Mercers' School
The Mercers' School was an
Worshipful Company of Mercers
and was closed in 1959.
History
After the
Henry VIII dated 18 April 1542. It is possible that the new school continued one that had been established in the hospital by an Act of Parliament of 1447, which may have dated back as far as the foundation of the hospital itself in 1190. At different times the school had several different homes in the City of London: Cheapside, Old Jewry, and College Hill (Dowgate); in 1894 it moved to Barnard's Inn, a site on the south side of Holborn.[1]
The school was admitted to the Headmasters' Conference in 1935.[2] It finally closed in 1959.[3]
The passageway leading to the Mercers' School's porter's lodge and playground with Queen Anne headstone (which traditionally new boys were forced to kiss), the Headmaster's rooms and dining hall, with early flags and inscribed panel walls giving the names and dates of headmasters over the centuries, still exist at the Barnard's Inn buildings in Chancery Lane. The
livery companies pertaining to their trades or professions.[4]
Former pupils
Those educated at the Mercers' School include:
- Sir Thomas James Barnes(1888–1964), lawyer
- James Boevey (1622–1696), merchant, lawyer and philosopher
- Peter Southouse Cheyney (1896–1951), crime writer
- Frederic George D'Aeth (1875–1940), social administrator and lecturer [5]
- Cyril Dean Darlington (1903–1981), biologist
- Stanley Clinton Davis, Baron Clinton-Davis(born 1928)
- Sir Henry Ellis (1777–1869), librarian
- Sir Alfred Gilbert (1854–1934), sculptor
- Arthur Allan Gomme (1882–1955), librarian and president of The Folklore Society[6][7]
- Sir Bradford Leslie (1831–1926), civil engineer
- Douglas Neil Kennedy (1892–1988), folk musician and dancer[8]
- Peter Nailor (1928–1996), academic
- Robert Paynter (1928–2010), cinematographer
- Nicolas Roeg (1928–2018), film director
- William Lloyd Webber (1914–1982), organist and composer
- Edward Wynn (1889–1956), bishop
- John Young (c. 1532–1605), bishop
References
- ^ The endowed charities of the City of London (1829), pp. 42–43
- ^ "Mercers' School History – The OLD MERCERS' CLUB".
- ^ "Death of a School", in The Times, dated 24 March 1958, p. 5
- ^ "Young People & Education | Mercers". mercers.co.uk.
- doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/54584. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/54473. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- .
- doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/54871. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- "Mercers' School", in The Times, 4 December 1933, p. 9
External links
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