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From: "Delia Horsfall" <>
Subject: RE: [DOR] Sherborne School Register
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 21:29:00 +0100
In-Reply-To: <3B19CACA.D959C4B3@globalnet.co.uk>


Further to your information on Sherborne School - the change in the mid
C19th century was under Mr Harper as headmaster. He was welsh and he brought
with him a number of welsh pupils. The increases in numbers at the beginning
were these welsh boys. Look at the records of the 1881 census and you will
see they nearly all come from South Wales. The "Scholarship" was valued at
£30 and there were to be two offered to boys born in Sherborne. As far as I
know it still exists at £30, although in the last two years other
scholarships have been set up with the money left to the school by Mr Bow.
Delia Horsfall

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Armstrong [mailto:]
Sent: 03 June 2001 06:28
To:
Subject: [DOR] Sherborne School Register

Hello Scott

I don't have the 1950 register, but here are your Harston's in the 1937
Sherborne Register. If anyone else wishes me to do look-ups, please let
me know.

Harston, George Alfred (F), son of Rev. E. Harston, V. of Sherborne;
b.[18]43; left [18]60; civil engineer; engaged in land and railway
surveys in N.Z. And N.S.W. [18]60-[18]72; d.[19]09
Entered School second term 1854

Harston, Frank Archdall (F), brother of the above; b.[18]46; left
[18]59; entered R.N. [18]60; commanded the "Dee" during Egyptian War
[18]82, and the "Alecto" on W. Coast of Africa [18]83-85 (despatches);
Naval Transport Officer at Suakin [18]85-86; Divisional Officer H.M.
Coastguard; retired, Commander, [18]91; d.[19]10.
Entered School second term 1854

Harston, Percival Hanbury (F), son of Rev. E. Harston, V. of Sherborne;
b.[18]50; left [18]65; Manager of Birmingham and Dudley Dist. Bank at
Smethwick ([18]77); Stafford ([18]82); Sheffield ([18]88); of Lloyds
Bank, Stafford, [18]90; Treas. of the County of Stafford; d.[19]21; (son
13).
Entered School second term 1860

Harston, Wilfred Welchman, son of P.H. Harston (o.s.), Stafford;
b.[18]99; (a) [School House]; vi; xi [cricket]; [19]17; left [19]17;
R.M.C.; Dorset Regt.; North Russian Relief Force [19]19; Regular Army R.
of O.; now Headmaster, Aldwick School, Boarshead, nr. Tunbridge Wells.
Entered School third term 1913.

Harston, Charles Greville (F), son of Rev. E. Harston, V. of Sherborne;
b.[18]49; left [18]64; R.M.L.I. [18]67-74; Canada [18]76; founded
Ilfracombe Settlement, Ontario; served in N.W. Rebellion [18]85;
Brigade-Major Canadian Grenadiers; invented first hammerless
breech-loading gun; stockbroker at Toronto; d.[19]33.
Entered School first term, 1860.

Square brackets are mine. (F) means Foundationer - see below. o.s. is
"Old
Shiburnian, i.e an ex-pupil of the school.

(F) after a name denotes Foundationer. The Charter of Edward VI's
Foundation established the School for the free education of boys in
"Grammatica" (i.e. Latin and Greek), but did not restrict the privilege
to local boys. Boys born in the town were indeed exempted by the
Statutes of 1592 from the entrance-fee of "twelve pence", but this was
the only special privilege assigned to them. Probably most, if not all,
of the "tablers" or boarders, as well as the day-boys, of the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries received their tuition free of
charge. It was not until 1827 that a clause was introduced into the
Statutes (apparently with no justification) restricting the privilege of
free education to boys introduced by the "Warden" (or Chairman of the
Governors) from the town and neighbourhood of Sherborne. Naturally after
1827 nearly all the Foundationers were day-boys. Foundationers received
not only free education but free books. But the free tuition was
confined to "Grammatica", and when other subjects began to be taught a
charge was made for them. The Endowed Schools Act of 1869 and the
subsequent New Scheme of 1871 abolished Foundationers and established in
their place a number of scholarships of the value of the full tuition
fee for boys residing anywhere. At the time of their abolition there
were fifty-three Foundationers on the Roll, but the average number
during the previous half-century was between thirty and forty.

btw Sherborne is in Dorset and you may wish to subscribe to the
list to be more certain of contacting the 'right
person'.

Best wishes
Peter Armstrong, Dorset

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