Founded in 1561 by Sir Thomas White and originally at St Lawrence Pountney, EC4. In 1875 moved to newly built premised at Charterhouse, mainly to enable expansion. But by 1929 it had been decided that London was too dirty and congested and the playing fields were too far away so the school moved to Sandy Lodge, Hertfordshire, selling the site to St Barts Hospital.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Merchant Taylors' School
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Charterhouse
The Great Cloister of The London Charterhouse, 1371 - 1538, once occupied thi...
Merchant Taylors' School - EC4
{Beneath the Merchant Taylors' crest:} Site of Merchant Taylors' School 1561 ...
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Royal Mathematical School
Initiated by Sir Robert Clayton who had read about the French schools of navigation. He persuaded King Charles II to support the UK equivalent as part of Christ's Hospital. "Samuel Pepys in the Adm...
1 memorial
St John of Wapping School
The school was originally founded in 1695, although its first location is unknown, as is its closure date. The bluecoat statues are probably the finest examples in London.
3 memorials
Dinah Fryer
Born in 1954, Dinah Fryer was an Australian history schoolteacher at Golden Grove High School in Adelaide, South Australia, who was on her first overseas trip with her husband Chris Fryer and their...
1 memorial
Robert Raikes
Promoter of the Sunday School movement. Born and died Gloucester.
1 memorial
1 memorial
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