A HISTORY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE 



gradually advanced till in 1903 they reached 227, and completely outgrew 

 their housing. So in that year the school was temporarily transferred to 

 Bearland House, formerly the town house of the earls of Berkeley, in Berkeley 

 Street. 



Meanwhile science and art schools had been set up by a committee by 

 deed of i November, 1871, and in 1896 these were transferred to the cor- 

 poration of Gloucester and carried on as the Municipal Technical School. 

 Originally only evening and then day classes, after 1896 they became also an 

 organized day school, which competed seriously with Sir Thomas Rich's 

 School. 



After the corporation, under the Education Act, 1902, became the 

 local education authority for secondary education, a movement began 

 which resulted in a new scheme under the Charitable Trusts Acts, sealed by 

 the Board of Education on 13 February, 1906. Under this scheme all these 

 schools were consolidated under one body of 2 1 governors ; 3 appointed by 

 the Gloucestershire County Council, 15 by the Gloucester City Council, and 

 3 co-optatives. The head masters of the Crypt School and of Sir Thomas 

 Rich's School were pensioned off. The College School having then sunk 

 into little more than a choristers' school, was treated as a quantite negligeable. 

 The Crypt School is now to charge tuition fees of 8 to 18 a year as the 

 first-grade school of the city, preparing for the universities, professions, and 

 trades. Sir Thomas Rich's School is to be a second-grade school at fees not 

 exceeding 12 a year, for boys up to seventeen years of age. The Technical 

 School is to serve for a lower-grade school, with some attempt at manual and 

 handicraft instruction, besides maintaining evening classes for artisans and the 

 like, and day classes in science and art for elder pupils of all classes. 



The girls' school is now to be called the High School, and to charge 

 tuition fees of not less than 6 nor more than 15, and is to be the Upper 

 Girls' School for the city. 



Mr. Joseph Edward Barton became head master of the Crypt School in 

 September, 1906. He was an old Crypt School boy, who went to Pembroke 

 College, Oxford, with a Townsend Exhibition in 1894, and won a first class 

 in classics in moderations in 1896, the Newdigate Prize Poem in 1897, and 

 a first class in classics in the Final School in i f 



THE TOWNSEND SCHOLARSHIPS 



George Townsend, of Lincoln's Inn, by will, 14 December, 1682, gave 

 Little Aston farm and tithes in Gloucestershire to the master, fellows, and 

 scholars of Pembroke College, Oxford, in trust for 8 scholars, one to be chosen 

 by the mayor and six of the senior aldermen of the city of Gloucester, and the 

 chief master of the chief school thereof out of the scholars of the same 

 school ; another out of the scholars of Cheltenham School, in which he was 

 a scholar ; another out of Campden School, and a fourth out of Northleach 

 School the 3 last-named to be chosen by the chief schoolmaster, ministers, 

 and bailiffs, or other chief officers of the same three towns, and in equality 

 of votes the schoolmaster to have the casting vote. Each of them for eight 

 years to have an eighth part of the rents ; none but suitable grammar scholars 



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