A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



one years of age, but with an extension of not more 

 than three years in the discretion of the trustees. The 

 benefits may also include residence and maintenancy 

 in London to attend the Jews' College and University 

 College ; each student to receive a yearly stipend of 

 from 20 to 30. The endowment fund is esti- 

 mated to be about 20,000. The institution was 

 regulated by a scheme of the Court of Chancery, 

 dated 30 May, 1873 (amended in 1876), but its 

 operation has recently been suspended. 



By will of Miss Emily Catherine Scale, proved in 

 1884, a sum of 199 los. consols (with the official 

 trustees) was bequeathed upon trust that the dividends 

 be distributed among poor persons of the parish of 

 All Saints on St. Thomas's Day. 



The Albert Cottages Institution, situated in Canal 

 Walk, Fratton, was founded in 1866 by members of 

 the registered friendly societies of Portsmouth, and 

 was discontinued in 1891. It was purchased by Sir 

 John Baker, knt., who by deed dated 8 March, 1897, 

 conveyed the property to trustees for the benefit of 

 necessitous members of registered friendly societies of 

 the borough, their wives and children. The inmates 

 receive the dividends on 2 1 o os. 8</. consols (with 

 the official trustees) left by will of Miss Emily 

 Catherine Scale above mentioned. 



The following charities relate to Southsea : 



The poor of Southsea are entitled to share in the 

 charity of John Bass Eltham (see above). 



The School and Home for the Blind, St. Edward's 

 Road, was established in 1 864 by Miss I. Henn- 

 Gennys for the purpose of educating and giving 

 industrial instruction to the blind of both sexes. By 

 an indenture dated 1 1 March, 1867, William Thorn- 

 gate, among other annual payments to various charit- 

 able institutions, provided that 5 a year should be 

 paid to this institution. By an order of the Charity 

 Commissioners made under the Board of Education 



Act, 1899, it was provided that a sum of 200 consols 

 should be set aside in the books of the official trustees 

 under the title of the Educational Foundation of 

 William Thorngate in connexion with this insti- 

 tution. 



By will proved 24 November, 1894, William 

 Pelham Winter left 350 to be invested and income 

 applied by vicar and churchwardens of St. Luke, 

 Southsea, in such manner as they should think most 

 advisable for the education at the Portsmouth Gram- 

 mar School of one or more boys who should have 

 attended the day school in connexion with the 

 church. The legacy was invested in the purchase 

 of 326 14;. 5<z'. India 3 per cent, stock. 



William Pelham Winter likewise bequeathed 

 221 \s. <)d. consols, dividends to be applied in 

 support of a soup kitchen. The two sums of stock 

 are held by the official trustees. 



William James Patterson, by will proved 1884, left 

 jl,ooo to be invested and income distributed to the 

 poor of the parish of St. Paul, Southsea. The legacy 

 was invested in 902 5/. \d. consols which is held by 

 the official trustees. The dividends, amounting to 

 22 i is., are applied by the vicar and churchwardens 

 in giving tickets for groceries and coals and clothing. 



There are more than forty elementary schools with- 

 in the borough limits, the oldest foundation being 

 that of the Portsea Beneficial Society's School, estab- 

 lished under a deed of I754. 685 They include also 

 the Royal Marine Artillery School, opened in 1872, 

 and the Royal Seamen and Marines Orphan School, 

 built in i874. 686 



The Portsmouth Grammar School was founded by 

 Dr. William Smith, who endowed it with land by his 

 will proved in I733. 687 



In Highbury Street stands the house of John 

 Pounds, a local cobbler, who held a ragged school 

 there. 



THE LIBERTY OF ALVERSTOKE WITH GOSPORT 



Alverstoke (Alwarestoch and Halwarestoke, xi to 

 xiii cent.; Alvardestoke, xiv cent.; Aillewardstoke, 

 xv cent.; Alverstoke, xvi cent.). 



The liberty of ALVERSTOKE, including GOS- 

 PORT, is bounded on the east by the waters of 

 Portsmouth Harbour, and on the south by Spithead. 

 In the south-east of the district, between the inlets 

 called Forton Lake and Haslar Lake, stands the 

 populous town of Gosport, from which the lines of 

 houses extend northward along the Fareham Road 

 and westward to Alverstoke. To the north are 

 the hamlets of Bridgemary, Elson, Hardway, and 

 Brockhurst, and to -the east Forton, now rapidly 

 becoming indistinguishable from Gosport itself. The 

 land lies low, and where not built over is well-wooded 

 and picturesque, especially on the south-west towards 

 Stokes Bay. The South Western Railway line from 

 Fareham runs through the parishes to Gosport, with 

 two branches, one to Stokes Bay, and the other on 

 the western boundary to Privett, and along the coast 

 to Lee-on-Solent. In the extreme south angle of the 

 parish is Gilkicker Point with its fort, and close to it 

 on the east is Fort Monkton. Haslar Hospital lies 



further to the north, close to the mouth of Portsmouth 

 Harbour, where Blockhouse Fort defends the entrance, 

 and the chain which in former days closed the 

 passage yet lies, it is said, in the mud at the bottom 

 of the channel. Inland, and in the west of the 

 parish are Forts Gomer and Grange, and Brown 

 Down Battery ; and Fort Rowner is partly in the 

 parish. From the shore of Stokes Bay Henry II crossed 

 to France on more than one occasion. East of the 

 village of Alverstoke is Bay House, built in 1838, 

 and now the residence of Mr. Francis Sloane-Stanley. 

 Haslar Hospital dates from the reign of George II, 

 and though of no particular architectural merit, is a 

 good building of its kind, set round a courtyard, with 

 open colonnades and a chapel. It takes its name from 

 a farmhouse once on the site. There is a ferry from 

 Portsmouth to the end of the High Street of Gosport, 

 a floating bridge capable of taking great weights 

 running every ten minutes to and fro, and the town 

 is intersected with electric tramways. The buildings 

 are in no way remarkable ; in High Street, which is 

 thj principal road, is a market hall built in 1812, 

 and other public buildings are the free public library, 



* y.C.H. Hants, ii, 402. 



686 Ibid. 403. 

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Ibid. 387 and 391. 



