In 1707 a charity school was established in accordance with the notions of those days, in which 30 boys and 20 girls were instructed, and were also clothed in an uniform at the expense of the charity, but were not lodged or fed, except by a dinner on Sundays to secure their attendance at church. This object was attained by applying for subscriptions, and it was then that the Royal bounty which the schools have up to the present received was first granted, Queen Anne granting £50 a-year, and Prince George of Denmark her husband, £30 a-year. The next step was to amalgamate the free school with the new charity school which took place in 1709, and in 1711 the old schoolhouse on the premises formerly occupied by the “Catherine Wheel” public house was pulled down and a new one erected, and was first used in August, 1712. The subscriptions collected for the building were more than sufficient for the purpose, as were also those for the carrying on the school, and the surplus was from time to time invested, first in East India bonds, and afterwards in South Sea annuities. Thomas Smith, and his son in 1721, left a house adjoining the school premises in trust for the habitation of a schoolmaster. In 1732 the Rev. Dr. Millington, the then Vicar of Kensington, devised one-third of the rent of some land at Acton to trustees for the use of the Charity School; and some other small gifts were from time to time made to the charity. In 1769 a Mrs. Randolph bequeathed, or gave in her lifetime, a sum of £275 to the schools, which appears to have been invested in South Sea Stock. Another benefactor to the parish was Mr. John Farmer, who died on the 9th November, 1803, bequeathing his portrait to the schoolhouse, in the modern representative of which it still hangs, and assists the school committee in their labours by beaming upon them from the wall of the school committee room, and a sum of £500, together with the proceeds of the sale of his household furniture and pictures, saving the aforesaid portrait. The furniture produced £400, making Mr. Farmer’s, benefaction amount in money to £900, and the whole appears to have been invested in South Sea Stock. At the date of the report of 1810, to which I have frequently alluded, the property of the charity consisted of the school premises, occupying an important site in the main road, two sums of South Sea stock, amounting to £2,275 and £925 each, the Royal bounty, five-eighths of the rent of the “Goat” public-house, and the rent of the land at Acton given by Dr. Millington. And the committee recommended that some children be boarded and longed as well as educated, and that more be educated, and that the title be changed from “Charity School” to that of “Free School.”