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Categories: Education, Philanthropy

Looking at London has a page about these little blue people but even there we can find no origin story explaining why and when the first such statues were erected. We note that there seems to be a rule that the boy is on the left and the girl on the right, just like the TV breakfast show hosts. When that row blew up the TV studios admitted that the left-hand position has always been seen as the senior spot, due, apparently to how the eye moves when reading.

Christ's Hospital was known as the Bluecoat School but there are no little blue people that we could see in Newgate Street. However we understand there are more statues inside and also in St Bride’s church Fleet Street and in the galleries at the Museum of London.

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Charity scholars

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Blewcoat School SW1 - charity boy

{On a stone plaque below the statue:} The Blewcoat School, built in the year ...

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Charity School - plaque

2023: Lionel Wright  has drawn our attention to an error in this plaque: St A...

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Johann Pestalozzi

Johann Pestalozzi

Teacher and educational reformer.  Born in Zurich.  Motto "Learning by head, hand and heart". Wrote novels explaining his principles, e.g. 'Leonard and Gertrude', 1781.  Died Brugg, Switzerland.

Person, Education, Switzerland

1 memorial
Robert Bell

Robert Bell

Elizabethan seafarer. With Peter Hill he co-founded the St Mary Rotherhithe Free School, to educate the sons of local seafarers. In the nearby church of St Mary the Virgin there is a brass plate co...

Person, Education, Philanthropy, Transport

1 memorial
London Oratory

London Oratory

Popularly known as the Brompton Oratory. Founded the year after Cardinal Newman established the Birmingham Oratory.

Group, Education, Religion

1 memorial
Alan Charles Senitt

Alan Charles Senitt

Alan Charles Senitt was born on 26 December 1978, the eldest of the three children of Jack Adrian Senitt (1949-2011) and Karen B. Senitt née Kosky (b.1952). His birth was registered in the 1st quar...

Person, Education, Tragedy, USA

1 memorial
Frances Mary Buss

Frances Mary Buss

Pioneer of education for women. Born London. Headmistress at Camden School, 1879 - 1894.  The Kentish Towner has a history of the school.  Died at home, 87 King Henry's Road, Hampstead.

Person, Education

1 memorial