A HISTORY OF SUSSEX 



London in 1897. He came to Midhurst in 1903 from an assistant-mastership at Chelmsford 

 Grammar School. There are 7 1 boys in the school at tuition fees of 7 guineas a year. The 

 standard aimed at is that of the Oxford Local Examinations. 



In 1888 four scholarships of $ each were founded, and three Smith scholarships for boys on 

 admission to the school, and one lord of the manor scholarship for the boy who does best in the 

 annual examination. 



In 1900 science buildings were added with the aid of a contribution of ^400 from the county 



council. 



A new scheme was sealed by the Board of Education on 26 April, 1905, which created a new 

 governing body of 14 persons : the vicar ex qfficio, 3 representatives of the West Sussex county 

 council, 4 of the Midhurst parish council, one of the university of Oxford, and 5 co-optatives. By 

 this scheme instruction is to be given ' in such subjects proper to be taught in a Public Secondary 

 School for boys as the governors, in consultation with the head master, shall from time to time 

 determine,' and boys are allowed to stay to 1 7 years of age and in special cases to 1 9. The scheme 

 also provided for six Hannam scholarships for boys from public elementary schools. 



In 1879 to the old schoolroom, 33 ft. by 32 ft. 2 in. and 21 ft. high, were added two class-rooms, 

 23 ft. by 15 ft. I O in., at a cost of 450. The playground is some two acres. A new master's 

 house with accommodation for 15 boarders was built at a cost of 2,100, of which 1,315 was 

 raised by subscriptions. 



EAST GRINSTEAD SCHOOL 



The free grammar school at East Grinstead was endowed by Robert Payne, of Newick, by 

 will dated 1 6 August, 1708, with the rent of a farm called ' Serreys Farm ' in East Grinstead, under 

 the management of seven trustees. They were to appoint boys of the parish only, in number 

 according to the value of the rent. A schoolhouse was in existence before 1708, but that had fallen 

 into decay before I775, 1 and after that the school was held in a room lent by Lord De La Warr, who 

 was one of the trustees. 



In 1818 there were 25 free boys, who were admitted from six to eleven years of age, 

 and could stay till their twelfth birthday, and about 40 other boys attended the school, paying a 

 small weekly fee, 6d. to i s. Latin and Greek had not then been taught for at least forty-five years, and 

 the boys were only learning the three Rs. 2 



The average number of boys in 1835 is said to have been 80, of whom 25 were free, 3 

 but the master, Mr. C. R. Duplex, was constantly engaged in litigation with the trustees, which 

 caused the school to be shut up from 1839 to 1847, when a new scheme was made by the Court of 

 Chancery. The expenses of it amounted to ^261 9*. 6d. which were defrayed by the sale of 

 timber on the farm. 



By this scheme, the English language, reading, writing and arithmetic, the Church Catechism 

 and the Holy Scriptures were substituted for Latin and Greek. 



There were 25 free boys, and 15 paying ^d. to 6d. a week in 1867, under the same 

 master, C. Duplex, who had been there in 1835, and the instruction was said to be far below 

 that of a good national school. 4 



By a scheme under the Endowed Schools Act of 29 June, 1888, the endowment was reclaimed 

 for secondary education in the form of exhibitions of i o to 30 a year, open to boys and girls of 

 East Grinstead, between twelve and fourteen years old, and for evening classes in scientific, technical, 

 or literary subjects. 



BRIGHTON COLLEGE 41 



The establishment ot Brighton College was due to a public meeting held on 27 October, 1845. 

 At a second meeting, on 15 December, a council was appointed to carry out the design, the president 

 being the then earl of Chichester, who held the office till his death in 1886. In May, 1 846, the council 

 hired Portland House, at the top of Portland Place, at the east end of Brighton, for three years at a 

 rent of 120 guineas. On 10 August they appointed the Rev. Arthur John Macleane, B.A., of 

 Trinity College, Cambridge, principal. The first vice-principal was the Rev. Henry Cotterill, M.A. 

 late Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, senior wrangler, first Smith's prizeman, and in the 

 first class of the classical tripos, 1835. 



1 Char. Com. Rep. ii, 165. * Carlisle, Endowed Grammar Schools, ii, 601. 



1 Horsfield, Hist, of Sussex, i, 387. * Scb. Inf. Rep. xi, 226. 



1 The facts for this article are taken from the Brighton College Reg. pt. i, 1847-63 and from articles in 

 the Ludgate Illustrated Mag. August, 1894, and the Public School Mag. April, 1899. 



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