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keen interest that was to become hereditary in his family : 

 he had an able colleague in John Hustler. The purchase 

 was explained and discussed ; objections were met ; and 

 the concern solidly weighed and approved. Then 

 " Friends seemed to vie with one another," writes Fother- 

 gill, " in their generous efforts." A large sum was at 

 once raised, partly in the form of donations, and partly 

 in " annuities " being sums subscribed subject to 5 per 

 cent interest during the lifetime of the giver and sometimes 

 of one or more relatives. In the course of the next 

 twelve years a total of some 12,500 was subscribed, 

 besides 4500 subject to annuities. Fothergill and David 

 Barclay gave 300 each, and 200 annuities. Fothergill 

 bequeathed in addition 100 per annum for a period of 

 five years, and 50 per annum in perpetuity, an income 

 still enjoyed by the school. 1 



1 The following sums were given by other Friends : 200 annuities : 

 Thomas Broadbank of Tottenham, George Croker Fox of Falmouth, Foster 

 Reynolds of Mitcham. 200 donations and 100 annuities : John Eliot and 

 James Vaston of London, also Brown, Collinson and Tritton (two annuities). 

 200 donations : Smith, Wright and Gray of London, Thomas Clark of 

 Plymouth Dock, and Richard Reynolds of Shropshire. 100 donations and 

 100 annuities : Abraham Gray, Samuel Hoare, Daniel Mildred, Henry Sterry 

 and Isaac Walker, all of London ; John Gurney, sen., of Norwich. 100 

 donations : Mark Beaufoy, Joseph Hooper, Hannah Harman, John Masterman, 

 Edward Shewell and Abjohn Taylor, of London ; Anna Barnard of Surrey, 

 Hester Donne of Bristol, Sarah Darby of Shropshire, " A Friend," Samuel 

 Galton, jun., of Birmingham, Edmund Gurney and Richard Gurney of Norwich, 

 and Henry Gray of Hunts. 100 annuities : Richard Chester, John Chorley 

 (FothergilPs nephew), Thomas Corbyn, Samuel Hoare, jun., Jonathan Hoare, 

 and Thomas Hoare, all of London ; John Allis of Hertford, Thomas Bradley 

 of Southwark, Richard Brewster of Bury, Deborah Coxhead, Samuel Darby 

 of Coalbrook Dale, Gabriel Goldney of Clifton, William Hamilton, Thomas 

 Henderson of Scarborough, Richard Low of Dover, John Massey of Spalding, 

 Hannah Pritchard of Leominster, John Routh of Manchester, Samuel Scott 

 of Hertford, John Stephenson of Stockton, William Thurnham of York, 

 Thomas Tritton of Battersea, and George Wakefield of North Shields. 



Other names of liberal contributors were : Bevan, Bland, Bush, Hagen, 

 Kaye, Lister, Marshman, Neal, Neatby, Plumsted, Pryor and Weston, all of 

 London ; Buttery of Bainton, Cockfields of Barking and Stockton, Dickinsons 

 of Beverley and Chippenham, Beck, Harford and Peters of Bristol, Rickman 

 of Chichester, Lindley of Darlington, Payton of Dudley, Backhouse of Durham, 

 Dicker and Sanders of Exeter, Kendal of Giggleswick, Leach of Hants, Dykes 

 of Ipswich, Bradford and Dillworth of Lancaster, Whitelock of Leeds, Wadkins 

 of Manchester, Marriott of Mansfield, Roper of Norwich, Leaver of Nottingham, 

 Boulter of Ramsey, Morris of Reading, Benson of Stang End, Inman of Wales, 

 Portsmouth of Whitchurch, Holdship of Worcester, Barlow and Birkbeck of 

 Yorks, Alexander, Arthington, Bateman, Chapman, Collier, etc. Reports of 

 Ackworth School, 1780-1791. The sums named would be equivalent in value 

 to perhaps double these amounts to-day. 



