SCHOOLS INQUIRY COMMISSION.

Vol. X.

LONDON DIVISION.

SPECIAL REPORTS OF ASSISTANT COMMISSIONERS,

AND

DIGESTS OF INFORMATION RECEIVED.

Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty.

PRINTED BY GEORGE E. EYRE AND WILLIAM SPOTTISWOODE,
PRINTERS TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.

FOR HER MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE.

1868.

PREFACE.

THIS volume relates to the London Division as defined by the Registrar General, and not to the larger area (the London Postal District), which forms the subject of the General Report of D. R. Fearon, Esq., the Assistant Commissioner for the Metropolitan District.

The Reports on individual schools contained in this volume are all by Mr. Fearon.

The "Digests of Information" have been compiled independently of the Assistant Commissioner. In the case of endowed schools, the information is derived partly from the Reports of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into Charities, A.D. 1819 to 1837 (and whenever this is the case a reference has been given to the volume and page); partly from the statements and documents furnished by the trustees and masters in reply to the inquiries of the Commissioners. Assistance has also been occasionally obtained from the Return of Endowed Grammar Schools, (1865). As regards the number and value of Exhibitions to the Universities, the Commissioners were favoured with information from the heads of colleges at Oxford and Cambridge.

In the case of Proprietary schools, the information has been derived from the authorities of the schools alone.*

In order to insure accuracy, these Digests were sent in draft to the trustees and to the head masters of the several schools for their revision and correction; and the alterations (if any) made by them have been adopted, whenever the plan of the volume permitted.

The Tabular Digest of Replies from Endowed Grammar Schools has undergone the same process of verification. The questions to which replies were asked for are reprinted at the end of the volume.

The Assistant Commissioner's report and the statements in the Digests concerning the present condition of the schools do not always refer to exactly the same date. The returns obtained

*The school belonging to the Middle-class School Corporation in Bath Street, City Road, has been established subsequently to the Commissioners' inquiries.