Reading Standard Etc 02-1914

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YEDU~ATI~NAL
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QO,ssti l1
f.ltDto of Reading Bebool
drick Boys' Sch&l and _~be
bofore tliO ' Town CouDcil:~ Ono
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the Kendrick Boys" School Bhould I

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appointed in

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considerable

· aDd each i~stjtut~bn should cO,n tinue to

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8CRsrate ca.r~r~ and an?the~ ,

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ita I end9wscholar.hips lat
St. John·....od, Trinity
Colleg~s, Oxford. Uo ..
der 1 rChbiShOP Laud'. · .
, ' deed ,the visitors of
, the achool are tho
1 V ic~bancellor of the
• University of , Oxford~
1 the ,President of St.
J~hn's .College and the.
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, Ward'eD: . of All Souls College. ' I Since
He1ad 'M.,~er ,Reading School.
the 'CorRoration o(~ jReadipg h aS

.... raged to~ nd ~)l~ tr~ schools' it is! ~ '
.1" moment. to trace thofr N8t?ry" ..

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Fow eduCl\tion'al foundatlODs ID

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. BeI,ool:1 Tl)at thd(e was .. ,!"hool at

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of fboJfo un,ding of. Readil},g ~bb~Y~
6~bly even ~fore, Jf:I Bssured by the
~gor, Bishop of Sarum\ in n

from between I th~ years 1121 '--., ,"~"I

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pastori 9n ~esdaj
hearl~t ' and ·Mre.
receivJ.a. Th. b&ll
. for th,B OCCfl"sion) and
.been ..rved Mr,·W. J .
hh~b, presi~~' over

.hery orgJ"isatp, l'OIlD,~"t<id

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" ', Reading o~cept · . with .the ~
will 'o f tho Ahbot and Convent.
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l ' c1os<i of' th~ '1'2~h century ,. ' 811~cessor
Bishop" in a.n other charter, "f'1eyed
Abbot·. aDd Monks\l>l Reading • the
Roo.di';~·"i' In 14th .century '~~~~~, Ii
a;o, frequent 41JusioD~ t tb the }:
salli.ry to the schoolmaster and also
Ia'ting to the boys. ,W hen the ,Ho.&pital 'of St. John was bJili, about the
year p:OO, the school waa' I'Pparently '
houBed , in it. Iil 1486., the Abbot.
, h,vl0g suppressed the Hospital,. was .
drl"'ted tiy Henry ;vn. to assign ita' l
rovenues to Borne charitable iostitut '6q,
pursuanct of which.l command I
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· hb tr~nslerred thOm to ' j he school. .
• abo of bis o,ffieo'n g iv.ing 206 c mar~8
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any record was JQ~n Lon~, who die?
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in 1603. I n 1530 there was appointed,
to 'tho ma8~o;ship the greft L.onar d.
Ooice. frr:' nd
of Erasmus ' a~d

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by Mr. F . .
P. !lairn.,m.
Unler '
the present ' head·
Dr. Eppstein.

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perliaps tbe 'l lt' ~1 finan~.
'the_ann"l. of tbe ~.J.,I, ar.l~ .ddltlOos.
, p.ried that tjt. great school • .s!
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should be regular)
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boo~ the case.' ,ma lin
abou . it
decided tpat
Par ' Church should, be the a¥',;~t~nt
.of Tnnity. that· the ";Dterchl~n'8:el

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huilding,s.

shops, have beeJ;l made

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was thp next ' recorded matter,
after him came Julius
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was burnt at th~ stakel
Protestantism in 1556. Two

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Th~ K.ndrlok School, WaS ~o'!'1ded ,
tiler 8ta.~dard. of ~u<Â¥,'- recent.ly ~ 1877, fro~ ~rtain charities

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.On ~s r eSignatIOn In b
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h n nd Mary ~endr~
1830 ho }Viis sucjce.~e<l by Iii. son · and then , y
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, hOW scholar. in its annals., went
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old' cand cramped .iUj educ~tion~l purp0""/t. ",:,d " "
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'Sch'oo!. Q~'''lji E(izab~th ~tve the (JOrDe'rR'
Ol)u'rch to tho p~"ei>t ' sch~ for boys efec~ed' in '
,tio." the r:ight II of appointing ~hEf
buiildirjg", I lIoing re-op.nedt ,h~ f QJee~•...road. a similar ,.mool ..
\' the, school nnd alBa laid upon them'
his r~gim~ a. n~"i for' I 'rIb being esta~li8hed in I
" of paying him f Bn.lo.ry of £lO"Jl.
prcmp,edi'!,
in, 1He was sucooed~ Watt nO'£on _ street.
The Be l,
. that day ~o tl~i8 the school hu ~ been
. ed' 1887 and jwas
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8Oh;918 ~Upy a.n. inter,mediate : ..
J .C8S und ~r municipal

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M({.lnn'cUtll 0, ~nd ~h~ , ~uthor of ,.
Artu of R etoryked i l .. After the dlB- .I
s()l ut.ipn 0 the mOh~8teriE1B ! the p,t- - ~
' rollage ' of \t h() school pn88c:d from tpe
Ahbot
:t~ Crown. LeoQBrd Bilson

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That they .upply ~ jVidely-191t
, 'Vant. is ?hown by . e f~ that
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Boys] ,School is to ,give a com-'"
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class oy. whose par.nts dg not
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-.it few of the pupils lebt~i the
professions, ~d within thd la~~
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They ~re excell~ntl fIucatSonal
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mat~rlttJ, as th~r parents. as a "
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not rich eoougb. l to ~ p~mper _
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festly' fitted Ifor
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