Stephen Perse

Stephen Perse (1548 – 30 September 1615) was an English academic, physician and philanthropist, who founded schools that still carry his name.^[1]

Biography

He was probably educated at

Norwich School, and took his B.A. degree at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge in 1569, where he was elected to a fellowship.^[2] Ordained in May 1573, as a Church of England priest and deacon, he was subsequently permitted to change his fellowship to "physick" and took the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1581.^[3]

Perse amassed a fortune of around £10,000, probably from profits on business loans.^[

Maid's Causeway, and for the public water supply from the springs at Nine Wells to Cambridge along the stream known as Hobson's Conduit.^{[citation needed}

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The
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] and he is remembered at the College's annual Perse Feast. His epitaph there reads:

Christian surnamde Stephan Perse I hight
Sole life with God alone, my crowne my light
With living God eternall life I live
This now my song: to sole God praise I give

This epitaph by me Perse was devizd
To none else my thoughts better were comprizd.

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Educational foundation

In his will, Perse gave a significant sum of money for the establishment of "a Grammar Free Schoole", and adjoining

Trumpington, with some of the boys able to proceed to scholarships at Gonville and Caius College.^[5]

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In 1615

Perse School for Girls was established, now part of the Stephen Perse Foundation

.

References

^ "History". Stephen Perse Foundation.
^ "Pearse, Stephen (PRS565S)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
^ "Pearse, Stephen (PRS565S)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
^ Find-a-grave - Dr Stephen Perse
^ "Perse: A History of the Perse School 1615-1976", S.J.D. Mitchell, Oleander Press, Cambridge 1976.
^ "A History of the Perse School, Cambridge", J.M. Gray, Bowes and Bowes, Cambridge 1921.
^ The original Perse School (now the Whipple Museum)
^ Cambridge Blue Plaques Archived 26 April 2009 at the Wayback Machine

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[1] "History". Stephen Perse Foundation.

[2] "Pearse, Stephen (PRS565S)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.

[3] "Pearse, Stephen (PRS565S)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.

[4] Find-a-grave - Dr Stephen Perse

[Mitchell-5] "Perse: A History of the Perse School 1615-1976", S.J.D. Mitchell, Oleander Press, Cambridge 1976.

[Gray-6] "A History of the Perse School, Cambridge", J.M. Gray, Bowes and Bowes, Cambridge 1921.

[7] The original Perse School (now the Whipple Museum)

[8] Cambridge Blue Plaques Archived 26 April 2009 at the Wayback Machine

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