SCHOOLS 



i 1 6 a year and 2 capitation fee. The usher was to receive 60 a year. 

 The vicar and churchwardens' consent was rendered necessary to the granting 

 of leases, and the system of beneficial leases on fines was abolished. 



The school might then have been put on a firm basis as what it was 

 intended by its founder to be, the principal school of the place. But unfor- 

 tunately the Rev. Clement Hawkins, the master, had a vested interest in a 

 small school. It was not till his death, in 1845, tnat anything could 

 be done. 



The school was wholly closed from 1840 to 1852. It was then reopened 

 under a scheme of the Court of Chancery of n November, 1851. This 

 limited the number of boarders to 30, and the tuition fees to 6 guineas a year, 

 and a preference was to be given to inhabitants of the parish up to 500. No 

 provision was made for new buildings on a new site, which was essential if 

 the school was to take the place it ought to have taken. 



But in the interval the more intelligent inhabitants had acted for them- 

 selves, and established by private enterprise Cheltenham College, the immediate 

 success of which was a measure alike of the demand for a good school and 

 the weakness of parochial narrowness and jealousy in the sphere of school 

 management. From that time the grammar school was doomed to a lower 

 plane, and has been the sport of parochial politics and constant conflicts of 

 programme and principle. 



The first head master of the resuscitated school was Dr. Humphreys, who 

 brought the number of scholars up to 106. He was succeeded by Dr. Henry 

 Hayman. At the time of the Schools Inquiry Commission in 1866 he had 

 1 27 boys, of whom 46 were boarders, 24 in the head master's house and 22 

 in the commercial master's house. The school was divided into classical and 

 commercial departments, the two being quite distinct, even in their games. 

 They were, in fact, two schools : the classical of 58 boys and commercial of 

 69. It was an unsatisfactory and unworkable arrangement, and the usual 

 result of commercial schools was obtained, that the boys in it were ' not so 

 far advanced in arithmetic or mathematics as the boys in the classical 

 department.' Dr. Hayman left in 1867 to go to Bradfield and thence to 

 Rugby. 



Under Henry Martyn Jeffery, F.R.S., who had been second master, the 

 school was gradually reduced to 17 boys. 



A scheme made under the Endowed Schools Acts, 15 July, 1881, put 

 an end to the governorship of the distant college, and placed the management 

 of the school, including the appointment of the head master, in a governing 

 body of 12 persons, consisting of the Mayor of Cheltenham ex officio, 

 3 representatives of the town council, 4 of the college, 2 of the justices of 

 the peace of the Cheltenham division, and 2 of the parents of scholars. 

 Mr. James Winterbottom, first honorary secretary and then chairman of" 

 the governing body, and Mr. W. H. Gwinnett, an * old boy ' and chairman 

 to 1901, have done signal service to the school. 



In February, 1882, the governors elected as head master Mr. John Style, 

 M.A., Cambridge, then second master of Manchester Grammar School. 



The buildings contained three class-rooms, which may have been the 

 original school of Richard Pate. On its outer wall was the legend, 

 Scola Grammatical It stood on the High Street end of the ' one furrow of 



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