A History of Giggleswick School from its Foundation, 1499 to 1912 — John Shaqi
A History of Giggleswick School from its Foundation, 1499 to 1912Bell, Edward Allen
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A History of Giggleswick School from its Foundation, 1499 to 1912
Bell, Edward Allen
Giggleswick School (Giggleswick, England) -- History
Appointment of a New Master--Suggested Examiners--Qualifications
Necessary--Strong Field of Candidates--Appointment of
Ingram--Elementary Education--William Stackhouse, Writing
Master--Clayton's Insanity--Increased Numbers--Increased
Revenues--Commissioners of 1825--Rev. John Howson--Craven
Bank--Usher's House--Letter from John Carr--John Saul
Howson--Character of Ingram's Rule--Potation.
CHAPTER VIII.--DR. GEORGE ASH BUTTERTON, 1845-1858. [126-148.
Attitude of the Governors--Aim of Education--Scheme of 1844--Its
Defects--Bishop of Ripon--Appointment of Butterton--New School
Built--Description--Prize Poems--Hastings' Exhibition--Bishop of
Ripon's Examiner's Report--Giggleswick Pupils Prize--Howson
Prize--Modern Language Master--Curriculum of the School Examination
1855--Admittance of Pupils--Difficulties of Butterton--Illness of
Howson--Fig Day--Payments by Scholars--Glazier's Bills--Efficiency
of the School.
CHAPTER IX.--THE REV. JOHN RICHARD BLAKISTON, 1858-1866. [149-168.
Blakiston appointed Master--Matthew Wood, Usher--John Langhorne--Arthur
Brewin--Examiner's Report--Decrease of Numbers--Difficulties of the
Scheme of 1844--Blakiston and Wood--Master's House Unfit for
Boarders--Pronunciation of Greek and Latin--Mr. James
Foster--Charity Commissioners--New Scheme 1864--New Governing
Body--Sir James Kay Shuttleworth--Walter Morrison--Fig Day--School
Clock--Ingram Prize--Resignation of Usher--Preliminaries for a New
Scheme--Suspension of Usher's Office--Inspector's Report 1863--Free
Education--Inspector's Report 1865--Development of New
Scheme--Resignation of Mr. Blakiston--Purchase of Football
Field--Proposals for Hostel.
CHAPTER X.--A NEW ERA. [169-197.
Temporary Headmaster--Thomas Bramley--Michael Forster--Hostel--Rev.
George Style--Private Boarding House--Endowed Schools Act 1869--New
Scheme of Management 1872--Free Education--Shute Exhibitions--
Increase of Numbers--Natural Science--Dr W. Marshall
Watts--Purchase of Holywell Toft--Additions to the Hostel--New
Class-rooms--Gymnasium--Success at the Universities--Death of Sir
James Kay Shuttleworth--Lord Frederick Cavendish--Mr. Hector
Christie--Giggleswick Church Restoration--Athletics--Giggleswick
_v._ Sedbergh--Music--Charles Frederick Hyde--School Library--G. B.
Mannock--Bankwell--Arthur Brewin--Fire in the Laboratory--
Educational Exhibition--Museum--Old Boys' Club--Numbers in the
School--Craven Bank--Hollybank--_Giggleswick Chronicle_--Boer War.
CHAPTER XI.--THE CHAPEL. [198-215.
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