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unusual facts about Grammar schools



Alan Durband

Expansion of post secondary education and the uncertainties of the future of Grammar schools led several experienced teachers to leave the Liverpool Institute School after the departure of the Headmaster John Robert Edwards in 1961.


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Education in Kingston upon Hull

Hymers College – more difficult to get into than the LEA grammar schools, so offered a highly prized education.

George W. C. Baker

Baker attended Lincoln Grammar and Hayes Valley Grammar schools in San Francisco and graduated from Commercial High School in that city; he then did four years of legal study with the firm of Frank and Eisner, also in San Francisco.

Grammarsgate

The Shadow Europe Minister Graham Brady resigned over disagreements on whether grammar schools boost social mobility.

Party leader David Cameron refused to support the creation of more grammar schools instead backing Labour's policy of City Academies.

John Morphett

Morphett was born in London, the second son of Nathaniel Morphett, a solicitor, and his wife Mary, née Gliddon, of Cummins, Ide, Devon, and was educated at Plymouth and Highgate Grammar Schools.

Malton Priory

He founded three grammar schools in Yorkshire, including Malton School (on part of the monastic site).

National Grammar Schools Association

This may be a chicken and egg situation, because areas with grammar schools have higher average house prices.

St. Colman's Abbey Christian Brothers' Primary School

The school takes its name from the two boys' Grammar schools in Newry, Abbey CBS and St Colman's College.

Stafford Poole

While in grammar schools there, his classmates included both the sons of the noted singer, Bing Crosby, as well as the future Cardinal Roger Mahony.

States of Jersey

The States are mentioned in a document of 1497 regarding the endowments of the grammar schools; by 1526 attendance by members at the assembly was evidently a requirement, as in that year the Rector of Saint Mary was fined for failure to attend.

Stephen Phillips

He was educated at Stratford and Peterborough Grammar Schools, and considered entering Queens' College, Cambridge on a minor scholarship to study classics; but he instead went to a London crammer to prepare for the civil service.

Tarring and feathering

In 1851 a Know-Nothing mob in Ellsworth, Maine, USA, tarred and feathered a Swiss-born Jesuit priest, Father John Bapst, in the midst of a local controversy over religious education in grammar schools.

Withington, Shropshire

Children going to private or grammar schools took the train from Walcot or Upton Magna stations whilst students at the secondary modern at Harlescott were bussed into Shrewsbury.