SCHOOLS 



conversation and diligently and discreetly demean himself or else to be 

 removed by the said office.' 



A distinguished alumnus during this troubled period was the Puritan 

 President of Trinity College, Oxford, Robert Harris. Little is known about 

 the school except from the accounts, the Governors' Minute Book consisting 

 of little else than appointments of governors and grants of leases. Ambrose 

 Jenks, 1630, was the first master after the re-settlement, and Samuel Edwards 

 followed in 1634, Kirkham filled the post during the Commonwealth, and 

 Taylor was appointed in I669. 1 



In 1683 this was one of the four schools selected by George Townsend, 

 a barrister of Lincoln's Inn, to compete for the exhibitions at Pembroke 

 College, Oxford, which he established by his will. In 1695 a ^ arm at 

 Gretton was bought ; it let in 1829 at 70 a year, but in 1890 at only 40 

 a year, thereby reverting to the amount for which it was let in 1 780. 



In 1702 the custom of barring-out the masters at the beginning of 

 holidays gave trouble here as elsewhere. It was ordered by the governors 

 c If any of the Scholars be instrumental in pushing the master out of the 

 school, they shall from thenceforth be incapable of having any benefit by 

 the said school.' 



In 1 8 1 8 Rev. Joseph Wergan was master, with a salary of 50 a year. 

 He took a limited number of pupils at 30 a year. The usher taught the 

 free boys the three R's. 



In 1829 the income from endowment was 170 a year. The head 

 master received 50 a year and the under master 37 IQJ. There were 

 about 60 boys, of whom 30 to 40 were free boys, 6 or 7 of whom were 

 taught classics by the head master, who was Richard Otways Wilson, while 

 the rest received elementary instruction from the under master. 



In 1858 a subscription was begun for rebuilding the school and enlarg- 

 ing the playground. The work was completed in 1864 at a cost of 1,800. 

 Mr. Stanton, the assistant commissioner who visited the school for the 

 Schools Inquiry Commission in 1866, reported 1 'There are few Grammar 

 Schools . . . which can compare with Chipping Campden School either in 

 the appearance of the buildings or the excellence of the accommodation.' 

 There were then 34 boys under the Rev. S. F. Hiron, D.C.L., himself an 

 old Campden boy, 10 boarders and 16 * free ' boys at 2 a year and 8 paying 

 day boys at S a year. The classical work and French were well taught and 

 a mathematical master from Cambridge had just been imported to carry the 

 mathematical work to the same level. Dr. Hiron held for 9 years. The 

 Rev. Joseph Forster followed from 1871 to 1889, when the present master, 

 Mr. Francis Bayley Osborne, probably the first lay head master of the school, 

 was appointed. He was at Bedford Modern School and had been a master 

 at Preston Grammar School. 



A scheme under the Endowed Schools Acts, approved by Queen 

 Victoria in Council, 20 March, 1891, put the school under a governing 

 body of 12; including one representative of Pembroke College, Oxford, 

 2 of the justices of the Campden division, 2 of the town trustees and one of 

 the Rural District Council of Campden. The tuition fees were fixed at 6 to 

 >f 10 and boarding fees at 35 a year. The income from endowment had 



1 EaJataeJ Grammar Schoob, i, 444. * Set. Inq. Ref. xv, 50. 



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