A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



a Bolton boy, citizen and Salter of London, for 

 Protestant lecturers, and the surplus for ' deeds or 

 works of charity,' took effect on the same day and 

 was even more beneficial. It had been practically 

 in the hands of Unitarians and had maintained 

 an undenominational elementary school, no longer 

 needed. The scheme now applied three-quarters 

 of the net income to education. Of this sum 

 one-half, 'not being more than ;^I50 a year,' 

 was to provide open university exhibitions of not 

 less than ^^50 a year, tenable at any university, 

 and for which persons disqualified fi-om the Pop- 

 plewell exhibitions were eligible. One-fourth 

 was assigned to the Bolton High School for girls, 

 and the remaining fourth made partly applicable 

 for scholarships in the grammar school. Among 

 the new governors brought in by these schemes 

 was Mr. John Robert Barlow of Greenthorne, 

 Edgeworth, who promptly raised a subscription 

 of ;^i2,ioo towards new buildings, Mr. Thomas- 

 son and Mr. William Henry Lever, of Port 

 Sunlight fame, each contributing j^5,ooo, and he 

 himself jri,ooo. With this sum the new site 

 of 9 acres in Chorley New Road and the new 

 school building were acquired. On 4 April, 



1902, Mr. Lever further gave Broomfield House 

 as a residence for the head master, and Heath 

 Bank as a boarding-house for another master, and 

 by the same deed eight houses in Bolton and two 

 houses in Birkenhead, producing about ;^400 a 

 year, by way of endowment. He also paid off 

 an overdraft on the school account of over ;£2,ooo 

 and has made large contributions towards equip- 

 ping and furnishing the school. Thus for the 

 second time, probably for the third time, in the 

 history of the school a Lever has come forward 

 as its chief benefactor. The old school was sold 

 to the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Com- 

 pany for the enlargement of their premises for 

 £2,850. 



Mr. F. H. Matthews was the head master 

 from 1892 to 1899, and, after junction with a 

 private school called the High School in 1897, 

 left about eighty-two boys. Under Mr. Lionel 

 W. Lyde, of Queen's College, Oxford, assistant 

 master at the Glasgow Academy, the school 

 grew to 153. He passed on to be Professor of 

 Geography at University College, London, in 1 903. 

 Mr. William Gull Lipscomb, the present head 

 master, was educated at St. Albans and Norwich 

 Grammar Schools and Corpus Christi College, 

 Cambridge, taking his degree in 1885. He was 

 an assistant master at University College School, 

 London, for twelve years, and head master of the 

 Isleworth County High School from 1901 to 



1903. There are now 185 boys in the school 

 under nine assistant masters, including special 

 masters for art, modern languages, and manual 

 training. The tuition fees are from eight to ten 

 guineas. There is now every reason to expect 

 that the school will establish itself permanently 

 in the position it occupied of old. 



THE CHURCH INSTITUTE SCHOOL, 

 BOLTON LE MOORS 



Meanwhile the Church Institute, as it is 

 commonly called, has also been financially 

 assisted by Mr. Lever. Under a scheme of the 

 Board of Education in 1906 it was converted 

 from a proprietary into an endowed school, with 

 a governing body on which are representatives 

 of the local education authority and subscribers. 

 It is a dual school for boys and girls at fees of 

 7|- to 10 guineas. The Rev. J. E. Kent, 

 B.A., B.Sc, London, is the head master. There 

 are 200 children and five masters and six mis- 

 tresses. 



LEYLAND GRAMMAR SCHOOL 



On 9 April, 1524,^ Sir Henry Farington de- 

 clared trusts of certain lands, including half- 

 yearly payments out of them to an able and 

 well-disposed priest daily to say and do masses 

 'at the awter in St. Nicholas chapell within 

 Leyland church.' Twenty-two years later the 

 Chantry Commissioners of Henry VIII found ' 

 Thurstane Taylour incumbent of the foundation, 

 ' by which foundacion the incumbents hereof are 

 bounde to kepe one fre gramer skoyle in the 

 church biforsayde.' The endowment is given as 

 worth £4. $s. gd. clear. The incumbent is 

 reported to 'kepe a Fre Skoyle accorddingl ye.' 

 The Chantry Commissioners of Edward VI 

 reported in similar terms, adding that Thurstane 

 Taylour was then fifty-two years old. By war- 

 rant II August, 1548,' of the Commissioners 

 under the Chantries Act for continuance of 

 schools, &c., the school was continued, and it 

 was ordered that 'Tristram Taylor scolemaster 

 there shall bee and remaync still in the same 

 roome, and have for his wages yerely^^ 3 171. io<^.' 

 out of the revenues of the Duchy of Lancaster, 

 to which the endovvments were confiscated by 

 the Act, and that sum was guaranteed to his 

 successors in the office. This payment was after- 

 wards wrongly attributed to Queen Elizabeth, 

 who got the credit of being the founder of the 

 school.'' Why the net value of the endowment 

 as stated by the Chantry Commissioners was not 

 as usual paid to this master does not appear. 

 But it is probable that part of the property was 

 copyhold. Copyholds did not pass to the crown, 

 but reverted to the lord of the manor ; and the 

 crown only paid the net income of what it 

 received. The ^3 lys. lod. was further re- 

 duced by office fees to ^^3 lOs. in 1826. But 

 the slender stipend served to keep the institution 

 alive. 



' Raines, Lanes. Chant. (Chet. See). 

 ' Leach, Engl. Sch. at the Reform. 117, 121. 

 Mbid. 124. 



' Carlisle, End. Gram. Sch. i, 670 ; Char. Cm. Rep. 

 XV, 164. 



600 



