A HISTORY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE 



The school was made a very subordinate part of the establishment. 

 The master was to be appointed by the principal of the college, 18 choristers 

 were to be free, and 3 boys might be admitted up to the age of 15 at such 

 fees as the chapter might appoint. 



The school was, however, a success. The Rev. Henry W. Poles, 

 of St. John's College, Cambridge, a senior optime, who had been six years at 

 Cranleigh School, Surrey, was appointed head master in January, 1876. 

 He found 18 choristers and I paying boy. In less than three years the 

 full complement of 100 allowed by the scheme was reached, and was then 

 raised to i 20. 



The Training College was placed under the Rev. Alfred Rosser, B.A. 

 London, and the scholars in it had the school as a training school. But the 

 only people who came to the college were those who had been given scholar- 

 ships. When their two years had elapsed no more came, and the training 

 college collapsed. This necessitated a new scheme. It treated the school 

 as an ordinary secondary school, with leaving age of 17, and substituted for 

 the rival schoolmasters' nominee on the governing body a representative of 

 the Bristol School Board ; but it still retained the representatives of the 

 governing bodies of the rival Bristol Grammar and Colston Hospital Schools. 

 The head master's status was raised to that of other grammar schools, with 

 sole power of appointing and dismissing assistant masters. The fees were 

 raised to from 5 to 10 a year and foundation scholarships by competition 

 were provided ; the choristers being still admitted free. The endowment, 

 however, was not increased. 



In the school Latin and French have been compulsory, Greek is optional 

 and an extra, and no one learns it. Games and sports are kept up under 

 difficulties, by means of a field hired near the Downs. There are now 102 

 boys and 4 assistant masters. The boys mostly go into business in the town. 

 The endowment is only 200 a year. 



QUEEN ELIZABETH'S HOSPITAL 



John Carr founded this school by will 10 April, 1586. He was a 

 soap-boiler, having works in Bristol and at Bow, and is said to have acquired 

 great wealth by a secret process of manufacture. He gave the manor of 

 Congresbury and all his estates in Somerset for the erection of a hospital 

 in Bristol 



for bringing up of poor children and orphans, being men children born in the city of 

 Bristowe, or in any part of testator's manor, lands or tenements in Congresbury, and whose 

 parents are deceased or fallen into decay, and not able to relieve them ; and for those 

 chiefly to provide in such order, manner, and form, and with such foundation, ordinances, 

 laws, and government, as the hospital of Christchurch, nigh St. Bartholomew's Hospital, in 

 London, is founded, ordered, and governed. 



The corporation were appointed governors of the charity, and on Carr's 

 death they at once began to make arrangements for the establishment of the 

 hospital, and in March, 1590, obtained a charter from the crown. 1 



This year aboute iij weekes in Lent there was presented in the house a patente from 

 her majestic as concerninge a hospitall to be erected by the name of Queene Eliz. Hospital!, 

 yssueinge oute of John Carres landes. Which said Hospitall was the same yeere, by the 



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