NOTES FROM THE TRUSTEES' MINUTE BOOKS

By A NEIGHBOURING SCRIBE.

1851 "The Rev. J. Cave-Browne having presented the Committee and the Subscribers with a History of the School from its foundation-as a parting token of his interest in the School, on his resigning the curacy of the Parish Church in consequence of his appointment to be one of the Chaplains of the Honourable East India Company-Resolved that the sincere thanks of the Committee be offered to Mr. Cave-Browne for the care and diligence which he has devoted to the investigation of the subject, and for his general attention to the interests of the School, etc, etc”.

"The Rector and Churchwardens were granted the use of the Schoolroom ... for Divine Service during the repairs of the Church."

1852 The use of the schoolroom was "granted for the Luncheon on the day of the opening of the Church to meet the Lord Bishop of the diocese.

Sermons preached by the Lord Bishop of Lichfield, Rev. Robert Gregory, and Rev. Prebendary Thomas Jackson produced collections of £30.l ls.2d. on behalf of this School.

The Treasurer stated that fifty of the clothed boys, including the Lawrence boys from the Waterloo Schools, were going ... to the Anniversary of the Charity Children in St. Paul's.

The Schools were closed on the day of the funeral of the late Duke of Wellington.

1854 The Rev. John Fentiman Lingham appointed Rector of Lambeth upon the preferment of the Rev. Charles Browne Dalton (late Rector) to be Vicar of Highgate.

The first official inspection was conducted by the Rev. W. H. Brookfield, one of H.M. Inspectors, at the special request of the Committee, in place of the examination hitherto conducted by the clergy. The Inspector's Report is recorded as follows:-

"I am bound to express my sense of the cheerfulness and courtesy with which Mr. Stevenson, the master, assisted me on that occasion. To him it is but justice to state, that measured by the standard usually prevalent in schools of the older organisation, he discipline and attainments were of creditable character, and considerably better than I have often found in such schools upon a first inspection"

1855 Mr. George John Stevenson resigned the Head Mastership, 29th Sept., 1855. (Mr. Stevenson was appointed in 1848, in succession to Mr. Edward Everill, who retired on a pension of £20 per annum, after 31 years' service, and died on 20th Sept., 1858.) Mr. William Bailey was appointed Head Master in succession to Mr. Stevenson.

1856 "Five of the boys have been examined by one of H.M. Inspectors of Schools for the office of Pupil Teacher; should they have proved successful they will, with the consent of their parents, be apprenticed to the Master for five years.”

A legacy of £100 was received from the Executors of Mr. Wood, deceased.

1857 A second Assistant Master was appointed, in accordance with H.M. Inspector's requirements.

1858 A legacy of £538 173. 8d. was received from the Executors of the late Miss Billington, and was invested in Government Stock by the Rector, Mr. Woronzow Greig, and Mr. Charles Collambell.

In consequence of a large increase in number of boys in daily attendance a second railway arch was fitted up as an additional Schoolroom. (The boys in average attendance in 1855 were about 180, whereas in 1858 they had increased to 390.)

1859 Mrs. Bailey (wife of the Head Master) acted as second Assistant Teacher during an interval.

1860 A course of drill for the boys was recommended by the Head Master. The Committee approved, subject to cost being defrayed by the boys. At the instance of the Rector, it was resolved, "That, with a view to extending the usefulness of the School, classes be formed and a superior education be given, for which cz specific weekly charge of 6d. be made. "

1861 A clock was presented to the School by Mr. Felix Slade (this is still in the hall). Mr. Thomas Edmund Heller (of Cheltenham) was appointed Head Master vice William Bailey, -who resigned through ill health at Christmas.

1862 The average attendance at this time appears to have been about 350.

"That steps be taken to establish a night school .... each scholar paying 3d. weekly. "

That the clothing (hitherto supplied to certain boys) be discontinued as vacancies occur. "

1863 His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury visited the School, expressed himself as being much gratified, and requested that his name should be inscribed as patron of the school.

Mr. Henry Longley (son of the Archbishop, and afterwards Sir Henry Longley, one of the Charity Commissioners) took a leading part in the School management.

1868 Mr. Felix Slade bequeathed £200 to the School.

1869 Committee appointed at Annual General Meeting: the Rector, Rev. E. M. Walker, Messrs. Charles Collambell, W. Famfield, William Kershaw, George W. Barnard, W. Barnett, Matthew Miles, J. W. Stratton, F. A. Waring, and Robert Taylor, together with Rev. E. H. Fisher, as Hon. Secretary.

Upon Mr. Fisher's appointment to the incumbency of St. Mark, Kennington, the secretarial duties were undertaken by the Rev. R. Ffrench- Blake.

1870 Resolved: "That in consideration of his long and valuable services to the School, by which its efficiency has so Mach developed and its numbers so Mach increased, an addition of£40 be made to Mr. T E. Heller's salary as from Ist January, 1870. " The Late John Hernanian, Esq. A.K.C

1871 Mr. G. W. Barnard undertook the Treasurership.

1873 The Rev. J. W. Home was appointed Hon. Secretary vice The Rev. E. Ffrench Blake.

Mr. T. E. Heller resigned the Head Mastership, and the record is that "The Committee cannot accept Mr. Heller's resignation without entering on their minutes their great regret that the tie which has so long bound Mr. Heller to the School is now to be severed. They gratefully appreciate the valuable services he has rendered to the School during his tenure of office as Read Master, and they attribute the high position the School has attained to the unwearied diligence and ability with which he has conducted it. The Committee sincerely desire for him every blessing and success in the new sphere of work to which he has been called."

Mr. John Hernaman was selected, from about 80 applicants, to succeed Mr. Heller as from Midsummer.

1874 Mr. William Kershaw appointed Treasurer vice G. W. Barnard resigned Rev. J. W. Home resigned the Hon. Secretaryship, which then devolved upon the Rev. George Elliott.

1875 The Rev. Crawfurd Tait took palt in the School management.

1879 The Rev.Charles Howard Wright, Curate-in-charge during the illness and absence, of the Rev. J. F. Lingham, Rector, participated in the School management.

1880 Mr. Walter William Jones was appointed a Manager of the School.

1883 Patronage of the School was accepted by His Grace the Most Reverend Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury, in succession to the late Most Rev. Archibald Campbell Tait, deceased.

The Rev.John Fentiman Lingham, in acknowledging a record of gratitude upon his retirement from the Rectorate of Lambeth, briefly reviewed " the work done, extending over nearly thirty years, and in feeling language prayed for a continued blessing on all connected with the Schools. "

1884 Mr. William Wootton was appointed Auditor. The Rev. the Hon.Francis Godolphin Pelham was installed as Chairman upon his appointment as Rector of Lambeth, the other Trustees being Messrs.Charles Collambell, J.P., Edward Robert Dann, Henry Doulton, Henry Lewis Doulton, Leopold Field, George Henry Jennings, Sidney Jennings, Walter William Jones, Henry Kemshead, Robert Paris, Charles Sangster, Frederick George Steane, Grimble Vallentin, Charles Richard White, and William Wootton.

Decided that the School be enlarged and adapted to provide more accommodation and meet the requirements, of the Board Of Education.

1885 Messrs. Waring & Nicholson supplied plans and specifications, and work entrusted to Messrs. Crocker for extension of School premises.

The extension was accomplished by dividing the large schoolroom into four classrooms, with a large hall over, having access by stone staircases at either end. Canon Pelham raised over £1000 by subscriptions, concerts, and bazaars.

1888 A Reading-room was projected to be built over the Board Room upon plans submitted by Messrs. Waring 8; Nicholson.

1889 The cost of the new Reading-room, sundry structural alterations, and incidental charges paid to Messrs. Lapthorne 8; Co. amounted to £387 l9s. 3d., and was defrayed by voluntary contributions raised by Canon Pelham.

1890 Canon Pelham was asked to undertake any necessary negotiations in affiliating the School with King's College, London, as a Practising School for the training of teachers in the new Day Colleges.

"That the principle be adopted that some of the parents of the children attending the School be elected to serve on the School Committee. "

1892 The drainage and sanitary arrangements were reconstructed by Messrs. Doulton at considerable cost. This expenditure was raised by subscription and other means devised by Canon Pelham.

1895 The Rev. John Andrewes Reeve, M.A., was appointed a Trustee upon his induction to the Rectorate of Lambeth.

The management of the three Lambeth Parish Church Schools was merged in one body of Governors for all purposes other than those affecting the trusts of each school.

1897 By the death of Sir Hemy Doulton, 17th November, this School was deprived of an excellent Trustee. His good work as a parishioner and great employer of labour will survive to the advantage of Lambeth and perpetuate his memory.

1898 Mr. Walter William Jones, a Trustee and sometime Treasurer of the Lambeth Parish Church Schools, died 11th August.

"Life's race well run,
Life's work well done."

1899 Mr. John Hernaman, A.K.C., died at the School House, Friday, 24th March.

"The Trustees and Managers desire to place upon record an expression of their deep regret in the loss that they and all concerned in this School have sustained by the death offer. Hernaman, who was elected Head Master in 1873, and bad always fulfilled the responsible duties of his office with a zeal and thoroughness that has rendered his loss most keenly felt; he had secured the confidence and affection of his pupils and the high esteem of all those with whom he was associated. "

Mr. John Edward Wood was, at a special meeting, 15th May, selected from 56 applicants "to succeed to the work of the late Mr. Hernaman, "the Trustees of the Lawrence Charity and the Mercers' Company, as representing Rich's Trust, concurring in the selection. Mr. Wood assumed the duties of Head Master, 28th June, 1899.

The London and South Western Railway Company notified the Trustees that the School property and adjoining Savings Bank premises had been scheduled in their Bill for acquirement in the extension and widening of their railways 1900, Mr. Charles Barker (valuer), instructed by Messrs. Honey & Honey, the solicitors to the Trustees, entered a claim of £22,000 against the L. 8; S.W. Railway Co. for acquirement of the School property.

1901 Negotiations failing to effect agreement, the Trustees' claim was referred to settlement by a jury.

Mr. Joseph Arthur Reeve was appointed Architect for the new School. 1902. Dr. Yeatman-Biggs, Bishop Suffragan of Southwark (afterwards Bishop of Worcester) presided at a special meeting, when a suggestion that Archbishop Tenison's Lambeth Girls' School (buildings in High Street being condemned) should be rebuilt on the same site with the Boys' School, was discussed and rejected.

The compensation claim by the Trustees for the Railway Company's acquirement of the School, the Master's house, and the freehold interest in the adjoining Savings Bank, came before the Sheriff of London and a special jury at Red Lion Square, l 7th March, 1902. The Governors present in Court were Mr. Alderman and Trustee Grimble Vallentin, Mr. Churchwarden W. G. Syms, Mr.William Honey,and Mr.Acting Treasurer and Hon. Correspondent, W. Willie Jones. The jury having viewed the property, some expert evidence was given and, by the advice of counsel, the Governors concurred in "a verdict for £17,000, to include the leasehold interest in the arch held for 999 years. "

A site for the new School of sufficient capacity and within the limited compass of available funds seemed unobtainable until the Patron's aid was invoked, and His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, with the concurrence of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, most kindly arranged to sell the triangular piece of land, of about half an acre, at the back of Lambeth Rectory and Union Place, for the sum of £3,750 plus costs, "for the Boys ' School in connection with the ancient or Mother Church of St. Mary, Lambeth aforesaid, and where the Boys are to be educated in the knowledge and practice of the Christian Religion as professed and taught in the Church of England and set forth in the Catechism of the said Church, and also as and for a School for the education of children and adults or children only of the Parish of St. Mary, Lambeth, aforesaid, and for no other purpose. And it is hereby declared that such Schools shall be at all times open to the inspection of the Inspectors of the Board of Education, and shall be managed and conducted according to the principles and in furtherance of the ends, aims and designs of the Incorporated National Society for Promoting Education in the Principles of the Established Church throughout England and Wales. And it is hereby declared that the investments for the time being, representing the aforesaid sum of .£3, 750 so as aforesaid paid to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England shall be hold by the said Commissioners. And the income to arise there from shall be paid to the Trustees so long as it shall appear to the said Archbishop or his successors that such School is used only as a National School in accordance with the trusts hereby declared. Provided always that all matters of differences in this respect shall be determined by the Archbishop, whose ruling on such question of differences shall be binding on all parties."

The Deed of Trust embodying the foregoing terms was executed 9th December, 1902, by Frederick, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury of Me one part, and by Francis Godolphin, Earl of Chichester, John Andrewes Reeve, Henry Lewis Doulton, George Henry Jennings, Sidney Jennings, Charles Sangster, and Grimble Vallentin, "Trustees," of the other part.

His Grace the Most Reverend Frederick Temple, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, died at Lambeth Palace, 23rd December, 1902, In memory of this great scholastic Primate, in recognition of his paternal care for the boys of Lambeth, and the better to distinguish this from other Lambeth schools, it was resolved to rename this school, " Archbishop Temple's Lambeth Boys' School"

1903 Access to the new School site was obtained by purchase of Nos. 200 and 202, Lambeth Road (Union Place), and the freehold of No. 202 being acquired the Trustees were enabled, by a munificent gift from one of their number, to construct an excellent entrance and master's house.

The old premises in Hercules Road were finally surrendered to the railway company, and for several months the School was conducted, under exceptional difficulties, in two railway arches.

1904 The Rev. George Henry Somerset Walpole, D.D., succeeded Rev. J. Andrewes Reeve as Rector of Lambeth.

The new School building was dedicated and inaugurated by the Patron, His Grace the Most Reverend Randall Thomas Davidson, D.D., K.C.V.0., Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, l 5th June, 1904, in the presence of a large and representative company.

Under the Education Act of 1902 the management of the School devolved upon four Foundation Managers and two Representative Managers. The Rector, Lord Chichester, Mr. Sidney Jennings and Mr. W. Willie Jones being appointed the former, with Mr. Councillor William Wightman, L.C.C., and Mr. Councillor Frank Briant, L.B.C., as the latter.

1905 The Trustees were reported to have received:-  

£ s d

Compensation £17,000 (less £635 14s. depreciation of stock) 16,364 6 0

Interest on temporary investments 444 0 0

Contributions by the Archbishop and a Trustee 742 1 3

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£17,550 7 3
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Whereas their payments were:-

£ s d

Cost of Sites (Freehold, Leasehold and possession) 5,235 0 0

Constructional and furnishing expenditure. 10,672 2 4

Incidental costs, fees, rents, etc. 1,888 16 8

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£17,795 19 0
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The difference, with large outlay on current account (not included in the foregoing Building Fund) created an overdraft on the Trustee's Banking Account.

The death of the Reverend Francis Godolphin Pelham, fifth Earl of Chichester, at Stanmer, Sussex, on Good Friday, was recorded with profound regret.

"A most hearty vote of thanks was unanimously accorded to Mr. Walter Wilkie Jones on his resignation, through illhealth, of the post of Hon. Correspondent of these Schools, for the very able and devoted way in which 'he has acted in this capacity during the last 22 years, " etc., etc.

At a subsequent meeting, Mr. Jones was elected a Trustee of Archbishop Temple's Lambeth Boys' School, in succession to the late Lord Chichester.

1906 Mr. Henry Sims (some time an Assistant Master at this School) assumed the duties and responsibilities of Correspondent.

The Late Rev. John Fentiman Lingham, M.A. Rector and Rural Dean of Lambeth

Public Distribution of Prizes At The Lambeth Schools By the Late Archbishop of Canterbury Tait, June 1881

Mr Hernaman stands at the right of the Archbishop. The Rector (Mr Lingham) is seated.