SCHOOLS 



Acts approved by Queen Victoria in Council, 8 August, 1899, the endow- 

 ment, about 80 a year, is applied to evening classes and exhibitions. 



MINCHINHAMPTON : THE FREE SCHOOL OF SAINTLOE. 



Some time before 1697 Nathaniel Cambridge, formerly of Hamburg, 

 merchant, deposited 1,000 in the hands of trustees to purchase lands for the 

 establishment and support of a free school for boys born in Minchinhampton 

 or Woodchester. In 1697 they bought lands, and a house which was 

 altered to make it convenient for a school. By a scheme under the 

 Endowed Schools Acts 29 June, 1888, the school was to be conducted 

 as a secondary school at tuition fees of 6 to 8 a year. 



MARLING'S SCHOOL, STROUD 



This school is a modern foundation, quite on the ancient model. It 

 was founded by a scheme under the Endowed Schools Acts of 28 November, 

 1887. A site and 10,000 was given by Sir W. H. Marling, bart., Captain 

 W. B. Marling, and Mrs. George Robertson, children of Sir Samuel Stephens 

 Marling, bart., who had intended to found it. To this was added 1,000 

 given by Mrs. Dickinson, widow of Sebastian Stewart Dickinson, of Pains- 

 wick, for a scholarship in honour of her husband. Accumulations of income 

 of the very ancient charity for the town and church of Stroud, known as the 

 Feoffees' Charity, dating in part from a deed of 4 August, 1 304, and half 

 the income of that charity so far as applicable for the poor ; one half of 

 Samuel Watts' Charity for a lecturer, founded about 1634; the charities 

 under the wills of Thomas Webb, 4 November, 1642, for 'a good school- 

 master in Stroud,' and Henry Windowes, 13 December, 1734, for an 

 augmentation to the schoolmaster ; the Rev. William Johns' Charity for 

 apprenticeship, founded by deed 12 July, 1776 ; William Hawker's Charity 

 for the like purpose, by deed 8 January, 1676; and Richard Aldridge's 

 Charity, by will 7 December, 1815, for his family monument in the church 

 and other purposes were all consolidated and applied for the erection and 

 maintenance of a grammar school. 



Seldom has an application of more or less useless charities to education 

 been better justified by results. A school was built and opened in 1891 under 

 William John Greenstreet, of St. Saviour's Grammar School, Southwark, and 

 St. John's College, Cambridge, where he became a junior optime in the 

 mathematical tripos of 1882. He was afterwards Vice Principal of the 

 Hull and East Riding College. He came to Stroud from the Cardiff Pro- 

 prietary College. The school is now flourishing, with 88 boys 12 of whom 

 are boarders and 5 assistant masters and a music mistress. 



LYDNEY SECONDARY SCHOOL 



Thanks to the generosity of Mr. Charles Bathurst, of Lydney Park, 

 sen. and jun., the Lydney Institute, which has had a school attached since 

 1902, is in process of conversion into an endowed secondary school, under 

 a scheme of the Board of Education. Mr. Frank Dixon, B.Sc. London, 

 F.Chem.S., is head master over 80 boys and 40 girls, with 4 assistant masters 

 and 3 assistant mistresses. 



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