A History of Giggleswick School from its Foundation, 1499 to 1912

James Carr, capellanus, earliest date 1499--Rood Chantry of Giggleswick Parish Church--The Earliest Records of the Carr Family--Private Adventure School--Lease of Ground for a S...

John Nowell--Edward VI Charter--"Free" School--Position of the Vicar--Master and Usher--New Endowment from S. Andrew's College, Acaster--School Seal--Statutes of 1592--Archbisho...

Shute Minute-Book--Clapham Bequests--Scholarships at the University--Potations--Tennant's Gift--Tennant's Bequest--Josias Shute--Burton Rent-charge--Election of Scholars--Purcha...

Rev. Rowland Lucas, Head Scoulmaster--Giggleswick and Cambridge-- Anthony Lister, Vicar--Abraham de la Prynne--Richard Frankland--Founder of Nonconformity--Rathmell Academy--Sam...

John Carr, A.B.--A Family Circle--Richard Thornton--Conditions of Mastership--Collection of Rent and Masters' Stipends--John Cookson, "probe edoctus"--William Paley, Master--The...

Appointment of a New Master--Suggested Examiners--Qualifications Necessary--Strong Field of Candidates--Appointment of Ingram--Elementary Education--William Stackhouse, Writing...

Attitude of the Governors--Aim of Education--Scheme of 1844--Its Defects--Bishop of Ripon--Appointment of Butterton--New School Built--Description--Prize Poems--Hastings' Exhibi...

Blakiston appointed Master--Matthew Wood, Usher--John Langhorne--Arthur Brewin--Examiner's Report--Decrease of Numbers--Difficulties of the Scheme of 1844--Blakiston and Wood--M...

Temporary Headmaster--Thomas Bramley--Michael Forster--Hostel--Rev. George Style--Private Boarding House--Endowed Schools Act 1869--New Scheme of Management 1872--Free Education...

Mr. Morrison's offer--Aim of Architecture--The Purpose of a Dome--Value of a School Chapel--Foundation Stone laid--Interior of the Chapel--Organ--Dome--Windows--Cricket Pavilion...

W. W. Vaughan--Changes made--Importance of English--Higher Certificate--Resignation of Dr. Watts--Style Mathematical Prizes--Waugh Prize--Dormitories Re-named--Gate-house--Giggl...

Giggleswick School for over four hundred years has lived a life apart, unconscious of the world outside: but its life has not therefore been a placid one. Real dangers have cont...

Giggleswick Church had been given to the Priory of Finchale by Henry de Puteaco about 1200, and Finchale was a cell of the Prior and Convent of Durham. So from that date till th...

From the fifteenth century at least the local Grammar School was the normal place of education for all classes but the highest. In 1410 an action for trespass was brought by two...

Christopher Shute was appointed Vicar of Giggleswick in 1576. He had been a Sizar of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, in 1561 and graduated B.A. in 1564, M.A. 1568, and B.D. in 1580. H...

The Rev. Rowland Lucas was a native of Westmorland and had been educated at Kirkby under Mr. Leake. In 1626 he was admitted to Christ's College, Cambridge, as a Sizar and took h...

John Armitstead ceased to acknowledge the receipt of his wages in 1704 and died in 1712. Just as he had belonged to a local family and had been educated at the School and Christ...

On the death of William Paley the Governors at once began the task of finding a successor. They inserted in the newspapers an advertisement to the effect that a vacancy had occu...

In 1834 the Governors felt some doubt respecting the legality of the last Statutes of 1795 and proposed to bring forward some Scheme to obtain sufficient power for the managemen...

The resignation of Dr. Butterton did not in any way modify the determination of the Governors to hold by the existing Scheme. A printed notice of the qualifications required by...

On the resignation of Mr. Blakiston, in March, 1866, the Rev. Thomas Bramley, an Assistant Master, was appointed temporary Headmaster. The Charity Commissioners had been asked f...

I have an idea in my head of offering to build the School a Chapel with a Dome as an architectural experiment, employing Jackson, the famous Oxford Architect. One would call it...

In January, 1904, the Governors of the School assembled to elect a new Headmaster. Their choice fell unanimously on Mr. William Wyamar Vaughan. Mr. Vaughan had been educated at...