Rotherham Grammar School

Rotherham Grammar School was a boys' grammar school in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England.

Rotherham Grammar School
Address
Moorgate Road

,
England
Information
TypeGrammar school, becoming County school
MottoLatin: Ne Ingrati Videamur
(Lest We Should Seem Ungrateful)
Established1483 (1483)
Closed1967 (1967)
Local authorityRotherham
HeadmasterMr Arthur Prust (at closure)
GenderBoys
Age11 to 18

History

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In 1482 Thomas Rotherham founded the College of Jesus in Rotherham, which was both a school and a religious institution. In March 1482 he began to build a brick building to house his college, on the site of his birthplace in Brookgate, and provided an endowment to fund a Provost and three Fellows. The college was expropriated about 1550 by King Edward VI, but was later re-founded as Rotherham Grammar School, taking the foundation by Rotherham as its origin. The school occupied a number of buildings in Rotherham before moving into a former Congregational ministers' training college on Moorgate Road in 1890.[1]

In 1967, the local education authority introduced comprehensive education in Rotherham, and the school was closed. Its buildings became a coeducational sixth form college, known as Thomas Rotherham College, which retains the old grammar school's coat of arms in its logo.[1]

Provosts' schoolmasters

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source:[2]

  • Edmund Carter, 1482–1483
  • John Bockyng, 1483 (died in office)
  • John More, from 1501
  • Robert Collier, from 1508
  • Richard Bradshaw, 1524–1525
  • William Drapour, from 1535
  • Thomas Snell, from 1548

Masters and Headmasters

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source:[2]

  • William Beck, 1566–1567
  • Thomas Woodhouse, from 1568
  • Robert Sanderson, from 1583
  • Smith, from 1616
  • Barrow, from 1620
  • Bonner, ????–????
  • Charles Hoole Rayte, from 1633
  • Graunt, ????-????
  • Barton, ????
  • Withers, from 1704
  • Rev. Christopher Stevenson, from 1725
  • Rev. Davis Pennell, from 1746
  • John Russell, from 1763
  • Tennant, from 1776
  • Rev. Richard U. Burton, from 1780
  • Rev. Benjamin Birkett, from 1810
  • Rev. Joshua Nalson, from 1839
  • Edwin A. Fewtrell, from 1841
  • R. A. Long-Phillips, from 1863
  • Rev. John J. Christie, from 1864
  • Rev. George Ohlson, from 1878
  • Rev. Thos. Granger Hutt, from 1883
  • Rev. Hargreaves Heap, from 1884
  • W. A. Barron, from 1919
  • Frederick William Field, from 1924
  • Gilbert E. Gunner, 1949 – August 1966
  • Mr Arthur Prust, September 1966 – August 1967 (continued as principal of Thomas Rotherham College)

Notable pupils

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John D Brooks, Food Microbiologist

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Rotherham Grammar School". Rotherham Unofficial. 2015. Archived from the original on 14 March 2016 – via Internet Archive.
  2. ^ a b "History" (PDF). rgsoba.com. Archived from the original on 24 September 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  3. ^ Proctor, History of the Book of Common Prayer, ed 1872, pp 262-7.