

 endowment other than buildings amounting only to 648 IQJ. 4^. a 

 year. 



SECONDARY EDUCATION 



The public provision for secondary education in the county is 

 represented by the following schools, arranged in order of date of founda- 

 tion : 



386 



