Felsted School

Felsted School

Motto	Garde Ta Foy (Latin: Keep your Faith)
Established	1564
Type	Independent school
Headmaster	Michael Walker
Founder	Richard, Lord Riche
Location	Felsted Essex CM6 3LL England
Students	976 (in 2010, including Prepschool students.)
Gender	Co-educational
Ages	4–18
Website	Felsted School

Felsted School, an English co-educational day and boarding independent school, situated in Felsted, England. It is in the British Public School tradition, and was founded in 1564 by Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich (also known as Riche) who, as Lord Chancellor and Chancellor of the Court of Augmentations, acquired considerable wealth from the spoils of the Dissolution of the Monasteries including the nearby Leez Priory, which he enlarged and made his own home. Felsted is one of the 12 founder members of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference, and is also a full member of the Round Square Conference of world schools. Felsted School has been awarded the Good School Guide award twice and is regularly featured in Tatler's Schools Guide. ^[1]

Contents 1 History 2 Houses 3 Headmasters 4 Alumni 5 References 5.1 Notes 5.2 Books 6 External links

History

The school became a notable educational centre for Puritan families in the 17th century, numbering a hundred or more pupils, under Martin Holbeach, Headmaster from 1627–1649, and his successors (see below). John Wallis and Isaac Barrow were educated at Felsted in this period, as were four of Oliver Cromwell's sons.

Another era of prosperity set in under the headmastership of William Trivett between 1778 and 1794; but under his successors numbers dwindled. As the result of the discovery by Thomas Surridge (headmaster 1835–1850), from research among the records, that a larger income was really due to the foundation, a reorganization took place by Act of Parliament, and in 1851,under the headmastership of the Rev. Albert Henry Wratislaw, the school was put under a new governing body (a revised scheme coming into operation in 1876). As a result, Felsted developed rapidly into one of the regular public schools of the modern English type, under the Rev. W. S. Grignon, who may almost be considered the second founder. New buildings were built on an elaborate scale, numbers increased to more than 200, and a complete transformation took place, which was continued under Grignon's successors, including Frank Stephenson, under whom large extensions to the buildings and playing-fields were made. These additions allowed admittances up to 475 pupils, nearly all of whom are boarders.

The school was evacuated to Goodrich Court in Herefordshire during the Second World War. Major building works took place for the 400th anniversary celebrations in 1964, when the Queen Mother laid the foundation stone for the then new Music School, subsequently opened by Felsted governor Lord Butler of Saffron Walden, (formerly Rab Butler). In 2008 this building was replaced by a larger new building which was opened in 2009 by Dame Evelyn Glennie. The Princess Royal opened the new Lord Riche Hall in 1989. Girls were taken into the Sixth Form in 1970, and into the whole school in 1993.

Houses

Girls' boarding houses:

• Stocks's ^[2]
• Follyfield^[3]
• Garnetts^[4]
• Thorne^[5]

Boys' boarding houses:

• Elywn's^[6]
• Gepp's^[7]
• Deacon's^[8]
• Windsor's^[9]

Day houses:

• Manor^[10]
• Montgomery's^[11]

Headmasters

• 1564–1566 – Rev. John Daubeney
• 1566–1576 – Rev. John Berryman, MA (d. 1617)
• 1576–1596 – Rev. Henry Greenwood, MA
• 1597–1627 – Rev. George Manning, BA
• 1627–1649 – Rev. Martin Holbeach, MA (1600–1670)
• 1650–1690 – Rev. Christopher Glascock, MA, OF (d. 1690)
• 1690–1712 – Rev. Simon Lydiatt, MA (1659–1713)
• 1713–1725 – Rev. Hugh Hutchin, MA (1678–1725)
• 1725–1750 – Rev. John Wyatt (1698–1750)
• 1750–1778 – Rev. William Drake
• 1778–1794 – Rev. William Trivett (1745–1830)
• 1794–1813 – Rev. William John Carless, BA (1770–1813)
• 1813–1835 – Rev. Edmund Squire, MA (1780–1853)
• 1835–1850 – Rev. Thomas Surridge
• 1850–1855 – Rev. Albert Henry Wratislaw, MA (1822–1892)
• 1856–1875 – Rev. William Stanford Grignon, MA (1824–1907)
• 1875–1890 – Rev. Delaval Shafto Ingram, MA (1840–1920)
• 1890–1906 – Rev. Herbert Andrew Dalton (b. 1852)
• 1906–1933 – Rev. Frank Stephenson, MA (1871–1936)
• 1933–1943 – Rev. Kenneth Julian Faithful Bickersteth, MA (1885–1962)
• 1943–1947 – Alistair Andrew, BA (1908–1947)
• 1947–1951 – C.M. Harrison
• 1951–1968 – Henry E. Reekie, MA
• 1968–1982 – Anthony F. Eggleston, OBE
• 1983–1993 – Edward Gould MA, FRGS, FRSA (b. 1943)
• 1993–2008 – Stephen C. Roberts
• 2008– – Dr Michael Walker^[12]

Alumni

References

Notes

1. ^ http://www.goodschoolsguide.co.uk/schools/103356/felsted-school/4C6C799#sch_tabs-2
2. ^ Stocks's
3. ^ Follyfield
4. ^ Garnetts
5. ^ Thorne
6. ^ Elywn's
7. ^ Gepp's
8. ^ Deacon's
9. ^ Windsor's
10. ^ Manor
11. ^ Montgomery's
12. ^ http://www.felsted.org/newsdetailtext.asp?story=11021

Books

• Michael Craze, Felsted School: A Short History, Felsted School, 1965.
• Michael Craze, A History of Felsted School, 1564–1947, Cowell, 1955.
• John Sargeaunt, History of Felsted School, 1889.
• R.J. Beevor, E.T. Roberts, Alumni Felstedienses, 1903.

External links

• Felsted School
• The Felsted Archives
• The Good Schools Guide Review of Felsted School, Great Dunmow, CM6 3LL

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 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.