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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Carew Manor Special School
Now called Carew Academy. It teaches pupils aged 7 to18, with a wide range of ability levels and additional learning and complex needs.
1 memorial
Robert Raikes
Promoter of the Sunday School movement. Born and died Gloucester.
1 memorial
Lawrence Sheriff
Probably born in or near Rugby, 1515-16. In 1534 he went to London as an apprentice to a grocer. 7 years later he was a grocer and in 1554 he was elected to the Worshipful Company of Grocers. He wa...
1 memorial
PC Patrick Dunne
Police Constable Patrick Dunne was born on 2 April 1949 in Shoreham-on-Sea, Sussex, the son of Patrick Dunne (1915-1986) and Betty May Dunne née Wells (1926-2019), the first of their three sons. Hi...
2 memorials
Margaret McMillan
Socialist propogandist and educationalist. Born at Throgg's Neck, Westchester county, New York. Both her parents were from Scotland, and the family returned there when her father died. She attended...
1 memorial
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