A HISTORY OF SUFFOLK 



incorporated it with the grammar school, and 

 settled the apprenticeship part at the proper 

 and original sum of not more than ^30 a 

 year, establishing 4 scholarships in the school 

 of 10 each for Royalists, and a Sudbury 

 Exhibition tenable at Oxford or Cambridge 

 or other place of higher education of 60 

 a year. 



The promise of new buildings drew a large 

 field to compete for the vacant mastership when 

 Mr. Charles Sankey, late scholar of Queen's 

 College, Oxford, and assistant master in Marl- 

 borough College, was appointed. He found 

 some 45 boys in the school ; 9 of them were 

 boarders, of whom 3 left at the end of term. 

 The head of the school was G. L. King, scholar 

 of Clare College, and now bishop of Madagascar. 

 No changes of note were introduced by the new- 

 comer, but the annual speech-day was put at the 

 end of the summer term, and the printing of the 

 ' Prolusiones ' or Prize Exercises at the cost of 

 the parents of the prize-winners was stopped. 

 All the scholars, both ' royalists ' and ' foreigners,' 

 were brought into the seats allotted to the school 

 in St. James's Church : and the play, at the end 

 of the winter term, was henceforth performed 

 in the schoolroom, and not, as before, at the 

 Athenaeum. 



Meanwhile the governors found considerable 

 difficulty in deciding on a site for new buildings. 

 In the end, the vinefields of the old abbey won 

 the day. Generous terms were granted by the 

 Marquis of Bristol, the comptroller of the 

 governors and owner of the site ; the difficulty 

 of approach was solved by the formation of a 

 new road leading out of Eastgate and the con- 

 cession of a right of way to the scholars through 

 the abbey grounds. The eminent ecclesiastical 

 architect, Mr., afterwards Sir Arthur, Blomfield, 

 produced a red brick pile in the Elizabethan 

 style of imposing aspect. Its internal arrange- 

 ments with stone staircases and narrow passages 

 are more suited to a monastery than a school ; 

 but the dormitories are light and airy. The 

 mahogany fittings of the governors' room and 

 master's study, and a board painted with the 

 royal arms and the line adapted from Lucretius, 

 Haec patrio princeps donavit nomine regem (con- 

 taining as we have seen a historical untruth, since 

 Bury was far from being the first school to 

 give King Edward the name of father), were 

 almost the only part of the old buildings 

 transferred, though long desks scored with 

 engineering devices of old boys recall the old 

 days before science was brought to bear on 

 school buildings and school furniture. 



Half-way through the spring term of 1883 an 

 outbreak of scarlet fever caused the school to 

 be broken up. The old buildings were at once 

 abandoned. After a slight extension of the 

 Easter holidays the summer term began in the 

 new school, with about 70 boys, 30 of whom 

 were boarders. 



The numbers in the school had increased slowly ; 

 but they never quite rose to 80 ; nor were more 

 than 37 of the 40 beds in the head master's house 

 ever filled. A large proportion of the boarders 

 (i.e. 14 out of 34 in October, 1886 ; II out of 

 25 in October, 1888) were the sons of clergy- 

 men. Though only one first class was obtained 

 during Mr. Sankey's head mastership, viz. by H. 

 Wing of Trinity, Cambridge, in the Classical 

 Tripos, yet other distinctions, second classes, ad- 

 missions to Sandhurst, &c., were common ; and 

 the school was vigorous both in work and 

 games. 



In July, 1890, Mr. Sankey resigned his head 

 mastership, and left in December to become an 

 assistant master in Harrow School. His successor 

 was Mr. J. H. F. Peile, assistant master in Sher- 

 borne School, and late scholar of Corpus Christi 

 College, Oxford. After three years he resigned, 

 and is now Fellow of University College, Ox- 

 ford, and a select preacher. During his time 

 the gymnasium and cricket pavilion were built. 

 The present head master, the Rev. Arthur Wright 

 Callis, M.A. Cantab., was head master of Wy- 

 mondham School, Norfolk, and was appointed 

 in 1894. He has seen added to the school a 

 chemical laboratory ; a carpenter's shop with 

 lathe room ; a ' tuck ' shop ; a sanatorium ; an 

 Eton fives court and the restoration of the 

 Rugby fives court ; and a cadet corps, of which- 

 the head master is captain, attached to the 

 2nd V.B. Suffolk Regiment. He has adorned 

 the school with a gallery of the portraits of 

 over sixty distinguished old Burians. As a 

 Jubilee memorial, in 1897 a bust of the re- 

 spected founder, Edward VI, was unveiled by 

 the marchioness of Bristol. It already looks like 

 an antique owing to the perishable nature of the 

 stone of which it is made. A South African 

 War memorial, unveiled by Brigadier-General 

 Alderson, son of the old Burian, Baron Alderson, 

 records the contribution of 6 old boys to the 

 death roll of that regrettable episode. He has 

 revived the school magazine, The Burian, while 

 the opening of a preparatory department in the 

 school hall gives promise of a large contingent of 

 youthful scholars. On the appointment of the 

 present head master there were 27 boys in the 

 school ; this number was quickly doubled, and 

 an average of 50 to 60 has been steadily main- 

 tained. Within the last ten years the following 

 among other distinctions have been gained : 

 1 7 scholarships or exhibitions at the universities ; 

 3 first classes and 7 second classes in the Cam- 

 bridge triposes ; a first in 'Greats' and a second in 

 moderations at Oxford, and passes into Sand- 

 hurst, Cooper's Hill, and the Royal Naval 

 College. 



The immediate needs of the school are more 

 endowment and more just appreciation and gene- 

 rous assistance and support from the Suffolk County 

 Council to this facile princeps of the schools of 

 the county in the past. 



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