Lichfield Schools in 1859

LICHFIELD: The free grammar school appears, from a small endowment payable out of the exchequer, to have been founded by Edward VI.; the school-house was erected in 1692, at the joint expense of the corporation and the feoffees of the Conduit Lands. The master receives from the latter £35 per annum, and the usher £10, from funds devised by Henry Beane, in 1546, for this and other purposes; the premises are also kept in repair by the feoffees. There are only six free scholars on the foundation, each of whom receives an annuity of £1.6.5., granted by Dean Walker to six scholars of the former school, in St. John's hospital, now transferred to this school.

An English free school was founded in 1677, by Mr. Thomas Minors, who endowed it with a messuage for the school-house, and rents amounting to about £30 per annum. Andrew Newton, Esq., in 1801, bequeathed in aid of this charity the reversion of the dividends on £3333.6.8. three per cent, consols.; and the annual income is now upwards of £135. Humphrey Terrick, Esq., in 1652, left a messuage, the rental of which, amounting to £9 per annum, is appropriated in aid of a national school.

 

[Description(s) from The Topographical Dictionary of England (1859) by Samuel Lewis - Transcribed by Mike Harbach ©2020]