SCHOOLS 



The college was opened 26 January, 1847, with 47 pupils. Among them was the present 

 Chichele Professor of International Law at Oxford, Thomas Erskine Holland, who was six 

 years in the school. 



In the beginning of 1848 land in Eastern Road was bought on a ninety-nine years' lease, and 

 the design of Mr. (afterwards Sir) Gilbert Scott chosen for the building, the foundation stone of 

 which was laid on 27 June, 1848. The removal from Portland House to the new building took 

 place on 24 January, 1849. Only the principal front, containing the class-rooms, was then ready. 

 The principal's house was finished in 1854, the chapel in 1859, the dining-hall in 1863, and six 

 boarding houses, the entrance tower (in 1886-7), an ^ big schoolroom have been later additions. 



Mr. Macleane left in 1851 to become head master of King Edward's Grammar School, Bath. 

 He was succeeded by Mr. Cotterill, the vice-principal, who after five years' head-mastership was 

 appointed to the bishopric of Grahamstown, which he gave up in 1871 to become bishop of 

 Edinburgh. For forty years continuously his family was represented in the school. One of his 

 pupils was the distinguished architect Mr. J. G. Jackson, who won a scholarship and afterwards a 

 fellowship at Wadham College, Oxford. He was architect of the examination schools at Oxford, 

 and built the entrance tower and big school at Brighton College in 1882-6. The Rev. John 

 Griffith, LL.D. St. John's College, Cambridge, was appointed in 1856 and remained till 1871, when 

 he retired to the living of Sandridge, Hertfordshire, and was succeeded by the Rev. Charles Bigg, D.D., 

 sometime tutor of Christ Church, who in 1881 was appointed rector of Fenny Compton, Warwick- 

 shire. His successor was the Rev. Thomas Hayes Belcher, in whose time the misleading title 

 principal was exchanged for that of head master. He retired to the rectory of Bramley in 1892, and 

 the Rev. R. Halley Chambers of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, became head master, but only 

 stayed three years, being then appointed head master of Christ's College, Brecon. The Rev. Arthur 

 Fluitt Titherington of Queen's College, Oxford, who was stroke of the Oxford boat in 1887, and 

 had been for six years an assistant master at Radley, was appointed in 1895. He left in 1906 to 

 become rector of Bramshott, Hampshire, and the Rev. William Rodgers Dawson, M.A., Trinity 

 College, Dublin, and a very successful head master of Grantham Grammar School, was appointed. 



The school has its paper, the Brighton College Magazine, started in 1855, to which Mr. Grant 

 Allen, when a master in the early 'seventies, often contributed, and which numbers among its past 

 editors a grandson of Charles Dickens and a son of G. P. R. James. 



There are now 180 boys, of whom about 90 are day boys, who are organized into a regular 

 house, and have their own rooms and play as a house in all the competitions. The boarders are 

 divided into six boarding houses, of which one is for the junior school, which feeds the college. All 

 the learned societies and games clubs common to all public schools flourish here also. 



BRIGHTON GRAMMAR SCHOOL 



This school was started in 1859 by a body of proprietors for the benefit of their own sons 

 primarily, to provide them with a ' liberal and complete education at a moderate cost, without 

 necessity of sending them from under supporters' own domestic care.' The course of instruction 

 was to include superior English education, Greek, German, Latin, French, arithmetic, book-keeping, 

 merchants' accounts, mathematics, algebra, natural philosophy, mensuration, drawing, perspective, 

 mapping, navigation, history, geography, chronology, astronomy, use of the globes, composition, 

 elocution, &c. The religious instruction was to be strictly unsectarian. 



The whole control of the school, appointment and dismissal of masters, was vested in the 

 proprietors, who were to appoint a committee of eight every six months. 



The original home of the school was Lancaster House, No. 47, Grand Parade, but new 

 premises were built. 



In 1865 there were about 170 boys, of whom 15 were boarders. Most of them learnt 

 Latin and French, besides English subjects, but the average age of the highest form was not above 

 fourteen. There are now 350 boys, 50 of them being boarders in the head master's house. He 

 is Mr. T. Read, B.A., B.Sc., and was himself educated at the school. He had been for six years 

 a master at the City of London School, and for ten years second master before being appointed to 

 the head-mastership in 1899. He has a staff of 18 assistant masters. 



THE WOODARD SCHOOLS 1 



In 1848 the Rev. Nathaniel, afterwards Canon, Woodard, then curate of New Shoreham, 

 issued a pamphlet called A Plea for the Middle Classes, in which he propounded a scheme for 



1 The history of these foundations is taken from a pamphlet called St. Nicholas College and its Schools, by 

 Edward C. Lowe, D.D., provost of Denstone, canon of Ely. (James Parker & Co., 1878.) 



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