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Many British schools have foundations that go back centuries. This is especially true pf the public (private secondary) schools. The preparatory schools have much more recent foundations. The first prep schools weere founded in the 19th century, although some existing prep schools and schools offering programs for prep-school age children evolved from earlier schools. A number of prep schools date from the 19th century, but most modern prep schools were founded in the early 20th century. Quite a few schools had to close in the difficult economic environment of the 1970s. Few new schools have opened.
.... The school was founded by Mr. T.L. Griffith in 1933 to rovide a first-class preparatory education for boys between seven and fourteen years of age. In 1963 the school was formed into a charitable trust under a board of governors. Any profit mase is used exclusively for the benefit of the school. Since that date steps have been taken to increase the accomodations and amenities. This is a continung process.
Barfield School Prospectus
Beachborough is a Preparatory Boarding School for boys from the ages of 8 to 13. It was founded in 1910 by F.E. Chappell, a former Chairman of the Incorporated Association of Preparatory Schools. He retired in 1958, since when the School has been asministered as an Educational Trust under a Board of Governors. The Trust is non-profit making and the School is inspected and recognised as efficient by the Ministry of Education. Until the Second World War the School was at Folkestone but, being compelled to leaqve that area, it moved to Westbury in North Bickinghamshire, close to the borders of Oxfordshire and Northamptonshire.
Beachborough Prospectus
Bedford Modern School owes its foundation to Sir William Harper, knight, and his wife Dame Alice. Harper, who was born in Bedord in 1496, rose to prominance as a member of the Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors, eventually becoming Lord Mayor of London in 1561. From as early as the 1540S, when he had built a school house in St. Paul's Square, Bedford, he had shown a deep interest in the provision of a grammar school in his home town, asnd in 1552 he was instrumental in obtaining letters from King Edward VI allowing Bedford Corporation to receive and maintain an educational and charitable endowment. Some years later he purchased just over 13 acres of land in Holborn which he and Dame Alice conveyed to the Corporation in 1566, thus establishing the endowment which continues to maintain the activities of the Harpur Trust.
Bedford Modern School Prospectus.
The Schoolwas originally the junior department of the Norwich High School for Boys and became a separate unit known as the Langley Junior School when the Senior School moved to Langley. In 1978 the name changed to Beech Hill, the Preparatory School for Langley.
Beech Hill Prospectus
Bishop's Court was founded as a Preparatory School in 1892 at the special request of the Bishop of Liverpool -- hence the school name. From 1920 the school increased in numbers so rapidly that new and more extensive premises were required, and, in conseqwuence, it was moved to the present site in 1924. In 1955 the school was recognised as efficient by the Ministry of Education and becme a member of the Incorporated Association of Preoaratory Schools. The Augustinian Fathers of the Vice-Province of England and Scotland known familiarly as "Austin Friars", assumed control in 1967.
Bishop's Court School Prospectus
When Miss Tubbs founded her Preparatory School for the sons of young gentleman in 1881 she looked to the future with confidence. This confidence was well justified, for a hundred years later the school was flourishing.
Fanfare (Mount House School), Autumn 1988.
