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1500 |
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1550 |
In the 16th century city merchants collaborated with godly preachers and established parish grammar schools to teach Latin and the scriptures.
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Hampton School was founded when Robert Hammond left £7 in his will of 1556 to erect a small schoolroom in the churchyard.
Other endowments provided for “an honest schoolmaster...to teach six poor children of the parish to write, to read and to know the catechism”.
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1557 |
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1600 |
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1612 |
Between 1612 and 1614 nearly half those sentenced to death in Middlesex who could read and write got off with a lesser punishment
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1625 |
By early in the 17th century up to three quarters of London’s tradesmen and artisans and a half of craftsmen and shopkeepers could sign their name.
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The earliest reference to a school in Twickenham is found in St Mary’s church records. It was situated close to the Embankment and shortly afterwards a girls (maids) department opened, possibly in a separate building.
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1640 |
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Dr Fuller teaching at a school on Twickenham Riverside, on the site of the house later known as Mount Lebanon
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1658 |
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St Mary's Twickenham school closed or moved elsewhere.
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1669 |
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St Mary's school Twickenham restarted with William Lawrence as schoolmaster.
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1686 |
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