A HISTORY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE 



University' received 20, and in 1772 Daniel Kysic succeeded him. He 

 became a fellow and tutor of Oriel College, Oxford. Clissold died in the 

 summer of 1788. He was succeeded by the Rev. Peter Monamy Cornwall, 

 a scholar of Westminster School and fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge ; 

 also vicar of Westbourne in Sussex. 



In I799 1 Nicholas Owen Smyth Owen, the descendant of the original 

 John Smith, gave a farm in North Nibley called Starwell in exchange for a 

 release of all the stolen lands which had been so intermixed with the proper 

 Smith lands as to be unrecognizable. The exchange proved beneficial, as the 

 income of the property which the school acquired had risen by 1819 from 

 107 to 136. In the year before Mr. Smyth Owen had sold the North 

 Nibley estate to John Justin, including the patronage of the school. 



In 1 80 1 the income of the school having increased to about 400 a 

 year, the master's salary was raised to 80 a year, and the exhibitions to 30. 

 In 1 8 1 8 2 Cornwall had as usher his son Eusebius Cornwall, who had been a 

 poor scholar and exhibitioner from the school, and was also curate of Uley. 

 Cornwall had boarders, charging fifty guineas for 'parlour boarders,' and 

 thirty guineas for others. In 1824 the master's salary was increased by a 

 ' gratuity ' of 20 a year. 



Lord Brougham's Commission of Inquiry concerning Charities on visit- 

 ing Wotton in 1826 found 10 foundation scholars, each receiving 6 a year, 

 and 14 others, making 24 in all, all being educated free. No mention 

 is made of boarders. So they had probably been given up, owing to the 

 advanced age of Mr. Cornwall, then 81 years old. This school was 

 actually conducted by his son George, also an ex-gown boy and exhibitioner 

 'who appears to give satisfaction both as to morals and competency of 

 learning.' In 1828 Cornwall's long reign of 41 years came to an end. In 

 1833 his grandson Peter Monamy Cornwall received an exhibition of 50 

 from the school at Cambridge. 



The Rev. Joseph Barkett of Trinity College, Oxford, who succeeded to 

 the mastership, held office for just 10 years. In 1839 the Rev. Benjamin 

 Robert Perkins, who was then vicar of Wotton, and as such ex officio trustee 

 of the school, obtained from the then patron, Mr. Jorkin, the appointment of 

 master. Mr. Perkins was an undergraduate at Lincoln College, Oxford, in 1 820; 

 chaplain at Christ Church 1824 to 1831 ; and vicar of Wotton in 1829. 



One of the earliest acts of the new head master, 28 May, 1839, was to 

 appoint his eldest son to a probationary scholarship. Four of these had been 

 instituted three years before to give education gratis, but without stipend. A 

 year later the boy was admitted to a foundation scholarship before he had 

 attained the statutory age of i o years ; another son was admitted a proba- 

 tionary scholar at the age of 8, and there were 3 more sons, who all in 

 time held foundation scholarships. 



The inevitable result of the merger in the master of the chairman of 

 the trustees, one of whose main duties was to supervise the master, was 

 the neglect by the master of his duties. This provoked an application to 

 the Board of Charity Commissioners, 7 April, 1855, who certified the case 

 to the Attorney-General. All that resulted was a scheme of 5 December, 

 1860, which increased the number of trustees to 17, required them an 



1 Char. Com. Rep. xvii, 344. * Carlisle, Endowed Grammar Schools, \, 497. 



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