SCHOOLS 



COLSTON'S GIRLS' DAY SCHOOL 



This school was opened in January, 1891, in Cheltenham Road, under a 

 scheme of the Charity Commissioners of 1875 by which the surplus income 

 of Colston's Hospital was to be used for a girls' day school. The governing 

 body consists of 8 members of the Colston's Hospital governing body and 

 5 ladies co-opted by them. The fees are 6 a year, and there are 350 

 girls. Under Miss Evangeline Margaret Hughes, B.A. London, and a staff 

 of teachers, six of whom have university qualifications, this school has 

 rapidly developed into a secondary school of the highest type, preparing 

 pupils for the London Matriculation examinations and for various colleges 

 for women. 



MERCHANT VENTURERS' TECHNICAL COLLEGE 



A diocesan school was established in Nelson Street in 1812, which, 

 being unsuccessful, was converted in 1856 into a trade school, taken over 

 by the Society of Merchant Venturers, and transferred to Unity Street 

 in 1885. No. 8, Unity Street, was added in 1899, and the Rosemary Street 

 and Kingsdown Parade premises were added in 1903. The college includes 

 a preparatory school and secondary day school for boys, who number about 

 360. The fees are 2 3*. 4^. a term ; and there are evening classes for adults, 

 for which zs. 6d. to IQJ. 6d. a session is charged, as well as the regular 

 adult day students, who pay 10 IOJ - a year; and the total number of 

 students in 1903 was 2,426. They enter for London Matriculation and 

 Board of Education examinations, and become engineers of all kinds, 

 chemists, surveyors, architects, teachers, civil servants, &c., on leaving the 

 college. The principal is Professor Julius Wertheimer, B.Sc., B.A., who has 

 a staff of 2 1 teachers under him, exclusive of visiting teachers and a large 

 staff engaged for evening classes only. The school was burnt to the ground 

 in 1906, and the classes are now held in various elementary schools, pending 

 reconsideration of the whole establishment. 



CLIFTON COLLEGE 



The Clifton College Company was incorporated under the Companies 

 Acts, 13 September, 1860, with a nominal capital of 10,000, in 400 shares 

 of 25 each. The Rev. Charles Evans, assistant master at Rugby, formerly 

 fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Senior Classic 1847, was elected 

 head master, and in September, 1861, opened the school in Arlington Villas, 

 but just a year afterwards resigned on being elected to the head mastership of 

 King Edward's School, Birmingham. Then came the Rev. John Percival, 

 assistant master at Rugby, formerly fellow of Queen's College, Oxford, where 

 he obtained double firsts in both mathematical and classical Moderations and 

 Final Schools. By this time the building was sufficiently advanced for the 

 schoolhouse and big school to be used, and the formal opening took place 

 on 30 September, 1862. There were then 60 boys. The school was divided 

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