SCHOOLS 



the school were maintained, the Commercial 

 and the English, which were eventually 

 merged and became the Public Elementary 

 School for the district. This school was dis- 

 continued under a scheme of the Charity 

 Commissioners at Christmas, 1897, the Board 

 Schools being found better equipped and 

 more efficient. Numerous scholarships were 

 available for the boys of the parish to pass 

 on into the Grammar School as constituted 

 by a scheme made under the Endowed 

 Schools Acts, I May 1890, and the foundation 

 has for many years been able to boast not 

 only that a complete educational ' ladder was 

 provided, but also that good use was made 

 of it. Many instances of boys of poor parents 

 being sent on to the Universities and there 

 acquitting themselves well are recorded. The 

 success of the school in the direction of the 

 University is clearly shown by the Open 

 Scholarships won by the boys at Oxford and 

 Cambridge. These placed the school among 

 the first 20 schools in the kingdom in the 

 Public Schools Record, which was annually 

 published by Mr. E. T. Cook, successively 

 in the Poll Mall Gazette, the Westminster 

 Gazette, the Daily News, and now in the 

 Daily Chronicle. In 1 891-2 six scholarships 

 were won, making the number for the six 

 years, 21. 



The rebuilding of the school was resolved 

 upon in 1892, and commenced in November 

 of that year. Mr. Johnston, after 34 years 

 work at the school, died before much progress 

 had been made. He was succeeded by Mr. 

 W. G. Rushbrooke in 1893. Mr. Rushbrooke 

 was educated at the City of London School, 

 whence he won a scholarship at St. John's 

 College, Cambridge, was placed in the first 

 class in the Classical Tripos and became a 

 Fellow of the College. 



ST. OLAVE'S AND ST. SAVIOUR'S 

 GRAMMAR SCHOOL 



The present school is known as the St. 

 Olave's and St. Saviour's Grammar School, 

 and the funds of the two rival Grammar 

 Schools have been merged and Grammar 

 Schools for boys and girls are under this 

 joint Foundation." 



BLECHINGLEY GRAMMAR SCHOOL 



Space does not permit more than a mention 

 of the unfortunate history of Blechingley 

 Grammar School. It was founded by deed of 



1 See evidence of Rev. T. W. Sharpe, Royal 

 Commission on Secondary Education, 1894-5. 

 > See under St. Saviour's School, p. 181 above. 



John Whatman,' 8 September 1564, who 

 granted a house and 5^ * burgages ' for a Free 

 School. But in a deed of 1631 it is stated that 

 the house and property had been misapplied 

 for the purposes of an almshouse for the poor. 

 The heirs of the original grantees by this deed 

 conveyed the property to John Evans of 

 London, gentleman, who expended ;£400 in 

 buying some more lands, about 33 acres in all, 

 and started the school under the Rev. 

 Robert Blackwell. 



Statutes were made 22 April 1656, largely 

 modelled on those of Camberwell, for a 

 Free Grammar School, the master ' to teach, 

 freely and without gift or reward whatsoever, 

 in the English and Latin tongues, and to write 

 and cast accounts according to the rules of 

 arithmetic, 20 male children of the poorest 

 inhabitants of Blechingley and born in the 

 parish.' The income was too small to maintain 

 a proper grammar school. In 1820 a Mr. 

 Heaseman, who had been master for many 

 years, died and left the house in so dilapidated 

 a state, that the next master, Mr. George 

 Quilton, ruined himself in restoring it to 

 a fit state by the aid of the timber on the 

 school land. Latin had already disappeared, 

 and the school was and remained elementary. 

 By a scheme under the Endowed Schools 

 Acts, 7 July 1874, the bulk of the endow- 

 ment was legally appropriated for elementary 

 school purposes, with an optional provision 

 for exhibitions to places of higher education. 



FARNHAM SCHOOL* 



Farnham Grammar School is in West 

 Street. It is commonly but erroneously said 

 to have been founded by Dr. Harding, Pre- 

 sident of Magdalen, Oxford, in i6ii. 



Aubrey says that the school was probably 

 an ancient chapel ° or chantry. His opinion 

 is of some weight because he saw the old 

 school building, which stood in the church- 

 yard, and which the Vestry sold by auction in 

 1758 for £,\z. It was possibly endowed with 

 the revenues of a chantry established in Farn- 

 ham Castle by Bishop William Edington in 

 1 35 1, which chantry was endowed with a rent 

 from Southwark, and a house, three acres of 

 land, and a rent of eight marks in Farnham." 



Dr. Harding, President of Magdalen, the 

 reputed founder of the school, in 161 1, was 

 only the benefactor of a previously existing 

 school, for by his will he recognized it as then 



3 Char. Com. Rep. xiii. 528. 

 < The editor is indebted to Mr. H. E. Maiden 

 for this article. 



6 Natural Hist, and Antiq. of Surrey, iii. 345. 

 •^ Pat. 25 Edw. in. pt. iii. m. 11. 



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