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Hawkshead Grammar School

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Founder
  
Edwin Sandys

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, the building functions today as Hawkshead Grammar School Museum and is open to the public.

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The building is Grade II* listed

Notable former pupils

Famous scholars included:

  • Poet William Wordsworth
  • Christopher Wordsworth (Trinity)
  • Reverend George Walker (a sixteenth-century divine and one of the Westminster Assembly)
  • Joshua King
  • Sir James Scarlett, 1st Baron Abinger
  • Sir Frederick Pollock, 3rd Baronet
  • Bishop Law
  • Daniel Rawlinson
  • Thomas Alcock Beck
  • Henry Ainslie
  • Montague Ainslie
  • Edward Baines
  • References

    Hawkshead Grammar School Wikipedia