A HISTORY OF SURREY 



free scholarships in the school, and Exhibi- 

 tions to the university. Unfortunately, yield- 

 ing to unenlightened public agitation, the 

 scheme also established a Middle School, with 

 fees at about half the amount of the Grammar 

 School fees ; but not sufficiently differentiated 

 from it. In the years 1884-9, two Whit- 

 gift boys were Senior Wranglers at Cambridge, 

 and many good scholarships have been won 

 at both Universities, thus showing the high 

 standard aimed at and achieved in the school, 

 not only in the ancient but in the modem 

 subjects of study. Fortunately the growth 

 of the income of the endowment has been 

 pari passu with the growrth of Croydon. 



Perhaps the most striking feature in the 

 present situation is that the original master 

 of the 'Poor School' of 1856 is still the 

 master of the Middle School in 1904, and that 

 the master of the Grammar School of 1871 

 has only just retired upon a pension. In the 

 vigorous hands of Mr. Andrew, appointed 

 in 1903, the Grammar School is already 

 striding onwards. Educated at Manchester 

 Grammar School, scholar of Oriel College, 

 Oxford, first class in Classics, in Moderations 

 and Final Schools, he spent a year at Berlin 

 University, and was Headmaster of Oldham 

 Grammar School, 1 895-1 902. Under him 

 the 250 boys left by Mr. Brodie have already 

 grown to 340. The fees have been raised to 

 ;Ci3 10/. a year for those entering the school 

 under twelve, and £3 a year or £.6 a year 

 more for those entering above twelve or 

 fifteen respectively. The school is already 

 clamouring for more room. 



CHARTERHOUSE, GODALMING 



On 18 June 1872 a new planet swam into 

 the ken of the observer of Surrey Schools, 

 destined soon to become one of the first mag- 

 nitude. This was Charterhouse School at 

 Godalming. 



The history of the old Charterhouse is part 

 of the history of London north of the Thames, 

 not of Surrey. Suffice it here to say that like 

 all the old 'Public Schools' so-called far 

 excellence, of which it was the most recent, it 

 was founded as a Free Grammar School. The 

 founder. Sir Thomas Sutton,* was an old 

 Etonian, who after learning law at Lincoln's 



» A general indebtedness to the excellent little 

 Charterhouse, by Mr. A. H. Tod, in Messrs. George 

 Bell & Sons' Public School Series, must once for 

 all be acknowledged for nearly all the facu about 

 the founder and the school. 



Inn, and having seen active military service 

 against Scotland, made a fortune in coal 

 mines in Northumberland, which he increased 

 by marrying a rich Surrey widow, Mrs. 

 Dudley of Stoke Newington, and doubled 

 or trebled as a city banker. His original 

 design was, on the model of Eton, for a hospi- 

 tal or almshouse and school combined, at 

 Hallingbury in Essex ; and he obtained a 

 private Act of Parliament for its establish- 

 ment there in 1609. But two years after- 

 wards, the old Charterhouse, then known as 

 Howard House, with which, as one of the 

 household of the Duke of Norfolk, he had 

 been well acquainted in his younger days, was 

 offered him instead, and he obtained letters 

 patent authorizing him to transfer the foun- 

 dation thither. 



Whether there was in Sutton's time any 

 educational establishment in part of the old 

 Charterhouse, which may have suggested 

 his new school to Sutton, does not appear. 

 There is, however, one hitherto unknown 

 incident in the educational history of the 

 Charterhouse, which I must contribute. On 

 5 November 1515, Henry Whyte of Farn- 

 ham, scholar of Winchester College, was ad- 

 mitted scholar (i.e. probationary fellow) of 

 New College, Oxford, ' in the place of John 

 Jakes, taking upon himself the office of a 

 Grammar School, at Charterhouse ' (' assu- 

 mentis in se officium scale gramaticalis apud 

 Charterhouse'). John Jakes, a native of Win- 

 chester, had been admitted a scholar there at 

 the age of ten, in 1503, and of New College 

 in 1509. He was therefore only twenty- two 

 at this time, but that was not an unusual age 

 to become a headmaster in those days. What 

 grammar school there was at the Charter- 

 house remains a mystery. It is just possible 

 that it was the young monks of Charterhouse 

 he had to teach, for we find other Fellows of 

 New College going to teach the monastic 

 orders : thus, Edmund Johnson in 1542 went 

 ' to teach canons in the city of London ' ; 

 Robert Feb worth in 1531,* 'to teach the 

 canons of Netley,' while in 1538, John Potyn- 

 ger vacated the second mastership of Win- 

 chester College ' to take the place of master 

 in grammar to the younger monks and the 

 children of the chapel and the almonry of 

 the cathedral monastery of St. Swithin's, 



= From New College Fellows' 'Protocob,' i.e. 

 the indentures entered into by the College with 

 the Fellows on admission. It is from this source 

 that the late Warden of New College, Dr. Sewell, 

 compiled his ' Register ' of Fellows. There is no 

 actual Register. 



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