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In Memoriam. Below is a list of recently deceased OMs since the last issue of Ulula (those in bold have an online obituary attached): Donald Adamson. H Gordon Adshead. L Barry Akid. Richard J Allen. George S Anderson. Anthony F. Armor. Frank Barrow.
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- 1511 - An Idea Is Formulated
- 1518-1560 - A New School at Long Millgate
- 1600-1650 - The New Feoffees
- 1650-1700 - The Duchess of Somerset
- 1700-1750
- 1750-1800
- Turbulent Times
- 1840-1860 - The Birth of Manchester Free Grammar School
- 1877-1891 - The Introduction of School Governors
- New Building at Mill Gate
Hugh Oldham was born around 1452 and spent his youth in medieval Manchester. Initially Oldham was educated in the home of Thomas Stanley, first Earl of Derby – whose wife, Countess Margaret Beaufort, took a keen interest in the education of young boys – and went on to study at Exeter College in Oxford and at Queens' College, Cambridge. Oldham prosp...
The bill of costs for building the Grammar School, signed by Hugh Oldham, shows that the School at Long Millgate was completed by 28 August 1518 at a cost of £218 13s 5d. On behalf of Hugh Oldham, £5 of this amount was paid by clergyman, accountant and chaplain to the bishop, Hugh Bexwyke and his mother Joan, to George Trafford in 1516 "for site of...
The plague in Manchester in 1605 killed around 20,000 people, including one of the School's masters. John Rowlands, previously of Corpus Christi College, succeeded High Masters Edward Chetham and Thomas Clayton and was appointed to the position in 1616. He fell into dispute with the Feoffees and lost his position in 1630 due to his continual absenc...
Despite the upheavals of the two decades between 1640 and 1660, 11 Manchester scholars went from MGS to Oxford and 55 to Cambridge for the most part to train for the Christian ministry. Until the Restoration most students stayed at Oxford and Cambridge for seven years, taking the BA degree after four and their MA three years later. By 1691 many stu...
The minutes of the Feoffees’ (now governors) meetings began in 1724 and are continuous up to the present day. Similarly, the Admissions Register begins in 1730, with information such as father’s name, occupation and town of residence. The series was interrupted from 1852 to 1860 but then continued also disclosing previous school and the boys’ annua...
William Purnell (1749) who had been usher at the School for nearly 26 years, succeeded as High Master. By 1753 the School had increased its intake to 36 new boys a year and an increasing number of the nobility appeared in the School. Boys came from further field with half of them going on to university. Purnell introduced literature into the school...
Manchester, though technically still a town and not a city, was now undergoing a remarkable growth. By 1800 it had doubled in size since Lawson – now aged over 70 – became High Master of its Grammar School, and boasted a population of 84,000. The Feoffees considered moving the School in 1808 as the area surrounding the High Master's and the Usher's...
In 1839 the Whig Lord Cottenham decreed that no surplus funds should be devoted by the Feoffees to building any boarding houses for the masters or to support any old boy at university. Fortunately the Whig ministry fell in 1841 and Lord Lyndhurst, a Tory and a brilliant scholar, deplored the notion that MGS might become a purely commercial academy....
Samuel Dill, the last head of MGS to be appointed by the President of Corpus Christi, succeeded High Master Walker in 1877. By this time the Schools Enquiry Commission had recommended changing the complex and peculiar system by which MGS was governed and abolished the powers of the President and the Dean of the Cathedral. (The Dean, in conjunction ...
By October 1880 the building was finished, lauded by the British Architect as 'one of the most completely finished buildings of its kind in the kingdom, and having a gymnasium, considered second to none in Europe.' Five hundred boys at once could now drill indoors en masse. The plethora of extra-curricular activates continued to expand. Swimming co...
Black and white photograph of pupils at Jewish Assembly in the late 1950s or 1960s • Manchester Grammar School Archive. The Manchester Grammar School Archive holds the records of Manchester Grammar School, where many of Manchester’s Jewish population received their education.
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Dec 15, 2015 · Dylan's family also supports the Great Ormond Street Hospital and Camp Simcha UK charities. So far, more than £5,000 has been raised. Dr Martin Boulton, High Master of The Manchester Grammar School, said: "Dylan was a truly inspirational young man, who was extremely popular with boys and teachers here at MGS.
