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1700 |
Squire John Richards attended a cockfight at the school, and expressed his disgust. The sport was popular in schools at the time. In Wimborne it was held on Shrove Tuesday. The Master drew names of pairs of boys: after each fight the winning cock was paired with another winner, until it came down to the last two. The boy owning the last fighting cock standing won the title of Victor and was excused from beatings for the rest of the year. It stopped in Wimborne at the beginning of the XIX century. |
1719 |
Governors order the repair of Mr Lloyd's House and School house. |
1730 |
21 December Fill Cox BA of St John's College Oxford, elected Usher, i.e. Undermaster. |
1732 |
Fill Cox becomes Master |
1748 |
Edward Butt M.A. Sizar of Emanuel College, Cambs. in 1737, MA 1741 |
1763 |
Governors minute: the mud wall against Mr Butt's garden, being much in decay, to be rebuilt in brick. Payment to be one third Hanham, one third Mr Butt, one third the Corporation. |
1769 |
Rev. Robert Gutch B.A. becomes Master on resignation of Edward Butt, who went on to be Master of the Cathedral School in Salisbury. |
1777 |
Rev. James Mayo elected Usher in place of Robert Baskett, deceased. He matriculated at Queen's Coll. Oxford 1774, BA 1777. Salary £25. He had been coached for University by Rev. Edward Butt in Salisbury in 1773. It is recounted that there was a protest from Dr Henry Good, presbiter of the Minster, that Mayo had punished his son too severely. However the Governors considered the protest and decided that the treatment was merited. First mention of the Good family, who were priests at the Minster for over 100 years. |
1779 |
David Perry Okeden records that he was sent to the school in this year and “the boys used occasionally to form the schoolroom into a theatre and represent the most celebrated plays to an audience of their friends and the local Gentry”. |
1784 |
Mary Gutch,The daughter of Headmaster, Robert Gutch, married Thomas Druitt. |
1786 |
Sir William Thomas Hanham proposes that part of Deanes Leaze become a play place for the School Boys of the Grammer School and that a wall be built. He offers to pay two thirds of the cost, if the Corporation will pay one third. Presumably this act created the playground as we knew it. Deanes Leaze was the watermeadow,often marshy and flooded, between Deanes House, residence of the Hanham family, adjacent to the Schoolhouse, and the river Stour. |
1787 |
Mr Giffard. The School House and the Parsonage House are each insured for £200. Rev. James Mayo, Usher since 1777, appointed Master, at a salary of £38, with use and occupation of the School House. |
1794 |
A record that Mayo made sundry alterations and improvements to the school buildings. |
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