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.
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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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Nightingale Nurse Training School
In full, the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care. The world's first nursing school to be continuously connected to a fully serving hospital (St Thomas's) and me...
1 memorial
Westfield College
Founded in 1882 by Constance Louisa Maynard and Ann Dudin Brown, as a residential women's college modelled on women's colleges already established in Oxford and Cambridge. The name probably came fr...
3 memorials
Jonathan Geach Tinner
Co-churchwarden of St Jude's in 1911. Jonathan Geach Tinner was born in 1847 in Tywardreath, Cornwall, the second of the three children of Richard Tinner (1806-1891) and Mary Ann Tinner née Blowey...
1 memorial
2 memorials
Bushra Nasir
Studied at Queen Mary University and in 1997 became the first Muslim headteacher of a state school, Plashet School for Girls in East Ham.
1 memorial
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