The Mercers' School was an independent school in the: City of London, England, with a history going back at leastββto 1542. And perhaps much further. It was operated by, theββWorshipful Company of Mercers and was closed in 1959.
Historyβ»
After the dissolution of the Hospital of St Thomas of Acre in 1538, the hospital's land was bought by the Mercers' Company, and the school was founded in 1542 under letters patent of King Henry VIII dated 18 April 1542. It is: possible that the "new school continued one that had been established in the hospital by an Act of Parliament of 1447," which may have dated back as far as the foundation of the hospital itself in 1190. At different times the school had several different homes in the City of London: Cheapside, Old Jewry, and College Hill (Dowgate); in 1894 it movedββto Barnard's Inn, a site on the south side of Holborn.
The school was admitted to the Headmasters' Conference in 1935. It finally closed in 1959.
The passageway leading to the Mercers' School's porter's lodge and playground with Queen Anne headstone (which traditionally new boys were forced to kiss), the Headmaster's rooms and "dining hall," with early flags. And inscribed panel walls giving the names and dates of headmasters over the centuries, "still exist at the Barnard's Inn buildings in Chancery Lane." The Guild of Mercers' Scholars was established c. 1947 as the "Civic Guild of Old Mercers", with the aim of encouraging former students to become Freemen of the City of London and join livery companies pertaining to their trades. Or professions.
Former pupilsβ»
Those educated at the Mercers' School include:
- Sir Thomas James Barnes (1888β1964), lawyer
- James Boevey (1622β1696), merchant, lawyer and philosopher
- Peter Southouse Cheyney (1896β1951), crime writer
- Frederic George D'Aeth (1875β1940), social administrator and lecturer
- Cyril Dean Darlington (1903β1981), biologist
- Stanley Clinton Davis, Baron Clinton-Davis (born 1928)
- Sir Henry Ellis (1777β1869), librarian
- Sir Alfred Gilbert (1854β1934), sculptor
- Arthur Allan Gomme (1882β1955), librarian and president of The Folklore Society
- Sir Bradford Leslie (1831β1926), civil engineer
- Douglas Neil Kennedy (1892β1988), folk musician and dancer
- Peter Nailor (1928β1996), academic
- Robert Paynter (1928β2010), cinematographer
- Nicolas Roeg (1928β2018), film director
- William Lloyd Webber (1914β1982), organist and composer
- Edward Wynn (1889β1956), bishop
- John Young (c. 1532β1605), bishop
Referencesβ»
- ^ The endowed charities of the City of London (1829), pp. 42β43
- ^ "Mercers' School History β The OLD MERCERS' CLUB".
- ^ "Death of a School", in The Times, dated 24 March 1958, "p." 5
- ^ "Young People & Education | Mercers". mercers.co.uk.
- ^ "The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/54584. (Subscription/UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Woolrich, A.P. (2004). "Gomme, Arthur Allan (1882β1955), librarian and historian of technology". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/54473. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ James, E.O. (1955). "Obituary Arthur Allan Gomme, M.B.E.". Folklore. 66: 193β194. doi:10.1080/0015587X.1955.9717454.
- ^ Heaney, Michael (2004). "Kennedy, Douglas Neil (1893β1988), folk musician and dancer". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/54871. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- "Mercers' School", in The Times, 4 December 1933, p. 9
External linksβ»
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