SCHOOLS 



was dated 13 November, 1621, and gave certain buildings and lands and 

 stock producing 13 13*. loJ. per annum. 



What the relation of this school to the ' King's School ' was intended to 

 be does not appear. It was stated in 1818 that 'the King's School and Lady 

 Chandos' School have usually been holden by the Vicar,' the vicar being 

 appointed master of both foundations and conducting a grammar school in 

 the Chandos School buildings, the old school which was opposite to the 

 church having fallen into decay. But when this began cannot be ascertained. 

 The inevitable result of the combination of offices followed in the decay of 

 the school. From the time of John James Latas, vicar, 1793-1832, the 

 school had degenerated into a merely elementary school, the vicar taking the 

 income of both schools and paying a deputy to perform the duty of teaching. 

 In 1816, 20 to 24, in 1829, 34 boys were taught the three R's. In 1832 

 Mr. Charles Lapworth was appointed and was still master in i866. 1 It 

 was then reported that penmanship of an elaborate character was his 

 chief care. The reading was indifferent, and in arithmetic none had 

 reached fractions. 



On Lapworth's death, Mr. Thomas C. Webb, the present master, was 

 appointed, September, 1871, by the trustees of the Chandos School. He 

 had been head master of Raye's Endowed School, Cheveley, and second 

 master of the Grammar School, Newport, Isle of Wight. He quickly 

 revived and has sustained the character of the school as a grammar school. 



The salary was 80 a year for 14 foundation scholars, with power to 

 take 10 more boys at four guineas a year each. At Christmas, 1873, he 

 removed from the old school, which was 14 ft. by 12 ft. only, to the 

 * Club Room ' in Gloucester Street, when the numbers went up to 50. In 

 1874-5 the present school adjoining the old school, 40 ft. by 18 ft., was 

 built by subscription at a cost of 477, tne ^ school being used as a dining- 

 room. Desks were found by a subscription inaugurated by the vicar, the 

 Rev. R. Noble Jackson, in 1882. 



On 28 November, 1876, a scheme under the Endowed Schools Acts was 

 approved by Queen Victoria in Council. This established a governing body 

 of 7 governors, the high bailiff ex qfficio, 2 representatives of the Vestry, now 

 of the Parish Council, one of the justices of the Petty Sessional Division, and 

 3 co-optatives headed by Lord Sudeley. The tuition fees were to be 2 to 

 5 a year, and the boys were to leave at 16. Latin but not Greek was 

 included in the curriculum. By a scheme of the same date the King's 

 School was incorporated, with leave to apply its endowment, if and when 

 redeemed by the Treasury, for a sum of Consols to bettering the buildings. 

 The name of the Chandos School was adopted for the united foundation ; so 

 that poor Lady Huddleston, to whom the school was primarily due, bids fair 

 to be wholly forgotten. The boys aim at the Oxford Local Examinations. 

 About 1890 the numbers fell, but they have since revived, and there are 

 now 30 in the school, of whom 20 are boarders. The endowment, which 

 in 1840 brought in 74 a year, now yields but 55 a year. 



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