Hawkshead Grammar School
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Hawkshead Grammar School in Hawkshead
, Cumbria
, England
was founded in 1585 by Archbishop Edwin Sandys, of York, who petitioned a charter from Queen Elizabeth I to set up a governing body. The early School taught Latin
, Greek and sciences, including arithmetic and geometry. Although the School closed in 1909, it operates today as Hawkshead Grammar School Museum
and is open to the public.
Hawkshead
Hawkshead is a village and civil parish in the Cumbria, England. It is one of the main tourist honeypots in the South Lakeland area, and is dependent on the local tourist trade...
, Cumbria
Cumbria
Cumbria , is a non-metropolitan county in North West England. The county and Cumbria County Council, its local authority, came into existence in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972. Cumbria's largest settlement and county town is Carlisle. It consists of six districts, and in...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
was founded in 1585 by Archbishop Edwin Sandys, of York, who petitioned a charter from Queen Elizabeth I to set up a governing body. The early School taught Latin
Latin
Latin is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. It, along with most European languages, is a descendant of the ancient Proto-Indo-European language. Although it is considered a dead language, a number of scholars and members of the Christian clergy speak it fluently, and...
, Greek and sciences, including arithmetic and geometry. Although the School closed in 1909, it operates today as Hawkshead Grammar School Museum
Hawkshead Grammar School Museum
The museum operates in the old Hawkshead Grammar School building from April through to October. It gives a guided tour of the school room which brings the school to life. Visitors may feel the atmosphere and almost believe you are in a working English schoolroom of 200 years ago where the...
and is open to the public.
Notable former pupils
Famous scholars included:- Poet William WordsworthWilliam WordsworthWilliam Wordsworth was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads....
- Christopher Wordsworth (Trinity)Christopher Wordsworth (Trinity)Christopher Wordsworth , was an English divine and scholar.Born in Cockermouth, Cumberland, he was the youngest brother of the poet William Wordsworth, and was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he became a fellow in 1798.Twelve years later he received the degree of DD...
- Reverend James Hodgson, Headmaster of Whitgift SchoolWhitgift SchoolWhitgift School is an independent day school educating approximately 1,400 boys aged 10 to 18 in South Croydon, London in a parkland site.- History and grounds :...
and father of Francis HodgsonFrancis HodgsonFrancis Hodgson , was a reforming Provost of Eton, educator, cleric, writer of verse, and friend of Byron....
, Provost of Eton - Reverend George WalkerGeorge Walker (Puritan)George Walker was an English clergyman, known for strong Puritan views. He was imprisoned in 1638 by William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, an affair that was raised later against Laud at his trial...
(a sixteenth century divine and one of the Westminster AssemblyWestminster AssemblyThe Westminster Assembly of Divines was appointed by the Long Parliament to restructure the Church of England. It also included representatives of religious leaders from Scotland...
) - Joshua KingJoshua KingJoshua King was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge from 1839 to 1849.- References :...
- Sir James Scarlett, 1st Baron AbingerJames Scarlett, 1st Baron AbingerJames Scarlett, 1st Baron Abinger was an English lawyer, politician and judge.-Background and education:...
- Sir Frederick Pollock, 3rd Baronet
- Bishop Law
- Daniel RawlinsonDaniel RawlinsonDaniel Rawlinson , of Graythwaite and London, was educated at Hawkshead Grammar School. He became a vintner in London where he kept the Mitre on Fenchurch Street. He was a friend of Samual Pepys and a staunch royalist who hung out a sign in mourning on the execution of King Charles I...
- Thomas Alcock BeckThomas Alcock BeckThomas Alcock Beck was the author of Annales Furnesienses , a history of Furness Abbey, which was dedicated by permission to Her Majesty Queen Victoria, and which contained twenty-six steel engravings and several woodcuts.-References:...
- Henry AinslieHenry AinslieHenry Ainslie was a physician. Educated at Hawkshead Grammar School and then Pembroke College, Cambridge , he became a fellow of Pembroke in 1782, and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1795...
- Montague AinslieMontague AinslieMontague Ainslie was an English forester and businessman whose interests included the iron ore company Harrison Ainslie....
- Edward BainesEdward BainesEdward Baines , English newspaper-proprietor and politician, was born in 1774 at Walton-le-Dale, near Preston, Lancashire. He was educated at the grammar schools of Hawkshead and Preston, and at the age of sixteen was apprenticed to a printer in Preston...