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Davenant Centre

A school was built following the death of Reverend Ralph Davenant in 1680 and re-built and expanded in 1818 and 1896.

The Davenant Centre was built to remember the community work of the Reverend Ralph Davenant, Rector of Whitechapel, who left a legacy to educate forty boys and thirty girls.


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Ralph Davenant

Reverend Ralph Davenant founded Davenant Foundation School in February 1680, when he left £100 in his will to start up a school for 40 poor boys of Whitechapel, London.