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The School at Sandy Lodge

Merchant Taylors' School is a British public school, located in Northwood. It was founded in 1561 by members of the Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors. Image File history File links Merchant Taylors crest File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Merchant Taylors crest File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Mtssandylodge. ... Image File history File links Mtssandylodge. ... A public school, in current English, Welsh and Northern Ireland usage, is a (usually) prestigious independent school, for children usually between the ages of 11 or 13 and 18, which charges fees and is not financed by the state. ... Northwood is a suburb of London in the London Borough of Hillingdon. ... // Events The Edict of Orleans suspends the persecution of the Huguenots. ... The Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. ...

The school is consistently ranked in the top five independent boys' schools in England in the DfES league tables, placing second in 2005. It is considered to be amongst the leading educational establishments in the UK. Department for Education and Skills (DfES) is a department in the United Kingdom government created in 2001. ...

School history

1561 - 1605

The school was founded in 1561 by members of the Merchant Taylors' Company. The site of the original school was a manor house called the Manor of the Rose in the parish of St. Lawrence Pountney in the City of London. The school remained on this site until 1875 when it moved to Charterhouse Square, moving again in 1933 to Sandy Lodge in Northwood. // Events The Edict of Orleans suspends the persecution of the Huguenots. ... The Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. ... A parish is a type of administrative subdivision. ... Coat of arms The City of London is a small area in Greater London. ... 1875 (MDCCCLXXV) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...

MTS was not the first school to be founded by members of the Merchant Taylors' Company for the Tudor period in England was a period of expansion for education. Sir John Percival (Master of the Company in 1485, Lord Mayor of London in 1498) established a grammar school at Macclesfield in 1502, while in 1508 his widow founded one at St. Mary's Wike in Cornwall (which moved to Launceston shortly thereafter). Also in 1508, Sir Steven Jenyns (Master in 1490, Lord Mayor in 1508) founded Wolverhampton Grammar School which still maintains strong links with the Company. Allegory of the Tudor dynasty (detail), attributed to Lucas de Heere, ca 1572: left to right, Philip II of Spain, Mary, Henry VIII, Edward VI, Elizabeth The Tudor period usually refers to the historical period between 1485 and 1558, especially in relation to the history of England. ... Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location (dark green) within the United Kingdom (light green), with the Republic of Ireland (blue) to its west Languages None official English de facto Capital None official London de facto Largest city London Area – Total Ranked... John Percival (3 April 1779 – 7 September 1862) was an officer in the United States Navy during the Quasi-War with France and the War of 1812. ... // Events August 5-7 - First outbreak of sweating sickness in England begins August 22 - Battle of Bosworth Field is fought between the armies of King Richard III of England and rival claimant to the throne of England Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond. ... Michael Berry Savory. ... 1498 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... A grammar school is a type of school found in some English-speaking countries; some of which date back to earlier than the 16th century. ... Location within the British Isles Macclesfield is a market town in Cheshire, England with a population of around 50,688 (2001 census for Macclesfield urban sub-area). ... 1502 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1508 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Cornwall (Cornish: Kernow) is a county at the extreme South-West of England on the peninsula that lies to the west of the River Tamar. ... Location within the British Isles Launceston (Cornish: Lannstefan; the English name is pronounced , or , usually without the t by the Cornish, but with by everyone else) is a town in the north of Cornwall, with a population of approximately 7,000. ... Events Tirant Lo Blanc by Joanot Martorell, Martí Joan De Galba is published. ... Wolverhampton is an city and metropolitan borough in the English West Midlands, traditionally part of the county of Staffordshire. ...

Many of the earlier Tudor schools were attached to monasteries and were dissolved after 1535 by Henry VIII and his son Edward VI, only to re-emerge after 1550, some of them even bearing Edward's name as founder. MTS missed these turbulent times being founded instead at the opening of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I and in a period of cultural richness and advancement. Monastery of St. ... Events January 18 - Lima, Peru founded by Francisco Pizarro April - Jacques Cartier discovers the Iroquois city of Stadacona, Canada (now Quebec) and in May, the even greater Huron city of Hochelaga June 24 - The Anabaptist state of Münster (see Münster Rebellion) is conquered and disbanded. ... Henry VIII (28 June 1491 – 28 January 1547) was King of England and Lord of Ireland (later King of Ireland) from 22 April 1509 until his death. ... Edward Tudor redirects here; for another (though unlikely) Edward Tudor, see a putative younger son of Henry VII of England, who, if existed, would be the uncle of this Edward Edward VI (12 October 1537 – 6 July 1553) was King of England, King of France and King of Ireland from... Events February 7 - Julius III becomes Pope. ... Elizabeth I, (7 September 1533–24 March 1603) was Queen of England, Queen of France (in name only), and Queen of Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death. ...

The first Head Master, Richard Mulcaster, took up his post in 1561. Richard Mulcaster remains, to this day, one of the greatest of British educational visionaries. His educational philosophy is embodied in two books, The Positions (1581) and The Elementarie (1582), the latter an instalment of a larger work and one of the first dictionaries in English apart from anything else. He had Spenser for his pupil, and has often been identified as the subject of Shakespeare’s wit in his caricature of the pedantic schoolmaster: Holofernes in Love's Labour's Lost. His boy actors, “Mr. Mulcaster’s children”, were seen as serious competitors by Shakespeare’s company at The Globe which is perhaps why Hamlet himself ridicules this company of boy actors in the most famous play ever written. Mulcaster wrote in English, wishing to reach out to the audience of educated businessmen then called “the vulgar”. His goal was that English as a language might claim its place side by side with Latin: “I love Rome, but London better, I favour Italy, but England more, I honour Latin, but worship English.” He has been called “the greatest Sixteenth century advocate of [[football” and was the first advocate of the introduction of referees: “For if one stand by, which can judge of the play, and is judge over the parties, & hath authoritie to commande in the place, all those inconveniences have bene, I know, & wilbe I am sure very lightly redressed, nay they will never entermedle in the matter, neither shall there be complaint, where ther is no cause.” Richard Mulcaster, one of the greatest British educational visionaries, is known best for his headmasterships and paedegogic writings. ... Richard Mulcaster, one of the greatest British educational visionaries, is known best for his headmasterships and paedegogic writings. ... Spenser (played by Robert Urich) and his girlfriend Susan Silverman (played by Barbara Stock) on the former television series, Spenser: For Hire. ... William Shakespeare—born April 1564; baptised April 26, 1564; died April 23, 1616 (O.S.), May 3, 1616 (N.S.)—has a reputation as the greatest of all writers in English. ... Holofernes appears in the deuterocanonical Book of Judith as a general of Nebuchadnezzar. ... Loves Labours Lost is one of William Shakespeares early comedies; it is believed to have been written around 1595-1596 and is probably contemporaneous with Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Nights Dream. ... William Shakespeare—born April 1564; baptised April 26, 1564; died April 23, 1616 (O.S.), May 3, 1616 (N.S.)—has a reputation as the greatest of all writers in English. ... The Globe may refer to: The Globe Theatre in Southwark The Globe Arena. ... A detail of the engraving of Daniel Maclises 1842 painting The Play-scene in Hamlet, portraying the moment when the guilt of Claudius is revealed. ...

He was ahead of his time in many ways, advocating the importance to children of relaxation, games and a knowledge of the countryside and world of nature. He, “wished that schools were planted in the suburbs of towns near to the fields.” He was also, “tooth and nail for womankind” in matters of education; although as a man of his time he believed that education should fit women for their appropriate station.

Being in the City of London and having pupils from a wide range of backgrounds, the school experienced many of the social, political and economic events at first hand and its masters sometimes became embroiled in them.

One recurring event was plague which had a damaging effect on the school and its pupils. When the plague appeared, as in 1592, 1603, 1626, 1630, 1637 and 1666, the school was obliged to break up, it may have lost pupils and was sometimes unable to take on new ones. The headmaster, Nicholas Gray, in 1626 complained of the loss of pupils and was given £20 to keep the school going; in 1630 he was given £40. Many parents kept their sons away from school and boarders were summoned home. Yersinia pestis seen at 2000x magnification. ... Events January 30 - The death of Pope Innocent IX during the previous year had left the Papal throne vacant. ... King James I of England/VII of Scotland, the first monarch to rule the Kingdoms of England and Scotland at the same time Events March - Samuel de Champlain, French explorer, sails to Canada March 24 - Elizabeth I of England dies and is succeeded by her cousin King James I of... Events September 30 - Nurhaci, chieftain of the Jurchens and founder of the Qing Dynasty dies and is succeeded by his son Hong Taiji. ... Events February 22 - Native American Quadequine introduces Popcorn to English colonists. ... Events February 3 - Tulipmania collapses in Netherlands by government order February 15 - Ferdinand III becomes Holy Roman Emperor December 17 - Shimabara Rebellion erupts in Japan Pierre de Fermat makes a marginal claim to have proof of what would become known as Fermats last theorem. ... Events September 2 - Great Fire of London: A large fire breaks out in London in the house of Charles IIs baker on Pudding Lane near London Bridge. ...

The school was closed for at least a year 1n 1636 and 1637 with no new boys admitted until the contagion abated. The outbreak of 1666 was curtailed by the Great Fire of London which started on 2 September close to Suffolk Lane and completely destroyed the school buildings. London, as it appeared from Bankside, Southwark, During the Great Fire — Derived from a Print of the Period by Visscher The Great Fire of London was a major conflagration that swept through the City of London from September 2 to September 5, 1666, and resulted more or less in the... September 2 is the 245th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (246th in leap years). ...

In the aftermath of the fire, the headmaster and ushers gathered what pupils they could and carried on the work of the school in temporary accommodation in Kentish Town. In 1672 the school had just 155 pupils on roll but by 1675 it was rebuilt on the same site and reopened. The headmaster of this time, John Goad, was a tower of strength to the school and its pupils but in 1681 he was dismissed for alleged sympathy with Catholic doctrines. Kentish Town is a place in London in the London Borough of Camden. ... Events England, France, Munster and Cologne invade the United Provinces, therefore this name is know as ´het rampjaar´ (the disaster year) in the Netherlands. ... Events January 5 - The Battle of Turckeim June 18 - Battle of Fehrbellin August 10 - King Charles II of England places the foundation stone of the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London - construction begins November 11 - Guru Gobind Singh becomes the Tenth Guru of the Sikhs. ... Events March 4 - Charles II of England grants a land charter to William Penn for the area that will later become Pennsylvania. ...

1606 - 1633

In 1606 a member of the Company called Robert Dow instigated the process of 'probation ' or inspection whereby the Court would visit the school three times each year and observe the school at work. Dow was concerned that the school was not meeting the challenge of being one of the great schools of the time and needed regular inspection to maintain and raise its standards. The Court appointed a committee to investigate and concluded: Events January 27 - The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begins ending in their execution on January 31 May 17 - Supporters of Vasili Shusky invade the Kremlin and kill Premier Dmitri December 26 - Shakespeares King Lear performed in court Storm buries a village of St Ismails near...

'Being situate neere the middest of this honourable and renowned citty is famous throughout all England ...First, for number of schollers, it is the greateste schoole included under one roofe. Secondly, the schollers are taught jointly by one master and three ushers. Thirdly it is a schoole for liberty most free, being open especially for poore mens children, as well of all nations, as for the merchauntailors themselves '.

The probation was imposed without consultation with the schoolmasters. During the probation, the headmaster was required to open his copy of Cicero at random and read out a passage to the Sixth form. The boys had to copy the passage from dictation and then translate it, first into English, then into Greek and then into Latin verse. After this, they had to write a passage of Latin and some verses on some topic chosen for the day. This was for the morning - in the afternoon the process was repeated in Greek, based on the Greek Testament, Aesop's Fables, "or some other very easie Greeke author". The standard in Greek was not as high as in Latin but Hebrew was also taught. Marcus Tullius Cicero (IPA: ;) (January 3, 106 BC – December 7, 43 BC) was an orator and statesman of Ancient Rome, and is generally considered the greatest Latin orator and prose stylist. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ... Aesops Fables or Aesopica refers to a collection of fables credited to Aesop (circa 620 BC – 560 BC), a slave and story-teller living in Ancient Greece. ... Hebrew (עִבְרִית ‘Ivrit) is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family spoken by more than seven million people in Israel and Jewish communities around the world. ...

This form of inspection was also the model for teaching every day of the school year, there being no mathematics or science in the curriculum. The pattern of teaching seen in the Probations at MTS was described in a popular work published in 1660, A New Discovery of the Art of Teaching Schoole by Charles Hoole. Points made by Hoole which give a guide to the nature of education at this time include: Events Expulsion of the Carib indigenous people from Martinique by French occupying forces. ...

• 6.00 a.m. was considered the time for children to start their studies but 7.00 a.m. was more common
• Pupils of upper forms were appointed to give lessons to younger ones
• Pupils were required to examine each other in pairs
• Children frequently went to 'Writing-schooles' at the end of the school day, the purpose of which was to 'learn a good hand'. Good handwriting was supposed to be a condition of entry to a school like MTS but Hayne for one tended to ignore it and was eventually dismissed for, among other things, low standards of hand writing. In Germany at this time there were Writing Schools too and many citizens attended only these in order to learn sufficient skills for commerce and trade; English businessmen founded schools which encouraged an academic curriculum based on the classics.

The headmaster William Hayne (1599-1624) presided over these new methods of examination but his success here did not save him from dismissal for purported financial misdemeanours including the selling of text books to pupils for profit, and receiving gifts of money at the end of term and on Shrove Tuesday when the 'Victory Penny' might be presented by pupils. Events The Jesuit educational plan known as the Ratio Studiorum is issued (January 8). ... Events January 24 - Alfonso Mendez, appointed by Pope Gregory XV as Prelate of Ethiopia, arrives at Massawa from Goa. ... A typical meal of pancakes In the Christian calendar, Shrove Tuesday is the English name for the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday, which in turn marks the beginning of Lent. ...

1634 - 1685

William Staple (headmaster 1634-1644) fell victim to contemporary politics. In October 1643 Parliament ordered 'That the Committee for plundered Ministers shall have power to enquire after malignant School-masters'. In March 1644 Staple was ordered to appear before this committee but as a royalist he had no intention of so doing and he was subsequently dismissed, forcing the Company to seek a new headmaster. Events Moses Amyrauts Traite de la predestination is published Curaçao captured by the Dutch Treaty of Polianovska First meeting of the Académie française The witchcraft affair at Loudun Jean Nicolet lands at Green Bay, Wisconsin Opening of Covent Garden Market in London English establish a settlement... // Events February to August - Explorer Abel Tasmans second expedition for the Dutch East India Company maps the north coast of Australia. ... // Events January 21 - Abel Tasman discovers Tonga February 6 - Abel Tasman discovers the Fiji islands. ... // Events February to August - Explorer Abel Tasmans second expedition for the Dutch East India Company maps the north coast of Australia. ...

The next headmaster William Dugard (1644-1661) also ran into trouble when in 1649 he acquired a printing press and published a pamphlet by Claudius Salmasius, a continental sympathiser with Charles I, entitled Defensio Regia pro Carolo Primo. Dugard was arrested and imprisoned but the pamphlet was not actually published and his cousin Sir James Harrington was able to exert sufficient influence to have him released. // Events February to August - Explorer Abel Tasmans second expedition for the Dutch East India Company maps the north coast of Australia. ... Events January 6 - The fifth monarchy men unsuccessfully attempt to seize control of London. ... // Events January 30 - King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland is beheaded. ... Claudius Salmasius is the Latin name of Claude Saumaise (April 15, 1588 - September 3, 1653), a French classical scholar. ... Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649) was King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649. ...

In 1647 Dugard had been appointed a member of the Stationers' Company but he did not declare his interests to the Court and they were most annoyed at this extra-curricular activity. In 1652, a puritanical and intolerant time, Dugard again put his head above the parapet with his publication of Catechesis Ecclesiarum Poloniae et Lithuaniae, which you may gather from the title was not written in praise of Luther, Cromwell or Protestantism. The work was seized and publicly burned yet Dugard once again survived as headmaster, requiring only that he should give up his printing enterprise. // Events March 14 - Thirty Years War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm. ... The Worshipful Company of Stationers, now known as the Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers. ... // Events April 6 - Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp for the Dutch East India Company at the Cape of Good Hope, and founded Cape Town. ... Luther at age 46 (Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1529) The Luther seal Martin Luther (November 10, 1483 – February 18, 1546) was a German monk, [1] priest, professor, theologian, and church reformer, whose teachings inspired the Reformation and deeply influenced the doctrines and culture of the Lutheran and Protestant traditions. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Protestantism is a movement within Christianity, representing the splitting away from the Roman Catholic Church during the mid-to-late Renaissance in Europe—a period known as the Protestant Reformation. ...

At this time the school fees were set at 2s2 or 5s (£0.11 or £0.25) per quarter or nothing but Dugard charged a variety of amounts and the number of pupils was down on the 250 expected by the Company. When he left in 1661 he set up a new school in Coleman Street and took a number of MTS pupils with him. Events January 6 - The fifth monarchy men unsuccessfully attempt to seize control of London. ...

The dismissal of John Goad may have been strongly influenced by the accusations of Titus Oates who was a pupil at MTS for a few months in 1665-66. Oates had similarly brief stays at other schools, being dismissed from each in turn. In 1678 Oates 'discovered ' the 'Popish Plot' which was supposed to include a threat to kill Charles II but was later found to be a hoax dreamed up by Oates. William Smith, a master at MTS and later headmaster at the Brewers' School in Islington, writes of his first encounter with Oates thus: Events March 4 - Start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War. ... Events September 2 - Great Fire of London: A large fire breaks out in London in the house of Charles IIs baker on Pudding Lane near London Bridge. ... Events August 10 - Treaty of Nijmegen ends the Dutch War. ... The Popish Plot was an alleged Catholic conspiracy. ... Charles II (29 May 1630 – 6 February 1685) was the King of England, King of Scots, and King of Ireland from 30 January 1649 (de jure) or 29 May 1660 (de facto) until his death. ...

'In the year 1664 he was brought to Merchant Taylors' School, as a free Schollar, by Nicholas Delves, Esq., now living; he happening to be in Books that were taught in my Form, I was sent down to receive him into the School, which I did in an unlucky hour. And truly, the first trick he played me was That he cheated me of our Entrance Money which his father sent me, which the Doctor generously confessed in his Greatness at Whitehall and very Honestly paid me then.' Events March 12 - New Jersey becomes a colony of England. ...

In 1676 Oates caught up with Smith and accused him of involvement in another imaginary plot so the latter was obliged to commit perjury to escape punishment. In the MTS Probation Book Oates was initially listed as 'The saviour of the nation, first discoverer of ye damnable Popish Plot in 1678; in 1685 a postscript was added: 'Perjurd upon Record and a Scoundrell Fellow'. In this suspicious climate just a whiff of Romanism was enough to condemn a man like Goad. After his dismissal Goad became a member of the Roman Catholic Church. Events January 29 - Feodor III becomes Tsar of Russia First measurement of the speed of light, by Ole Rømer Bacons Rebellion Russo-Turkish Wars commence. ... Events August 10 - Treaty of Nijmegen ends the Dutch War. ... Events February 6 - James Stuart, Duke of York becomes King James II of England and Ireland and King James VII of Scotland. ...

1686 - 1759

The headmastership fell vacant again in 1686 whereon King James II tried to force his nominee James Lee on the Company. The election was postponed and the Master, Sir William Dodson, persuaded James to withdraw his nomination. James Lee, formerly second usher at MTS and then headmaster at St Saviour's Free School, Southwark, then stood against Ambrose Bonwicke but lost. Bonwicke, OMT, was a former pupil of Goad and had an acute mind but he too suffered dismissal for his sentiments. Events The League of Augsburg is founded. ... James II of England and VII of Scotland (14 October 1633–16 September 1701) became King of England, King of Scots, and King of Ireland on 6 February 1685. ... The Borough or Southwark is an area of the London Borough of Southwark situated 1. ...

James abdicated in 1688, William and Mary acceded and men were obliged once again to proclaim their loyalties. The majority avoided controversy by swearing allegiance to 'the king', whoever he may be, but Bonwicke was more scrupulous and delayed for a year before the Court was forced by Act of Parliament to hear his oath of allegiance. Bonwicke declared himself a supporter of James and was duly dismissed. // Events A high-powered conspiracy of notables, the Immortal Seven, invite William and Mary to depose James II of England. ... Double portrait to commemorate the bethrothal of William and Mary, by Anthony van Dyck The phrase William and Mary usually refers to the joint sovereignty over the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland of King William III and his wife Queen Mary II. Their joint reign began in... States currently utilizing parliamentary systems are denoted in orange and red—the former being constitutional monarchies where authority is vested in a parliament, and the latter being parliamentary republics whose parliaments are effectively supreme over a separate head of state. ...

Under Mat thew Shortyng, headmaster 1691-1707, the top boys of the Sixth began to be called 'The Table' and 'The Bench', with nine at the Table, the captain and eight monitors, and nine at the Bench, called prompters because they prompted the monitors on election day. Events March 5 - French troops under Marshal Louis-Francois de Boufflers besiege the Spanish-held town of Mons March 20 - Leislers Rebellion - New governor arrives in New York - Jacob Leisler surrenders after standoff of several hours March 29 - Siege of Mons ends to the city’s surrender May 6... Events January 1 - John V is crowned King of Portugal April 25 - Allied army is defeated by Bourbonic army at Almansa (Spain) in the War of the Spanish Succession. ...

In 1710 Ambrose Bonwicke, son of the former headmaster, was captain of the school and refused to read prayers for King William on St Barnabas Day. Despite his intellectual prowess, his family's continuing support for James cost him his election to St. John's College Oxford and he went to St. John's College, Cambridge instead. At this time there was a shortage of places at the school as its reputation for scholarship and consequent chance of a university education attracted parents from all over the country. In 1750 a regulation was passed that boys should not be eligible for election to St. John's Oxford unless they had been in the school for at least three years. // Events April 10 - The worlds first copyright legislation became effective, Britains Statute of Anne Ongoing events Great Northern War (1700-1721) War of the Spanish Succession (1702-1713) Births January 3 - Richard Gridley, American Revolutionary soldier (d. ... Barnabas was an early Christian mentioned in the New Testament. ... St Johns College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. ... The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford in England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... Full name The College of Saint John the Evangelist of the University of Cambridge Motto - Named after The Hospital of Saint John the Evangelist, Cambridge, named after John the Evangelist Previous names - Established 1511 Sister College Balliol College Master Prof. ... The University of Cambridge (often called Cambridge University), located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... Events March 2 - Small earthquake in London, England April 4 - Small earthquake in Warrington, England August 23 - Small earthquake in Spalding, England September 30 - Small earthquake in Northampton, England November 16 – Westminster Bridge officially opened Jonas Hanway is the first Englishman to use an umbrella James Gray reveals her sex...

One pupil who would not have qualified for election under this rule was Robert Clive, a pupil from 1738-1739 who completed his education at Shrewsbury in his native Shropshire. The headmaster at this time was John Criche, OMT, a man who had occupied every position in the school and was not predisposed to change it. Criche was also a Jacobite and the school suffered because parents were unwilling to send their sons to a school where anti-dynastic sentiments might prevail. He died in office at the age of 80 and by then the school numbers had fallen from 244 to 116. Events February 4 - Court Jew Joseph Suss Oppenheimer is executed in Württenberg April 15 - Premiere in London of Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel. ... Events January 1 - Bouvet Island is discovered by French explorer Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier. ... Shrewsbury (pronounced either /ˈʃɹuːzbɹiː/ or /ˈʃɹəʊzbɹiː/) is a town of 70,059 [1] in Shropshire, England. ... Shropshire (abbreviated Salop or Shrops) is a traditional, ceremonial and administrative county in the West Midlands region of England. ... Charles Edward Stuart, Bonnie Prince Charlie, wearing the Jacobite blue bonnet Jacobitism was (and, to a very limited extent, is) the political movement dedicated to the restoration of the Stuart kings to the thrones of England and Scotland (including after 1707,when the de facto government deemed those thrones to...

1760 - 1813

The next headmaster, James Townley, OMT, was in office from 1760 to 1768. Criche's financial situation before him had become desperate which explained his continuance in office into his 80th year and the Company duly raised the headmaster's salary from £10 to £100. Salaries were at this time boosted by 'capitation grants' so Criche suffered badly while a more successful headmaster could do rather better. Townley had worked at Christ's Hospital School which had the Royal Mathematical School and included mathematics in its curriculum. He therefore proposed the introduction of mathematics at MTS in 1760 but the Court deferred consideration and subsequently dropped the matter. Townley did succeed, however, in introducing Geography to the curriculum. Like Mulcaster and numerous pupils before him Townley was keen on the stage and in 1762 proposed the staging of a Latin play at the school, partly to regain some interest in the school which had waned in the last year's of Criche's headmastership . Townley wrote a successful play, High Life Below Stairs, which was staged at Drury Lane by David Garrick and proved very popular. The identity of the author was kept secret and most assumed it was written by Garrick rather than a schoolmaster. 1760 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1768 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Christs Hospitals buildings in London in 1770. ... Euclid, detail from The School of Athens by Raphael. ... 1760 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1762 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Drury Lane is a street in the Covent Garden area of London, running between Aldwych and High Holborn. ... Portrait of David Garrick David Garrick (February 19, 1717 – January 20, 1779) was an English actor, dramatist, theatrical producer and theatrical manager, and a friend and pupil of Samuel Johnson. ...

Schools in the 18th century were not generally in good shape, with understaffing leading to poor teaching, brutal enforcement of discipline, lack of supervision outside school and self-government by the pupils. The London schools were more successful in retaining numbers but apart from Christ's Hospital and Westminster none changed its curriculum and classics reigned supreme until the mid 19th century. As Gibbon wrote: 'A finished scholar may emerge from the head of Westminster or Eton in total ignorance of the business and conversation of English gentlemen in the latter end of the 18th century.' (17th century - 18th century - 19th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 18th century refers to the century that lasted from 1701 through 1800. ... Westminster is a district within the City of Westminster in London. ... Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The next three headmasters over the period 1778-1819, Green, Bishop and Cherry were all OMTs. One of Bishop's pupils, Charles Matthews, went on to become a successful actor. His memoirs, from the late 18th century, include these observations: 1778 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1819 common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...

'I was now translated from Dominie the flagellator's garden of knowledge in St Martin-in-the-Fields to Merchant Tailors' School, to gain what Pope so aptly terms 'a dangerous thing', a little learning. This was about the year 1786. Bishop, the head master, wore a huge powdered wig, larger than any other bishop's wig. It invited invasion, and we shot paper darts with such singular dexterity into the protruding bush behind that it looked like 'a fretful porcupine'. He had chalkstone knuckles too, which he used to rap on my head like a bag of marbles, and, eccentric as it may appear, pinching was his favourite amusement, which he brought to great perfection. St Martin-in-the-Fields, London Interior of St Martin-in-the-Fields St Martin-in-the-Fields and Charing Cross, circa 1562 The ceiling of the café in the crypt St. ... 1786 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Genera Family Erethizontidae Coendou Sphiggurus Erethizon Echinoprocta Chaetomys Family Hystricidae Atherurus Hystrix Thecurus Trichys Porcupines are rodents best known for their coat of sharp spines, or quills, that defend them from predators. ...

There were six forms. I entered the school at the lowest, and got no higher than the fifth, but was of course alternately under the care and tuition of the four masters. Gardner, the lowest in the grade, was the only mild person amongst them; the others had a little too much, and perhaps he had much too little, of the severe in him for his station.

Two more cruel tyrants than Bishop and Rose never existed... Lord, the fourth master, was rather an invalid, and, I believe, had been prescribed gentle exercise; he therefore put up for, and was the successful candidate for, the flogging department. Rose was so adept at the cane, that I once saw a boy strip, after a thrashing from him, that he might expose his barbarous cruelty, when the back was actually striped with dark streaks like a zebra. Whipping on a post Flagellation is the act of whipping (Latin flagellum, whip) the human body. ... Species Equus zebra Equus quagga Equus hartmannae Equus grevyi Zebras (members of the Horse family), are native to central and southern Africa. ...

Bishop's wife claimed that the headmaster 'avoided all unnecessary severity' and 'there was no revolt or riot during the whole time of his continuance at the school '. It is more than likely that Matthews' account is true for there were at the beginning of the 19th century a number of rebellions in schools, some of which had to be put down by troops - at Westminster in 1791, 1801 and 1820, at Eton in 1768, 1783, 1810 and 1818, at Harrow in 1805 and 1808, at Winchester in 1770, 1774, 1778, 1793 and 1818, at Rugby in 1786, 1797, 1822, and at Charterhouse and Shrewsbury in 1818 - which left only St. Paul's riot-less from the so-called 'Great Nine' of the Clarendon Commission of the 1860s. 1791 (MDCCXCI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 11-day-slower Julian calendar). ... The Union Jack, flag of the newly formed United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. ... 1820 was a leap year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 1768 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1783 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1810 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1818 (MDCCCXVIII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar. ... Harrow School Crest Harrow School is a British public school, located in Harrow on the Hill in North West London. ... 1805 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1808 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1770 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1774 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 1778 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1793 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1818 (MDCCCXVIII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar. ... A view of Rugby School from the rear, including the playing field, where according to legend Rugby was invented Rugby School, located in the town of Rugby in Warwickshire, is one of the oldest public schools in the United Kingdom and is perhaps one of the top co-educational boarding... 1786 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1797 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1822 (MDCCCXXII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Charterhouse School is a British public school, located in Godalming in the county of Surrey. ... 1818 (MDCCCXVIII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar. ... // Events and trends Technology The First Transcontinental Railroad in the United States is built in the six year period between 1863 and 1869. ...

This behaviour may have been influenced by the French Revolution and the Gordon Riots in London in June 1780. (The Gordon Riots were fomented by Lord George Gordon following the Catholic Relief Act of 1778 which lifted some restrictions on British Catholics and angered fanatical Protestants.) In 1796 two pupils at MTS, John Grose and Richard Hayward, were expelled for hoisting a French tricolour over the Tower of London and for writing anti-dynastic graffiti on the walls near Suffolk Lane. On 11th April 1811 there was a pitched battle between boys of St. Paul's and Merchant Taylors' in Old Change at the western end of Cheapside as the boys met on their way to school. On the building of the City of London School in Honeylane Market, Cheapside, frequent fights took place between the pupils of that school and M.T.S. Liberty Leading the People, a painting by Delacroix commemorating the July Revolution of 1830 but which has come to be generally accepted as symbolic of French popular uprisings against the monarchy in general and the French Revolution in particular. ... The Gordon Riots is a term used to refer to a number of events in a predominantly Protestant religious uprising in London aimed against the Roman Catholic Relief Act, 1778, relieving his Majestys subjects, of the Catholic Religion, from certain penalties and disabilities imposed upon them during the reign... 1780 was a leap year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Lord George Gordon (26 December 1751 - 12 November 1793), third and youngest son of Cosmo George, duke of Gordon, was an eccentric politician. ... 1778 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1796 was a leap year starting on Friday. ... For the film with this title, see Tower of London (1939 film). ... For other uses, see Graffiti (disambiguation). ... (Redirected from 11th April) April 11 is the 101st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (102nd in leap years). ... Joyce Rollins is a lesbian. ... A view of Cheapside published in 1837. ...

1814 - 1844

In 1814 Cherry made a detailed proposal for the setting up of an arithmetic and writing school and for the teaching of mathematics and accounts. Again the proposal was first deferred and then dropped. It was to be a further 15 years before mathematics was finally admitted into the school curriculum. In 1811 H.B. Wilson was granted permission to write a history of the school but he was overlooked as headmaster in 1819 on the appointment of James Bellamy, OMT, headmaster 1819-45. In 1828 Bellamy advised the Company of the need to modernise to 'meet the daily increasing demand for a more general education', by which he meant in particular the founding of University College and King's College at the University of London. In 1830 education was as topical as it is today with writers like Christopher North advocating its spread, though fearful of the consequences, 'from the classes to the masses'. The Court voted £200 towards the founding of King's College and in 1829 Bellamy once again pleaded that the school be placed on the same level as other places of education. Beginning in 1830 classics was taught in the morning and mathematics in the afternoon, specialist teachers were appointed and by 1845 French was being considered for two afternoons per week . The last proposal proved too expensive but the further success of the school began to make it clear that the current premises were too small and new ones should be found. 1814 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Joyce Rollins is a lesbian. ... 1819 common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1819 common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1845 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1828 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix commemorates the July Revolution 1830 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... John Wilson (May 18, 1785 - April 3, 1854) was a Scottish writer, the Christopher North of Blackwoods Magazine. ... There are a number of institutions known as Kings College: Kings College London, a college of the University of London Kings College, Aberdeen, a college in Aberdeen, Scotland Kings College, Cambridge, a constituent college of the University of Cambridge Kings College a private boarding secondary... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1829 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix commemorates the July Revolution 1830 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1845 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...

Still, in the 1870s, Sir D'Arcy Power comments on the curriculum he faced: 'It seems to me, as I look back on the education at school in my time, that it was conducted with the design of giving a broad training without any utilitarian object. Every boy gained a sound knowledge of the classics, could write a little Latin and Greek prose and make a few verses; if he reached the higher forms, he learnt at least the Hebrew alphabet, but every boy was passed through the same mould without discrimination, no attempt was made to find out what his special aptitude might be. The best boys got on through sheer ability... The vast majority of boys went as stockbrokers' clerks, into merchants' offices or into business.' // Events and Trends Technology The invention of the telephone (1876) by Alexander Graham Bell. ...

Nor was there much teaching of English. Bishop Samuel Thornton wrote: 'Incredible as it may seem, we were left to pick up our acquaintance with the classics of our own language out of school, as best we could. I read my English poets in the street as I walked from school.' He adds however: 'In what was professedly taught there was instilled (and this is my deepest debt to Merchant Taylors') a passion for thoroughness and accuracy, and a contempt for all smatteriness and mere pretence of knowledge '. It is likely that many parents cared little what was taught as long as their boys did well enough to attain a scholarship to university.

The city environment around it included a brewery which belched smoke and soot and a printing works whose apprentices fought with M.T.S. boys almost daily. According to the Rev. A. J. Church in 1857: 'there were no desks in the schoolroom. The monitors had a table; the prompters had a bench. Everyone else had to write, when there was occasion for writing, on his knees. And there were no lights. Every boy had to supply his own candle, which was required to be of wax... 1857 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...

For more than two centuries the only place where teaching was carried on was the Great Schoolroom; its dimensions were about 85 feet by 30 feet. It as lighted very imperfectly by windows on either side, large enough, indeed, but obscured by the heavy leading of the diamond panes and by the long-standing accumulations of dirt ... The four classrooms were all more or less recent additions to the school accommodation . Bishop Samuel Thornton remembered the London fogs of his schooldays in the 1840s when 'little was done on those dark days, the dreamy and unwonted state of affairs generating an excited condition in the Forms, unfavourable to discipline and work '. There was also a constant din from outside the school which interfered greatly with the conduct of lessons. Until the 1860s no provision was made for feeding the boys at lunch time. In 1838 there were 58 boys in the Fourth, being taught in this room and without gas lighting - small wonder that the masters resorted to the stick to keep control. // Events and Trends Technology First use of general anesthesia in an operation, by Crawford Long The first electrical telegraph sent by Samuel Morse on May 24, 1844 from Baltimore to Washington, D.C.. War, peace and politics First signing of the Treaty of Waitangi (Te Tiriti o Waitangi) on February... // Events and trends Technology The First Transcontinental Railroad in the United States is built in the six year period between 1863 and 1869. ... | Jöns Jakob Berzelius, discoverer of protein 1838 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...

1845 - 1865

James Hessey, headmaster from 1845 to 1870, improved many aspects of the school, increasing the number of masters, introducing school lunches and appointing a 'superior' teacher of mathematics. The rough practices of among the boys 'pulling' on clothes and 'bumping' against the pillars of the cloisters were banned, something which at first caused open rebellion among the younger boys but in which Hessey had his way by his firm insistence on more civilised behaviour. Hessey was also agitating for a change of location. Two Commissions of this time, the Oxford Commission and the Public Schools Commission (under Lord Clarendon), threatened the well-being of the school. The Oxford Commission restructured the arrangements for scholarships between the school and St. John's College so there was no longer such an easy path for boys to reach university. There had grown a general feeling that all was not well with Eton and other 'public' schools and the Commission was appointed to investigate and put this right. The Schools Commission visited M.T.S. in 1862 and published its report in 1864. It was noted that parents were increasingly reluctant to send their sons to school in London due to the overcrowding, the lack of games facilities and increasing accessibility to country schools. It was proposed that Charterhouse and Westminster, boarding schools, should move out of London and that Merchant Taylors' and St. Paul's, day schools, should increase their premises. It was also recommended that, while the classical character of the curriculum should be continued, science, German, music and more drawing should be introduced. 1845 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1870 (MDCCCLXX) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ... The title Earl of Clarendon was created in 1776 for Thomas Villiers. ... 1862 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1864 (MDCCCLXIV) was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a leap year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ...

1866 - 1907

In 1866, following reasoned argument from Hessey and the report of the Commission, the Company bought five and a half acres (22,000 m²) of estate in Goswell Street for £90,000 from the Governors of the Charterhouse. Building of the new school began in 1873 and was completed in 1875. Plans for the new school included immediate expansion to 350 and thence to 500, the development of a more modern curriculum to meet demand for 'Modern Languages, Science and Commerce', and the raising of fees from 10 to 12 guineas for the lower school and 12 guineas to 15 guineas for the upper. William Baker, OMT, headmaster from 1870-1900, wanted to develop the whole of the new site for games, 'to foster a corporate and public spirit among the boys of the School, by drawing them together in common amusements and giving them common interests'. On the development of playing fields around the school Baker wrote in 1872: 'Besides this, I regard such an arrangement as desirable for the healthy development of a boy's character and as furnishing a wholesome corrective to the narrowing effects of excessive competition'. These ideas were not radical for this time but they were fairly new and perhaps surprising from a venerable institution like Merchant Taylors' School. Baker was conservative in his views, considering the classics as the best means of training the mind but he was almost equally keen on mathematics and paid much attention to its development in the school. Also in his time chemistry and physics were introduced and a new science building was finished in 1891. Dr. Baker proposed the introduction of biology which was introduced as an extra in 1900. 1866 (MDCCCLXVI) is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ... 1873 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calaber). ... 1875 (MDCCCLXXV) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Commerce is the trading of something of value between two entities. ... 1870 (MDCCCLXX) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ... 1900 (MCM) was an exceptional common year starting on Monday. ... 1872 (MDCCCLXXII) was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a leap year starting on Wednesday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ... Chemistry (derived from alchemy) is the science of matter at or near the atomic scale. ... Physics is the Science of Nature The word Physics comes from the Greek, φύσις (physis) which means nature (or from its adjective form φυσικός (physikos) meaning natural) The deepest visible-light image of the universe, the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. ... 1891 (MDCCCXCI) was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Biology is the branch of science dealing with the study of life. ... 1900 (MCM) was an exceptional common year starting on Monday. ...

French was still in a precarious position within the school curriculum - from a total of 3900 marks (from 78 scripts worth 50 marks each) in an examination in 1874 only 123 marks were actually scored and 53 boys submitted blank papers. The master in charge of the 'Modern Side' pointed out that boys joined his area not because they showed promise in French but because they had no obvious gift for the classics. On the appointment of John Nairn in 1900 to succeed Dr. Baker the new headmaster asked Professor Ernest Weekly to inspect the modern language teaching. He drew attention to the dominant role of Latin in determining a boy's promotion, to the beginning of Greek at too young an age and to the lack of systematic instruction in English . Meanwhile, Dr. Baker recommended the adoption of the newly established Oxford and Cambridge Schools Examination Board for examination of higher work which for the first time provided a means for comparison between schools. Until this point schools could differ considerably in the ways they assessed pupils and conducted their affairs; today we take for granted the existence of national standards and criteria and the use of public examination results to compare one school, however invidiously, against another. 1874 (MDCCCLXXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1900 (MCM) was an exceptional common year starting on Monday. ...

In the early 1900s the number of boys at the school began to fall, due in part to the rise of good and not too expensive schools in the country around London such as Bedford Grammar, Berkhamstead, Tonbridge, University College School, King's College School, St. Dunstans, St Olave's and Latymer Upper School, amongst others. Science and technical subjects were being developed in institutions funded by public money and there was some pressure on the incomes of the class that sent its sons to schools like Merchant Taylors'. It became increasingly apparent that boys were travelling long distances to school each day, from as far as Hertford, Guildford and Leigh-on -Sea, the school needed a prep. school for boys aged 8-11 and a sports ground nearer than Bellingham. Nairn began to think that the school might be better placed on the outskirts of London. In 1914 the Oxford and Cambridge School Examination Board inspected the school and, amongst their conclusions, found the hours of the school too short and the homeworks too long, all of which limited their time for fresh air and recreation. The Board also said that the curriculum was too narrow, that the needs of a few potential classical scholars were dominating the needs of the many. Even at this stage the only education in English teaching was gained from the translation of Latin and Greek. In the 1860s the school had been 'one of the nine' but its position was declining annually in the face of competition. In 1925 the matter of the school's location was raised again but any suggestion that it should be moved was vetoed by the School Committee. // Events and Trends Technology First flight by the Wright brothers, December 17, 1903. ... Arms of Berkhamstead Town Council Berkhamsted (since 1937, former spellings include Berkhampstead, or Berkhamstead, and also known colloquially as Berko) is a historic town of some 19,000 people, situated in the west of Hertfordshire, to the north-west of London, UK. It is in the administrative district of Dacorum. ... Tonbridge is a market town in the English county of Kent, with a population of 31,600 in 2001. ... University College School entrance, Frognal, Hampstead University College School, known generally as UCS, is a British independent school situated in Hampstead, northwest London. ... Kings College School, Wimbledon Kings College School Wimbledon, or KCS, is a public school in Wimbledon, a town in South West London. ... St Olaves Grammar School St. ... Latymer Upper School is a independent school in London, England. ... Hertford (Hartford or, in local pronunciation, /[h]ɑːʔֽfəd/) is the county town of Hertfordshire, England, and is in the East Hertfordshire district of that county. ... Guildford is the county town of Surrey, England, as well as the seat for the borough of Guildford and the administrative headquarters of the South East England region. ... Bellingham is the name of some places: Bellingham, London, an electoral ward in England Bellingham, Northumberland, a village in England Bellingham, Massachusetts, population 22,734, a town in The United States of America Bellingham, Minnesota, population 191, a city in The United States of America Bellingham, Washington, population 73,469... 1914 (MCMXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... // Events and trends Technology The First Transcontinental Railroad in the United States is built in the six year period between 1863 and 1869. ... 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ...

1908 - 1933

In 1908 Lord Haldane reorganised school cadet corps, making them into a single body, the Officer Training Corps, which provided an essential source of officers for the First World War. In 1912 the London Rifle Brigade was permitted to billet three companies in the school and when war came the regiment was billeted there. The Old Merchant Taylors held a meeting at the Hall and 200 enlisted forthwith. In 1918 enlistment in the O.T.C. became compulsory and in 1921 a house system was introduced with four houses named Hilles, White, Spenser and Clive. 1908 (MCMVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Officers Training Corps (OTC) is a part of the British Army that provides military training to students at British universities. ... Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ... 1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday in the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... 1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ... 1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...

The next headmaster, Spencer Leeson, served for just nine years but in that time he proposed and supervised what was probably the greatest single event in the history of the school, the movement from the city of London to the green suburbs of Northwood, Watford and Rickmansworth, an area bounded by branches of the Metropolitan Railway Company. Many of the pupils of the school in the city now came from north London and the movement of the school was perhaps a case of Mohammed going to the mountain. Leeson made his mind up quickly and advised a move and the Company fell quickly behind him. He invited an inspection by the Board of Education in 1928 and concluded from their report that the school must move: 'At Charterhouse Square we can never rejoin the number of the great schools of England'. He attached a letter from Cyril Norwood which included these words: Watford is a town and district (styled as a borough due to the historical charter granted by Henry VIII) in Hertfordshire located 15. ... Rickmansworth is a town in the Three Rivers district of Hertfordshire, England. ... 1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...

'In these next twenty years we shall see a belt of good secondary schools built all round London at a sufficient distance out to provide playing fields and space, and with all that is modern in equipment. These schools will be efficient and the middle class parent will send his sons either to boarding schools, if he can afford it, or to these schools. He will not send them to the noise and congestion of London, to premises which are congested and largely out of date, with playing fields miles away from the teaching centre...'

The site at Sandy Lodge was bought in late 1929 and plans were drawn up for the new school. The cost of the initial proposals was greeted with some dismay but the Court eventually accepted them. The site at Charterhouse Square was sold to St. Bartholomew's Hospital who had been previous owners, having bought the site in 1349 from the Master of the Spital Croft hospital. Both the senior partner of the architects chosen to design the new school and the prime mover of the Charterhouse sale to Bart's were O.M.T.s The move to Sandy Lodge was completed in March 1933 and the school was formally opened on June 12. 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The main entrance at Barts, which was built in 1702. ... // Events January 9 - The Jewish population of Basel, Switzerland is rounded up and incinerated, believed by the residents to be the cause of the ongoing bubonic plague. ... 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... June 12 is the 163rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (164th in leap years), with 202 days remaining. ...

Present day

The school continues to accept pupils based upon an entrance examination, sat when an applicant is either 11, 13 or 16. Over the years it has enjoyed high levels of academic success, most recently in 2005 succeeding in a 100% pass rate in all A Level examinations for the fourth year running and, at GCSE, 46.6% of exams taken received A* grades. The school was also praised in an inspection carried out in the autumn of 2002. Inspectors described it as "an excellent School with notable strengths in many areas". In 2004 Jon Gabitass was replaced by Stephen Wright as headmaster of the school. The A-level, short for Advanced Level, is a General Certificate of Education qualification, usually taken by students in the final two years of secondary education (after GCSEs). ... GCSE is an acronym that can refer to: General Certificate of Secondary Education global common subexpression elimination - an optimisation technique used by some compilers This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The school, however, does not forget its past roots. The members of the Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors visit the school on occasion - most notably on Speech Day and Doctor's Day, the final day of the autumn term. At each, the Master of the company addresses the school and the teachers. The Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. ...

The school itself is a vibrant and active community. Many organisations are run within the school by pupils with the support of the teachers. These include school magazines ("Third Dimension", "Eclipse" and "The Sixth Estate") and religious groups ("J-soc" (Jewish Society) and "Christian Focus") but organisations from outside the school, such as Amnesty International, are also represented. Eclipse is the official Middle School magazine of Merchant Taylors School, Northwood, one of the nine great public schools in the UK. Founded in 1997 by Zain Naz and Mr. ... Amnesty International logo Amnesty International (commonly known as Amnesty or AI) is an international, non-governmental organization with the stated purpose of promoting all the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international standards. ...

The school has two main publications. "Concordia", a reference to the latin "concordia parvae res crescunt" which appears on the school coat of arms and which means "In harmony, small things grow", is sent out each term as a round up of events within school life, as well as trips and excusions. "The Taylorian" is published anually and is a culmination of the year. It includes artwork and essays from various subjects.

Old Merchant Taylors (OMTs)

Edmund Spenser, author of The Faerie Queene

• Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester and translator of the King James Bible
• Hugh Boulter, Archbishop of Armagh
• Alex Cadwallader, rugby union player with Bristol, Newcastle Falcons and London Welsh, and rugby league player with the London Broncos (now Harlequins Rugby League).
• Nigel Calder, distinguished populariser of science
• Edward Hallett Carr, historian, author of What is History?
• Lynn Chadwick, one of Britain's greatest sculptors of the Twentieth Century
• Bob Chilcott, composer and former member of the King's Singers
• Robert Clive (expelled) (Clive of India)
• Donald Coggan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1974-80
• Christopher Daykin, Government Actuary and former President of the Institute of Actuaries
• Alan Duncan, Shadow Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, MP
• Henry R.H. Hall, Egyptologist and historian
• I.E.S. Edwards Egyptologist and Author
• Richard Faulkner, Lord Faulkner of Worcester, Labour Peer
• William Hailey, Governor of the Punjab and later the United Provinces, most distinguished member of Indian Civil Service
• Conn Iggulden, Best-selling author of "Emperor" series
• Sir James Jeans, Astronomer Royal, 'new physicisti, 'Quantum theorist'
• Sir William Joynson-Hicks, Home Secretary 1924-1929
• William Juxon, Archbishop of Canterbury, he had attended Charles I on the scaffold in 1649
• Boris Karloff, stage name of William Pratt, OMT
• Thomas Kyd, Elizabethan dramatist and author of The Spanish Tragedy
• Alfred Marshall, economist
• Reginald Maudling, politician
• Titus Oates, (expelled) Troublemaker
• Samuel Palmer, visionary landscape painter
• Michael Peschardt, distinguished foreign correspondent for the BBC
• John Randall, MP
• Andrew Robathan, MP
• Pat Sharp, radio DJ and television presenter
• Edmund Spenser, poet, author of The Faerie Queene and Lord Deputy of Ireland
• Sir Jock Stirrup, Chief of the Defence Staff
• Sir John E. Sulston, Nobel Laureate (2002)
• Paul Sussman, Best-selling author of "The lost army of Cambyses"
• John Timpson, radio presenter
• James Twining, Best-selling thriller writer ("The Double Eagle" and "The Black Sun")
• John Walter, founder of The Times newspaper
• John Webster, Jacobean dramatist and author of The Duchess of Malfi

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