SCHOOLS 



grade schools in that part of the country. 

 Whether he was inspired by, or inspired the 

 council of King's College, at all events they 

 acted on the hint. In 1897 a private house, 

 called South Hayes, on the south-west corner 

 of Wimbledon Common, with some eight 

 acres of ground, came into the market. The 

 chance was seized with promptitude. The 

 site was inspected in January, and in May the 

 school was opened in its new premises. The 

 cost, about £l6,ooo, was chiefly defrayed by 

 money received on debentures, some of which 

 have been released by way of gift to the school. 



The numbers of the school were then 170, 

 drawn from all round London. About sixty 

 boys from the east and north of London were 

 left behind, and no moved to Wimbledon, 

 but sixty from the locality filled up the places 

 of those who did not follow its fortunes. In 

 1899 the numbers had risen to 230, when new 

 buildings, comprising a great hall and six 

 class-rooms, erected chiefly by subscription 

 at a cost of some ;f9,ooo, were opened by the 

 Duke of Cambridge. In 1904, an adjoining 

 cricket field, of five acres, was added. The 

 heavy income-tax and depression in trade, 

 caused by the Boer War, checked the increase 

 of the numbers. But there are now (July 

 1904), 304 boys in the school. Of these, about 

 two-thirds come on foot, or by bicycle, and 

 one-third by train. By a wise provision, a 

 school omnibus is provided, which fetches and 

 carries the boys to the station. There are 

 forty boarders in the houses of Mr. Carrodus 

 and Mr. Jones, close to the school. 



The tuition fees are £24 a year, or ;£2i if 

 the boy begins his school career under twelve 

 years of age. There is a staff of twelve resi- 

 dent masters. The modern side shows a 

 slight tendency to predominate over the 

 classical side. The school has no endowment 

 beyond its site and buildings, part of which 

 will demand rebuilding at no distant date, and 

 half-a-dozen leaving exhibitions. These are 

 the ' Forest ' scholarship of £■^0 a year, and 

 the ' Sambroke,' of £z^ a year in classics, and 

 the mathematical scholarship in mathematics, 

 all tenable for three years. Besides these, the 

 Salters' Company of London give exhibitions 

 of ;£8o every fourth year for science, and the 

 Skinners' Company one of £50 for modern 

 languages. The Surrey County Council now 

 make a grant of ;C200 a year. A school, the 

 friends of which are prepared to find ;£25,ooo 

 in five years for buildings, need not look for- 

 ward with dismay to any demands likely to be 

 made on it in the future, and King's College 

 School seems destined in its new home to 

 occupy an important place in the educational 

 field of Surrey. 



CRANLEIGH AND BRAMLEY 

 SCHOOLS 



Cranleigh School was opened as a cheap 

 boarding school for the sons of members of 

 the Church of England, in 1865, as the 

 Surrey County School. The site and build- 

 ings cost ;f25,ooo. The boarding and tuition 

 fees came to £^0, or, with Greek or German, 

 about £$$. The school under the Rev. 

 Joseph Merriman soon rose to over 200 

 boys. In 1894' there were 300 boys, and 

 now, under the Rev. G. C. Allen, there are 

 about the same number. 



St. Catherine's School at Bramley, near 

 Guildford, a sister school for girls to Cran- 

 leigh, was opened in September 1885, and 

 incorporated by royal charter in 1898. The 

 site and buildings cost about ;£20,ooo. The 

 fees for boarders are £^^ a year, and £z i^s. 

 for day scholars. There are ninety of the 

 former and twelve of the latter under Mrs. 

 Mary Russell Baker. 



ST. JOHN'S FOUNDATION SCHOOL, 

 LEATHERHEAD ' 



St. John's School, Leatherhead, over 

 which the Rev. A. F. Rutty has presided 

 since 1883, is a similar school for the sons 

 of clergymen. It was started by the Rev. 

 A. B. Haslewood, incumbent of St. Mark's, 

 Hamilton Terrace, Kilburn, with the aid of 

 offertories and subscriptions on 20 January 

 1852, with eight boys in the house of his 

 curate, Anthony Thompson. The pay for 

 boarding and education was £i\.o a year. In 

 1853 the Committee of subscribers — headed 

 by Mr. Charles Churchill, still chairman of 

 the present committee of management — re- 

 moved the school from the control of Mr. 

 Haslewood to Greville Mount House, Kil- 

 burn, where Kilburn station now stands. In 

 1857 the school lost its first Headmaster, and 

 was moved to Walthamstow as part of the 

 private school of the Rev. L. P. Mercier, who 

 next year removed it to Clapton House, 

 Clapton. In 1861 it was established on its 

 present basis under the Rev. E. C. Hawkins, 

 and with seventy boys filled its then premises 

 to overflowing. In August 1872 it became 

 a Surrey school by removal to Leatherhead, 

 where twelve acres of land had been bought 

 for £2,500 and buildings for 100 boys erected 

 by subscription at a cost of £15,000. Sub- 



1 Royal Commission on Sec. Educ. vii. 7b. 



3 St. John's College, Leatherhead, School Register, 

 1852-1904. Edited by the Rev. H. H. Beaumont. 

 Printed and published by an old J ohnian, London, 

 1904. 



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