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of slave compensation money claimed by two old per- 4 
sons who died before the dispute was settled, and left no 4 
heirs. The College was so far supported by an annual 
Colonial Grant varying from £300 at its commencement 
in 1849, to £829.11.8, upon condition that the Bishop 
should yearly contribute not less than £200, which he did 
till 1861. Queen’s College was the only high class school 
in the Colony, until the Roman Catholic Grammar 
School was opened in 1866. The Head Masters until 
the Institution was taken over by the Government 
were always clergymen of the Church of England.* 
The first mention I can find of any Primary School is 
in 1812. Ina letter of that year, the Governor, General 
HuGH LYLE CARMICHAEL, asks the Rev. JOHN DAVIES of 
the London Missionary Society totaketwoorphanchildren 
into his school. The Governor also commends DAVIES 
for the good work in which he is engaged. It is probable 
that DAviEs’ school was the only institution for the 
children of the poor in Georgetown at that early date. 
In 1824 two free schools, one for boys and one for 
girls, under the patronage and chiefly through the in- 
fluence of Sir BENJAMIN and Lady DURBAN, assisted 
by many of the citizens, were established in Georgetown. 
By reference to a minute of St. Andrew’s Kirk Session 
of August roth, 1828, we find it recorded that the two 
* For an interesting account of the de Saffon Institution which 
has been of so great benefit to so many orphan children, the reader is 
referred to the late Mr, Ten Broeke’s paper in Vol. II of the West 
Indian Quarterly. , 
What has become of the Estate of Walter Mitchell who died in 1862, 
and left his property, ‘In order to found a Church, College, or other 
Charitable Institution, in this Colony, similar to the Saffon Establish- 
ment, though not with the same exclusion, but under similar rules’? 
