Figure 1.--Here is a school portrait of the Queen Elizabeth's Hospital School in Bristol, circa 1980. At that time boarders wore the traditional charity dress whilst dayboys were conventionally clothed - an interesting contrast.
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Figure 1.--Here is a school portrait of the Queen Elizabeth's Hospital School in Bristol, circa 1980. At that time boarders wore the traditional charity dress whilst dayboys were conventionally clothed - an interesting contrast. |
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital School in Bristol is a thriving independent school for boys aged 11 to 18. It was founde over 400 years. John Carr, a Bristol merchant whant who died in 1586, provided in his will for the establishment in Bristol of a bluecoat school on the lines of Christ's Hospital, already flourishing in London. The School's charter was granted by Queen Elizabeth I in 1590 and specifically charged it with "the education of poor children and orphans". This special and continuing responsibility is still maintained by the School's emphasis on pastoral care and by the use of its endowment income to provide a large number of day and boarding assisted places for those whose parents' means are limited. The School opened in 1590 and for years was know locally as the City school. It continued through various vicissitudes as a boarding school until 1920 when day boys were first admitted. In 1945 it became a two-form entry grammar school on the direct grant list of the then Ministry of Education. The Government decided in 1975 to end the direct grant, and the School is now fully independent, with 470 day boys and 70 boarders. In 1984 Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II graciously agreed to become the School's Patron, a fitting prelude to the commemoration in 1990 of its 400th anniversary.
Related Chronolgy Pages in the Boys' Historical Web Site
[The 1880s]
[The 1930s]
[The 1940s]
[The 1950s]
[The 1960s]
[The 1970s]
[The 1980s]
