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FELSTED, or FELSTEAD

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 245 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FELSTED, or FELSTEAD , a See also:village of See also:Essex, See also:England, between See also:Dunmow and See also:Braintree, and to m. from See also:Chelmsford; with a station on the See also:Great Eastern railway. Felsted is only See also:note-worthy by See also:reason of its important public school, dating back to its See also:foundation as a See also:grammar school in 1564 by See also:Richard 1st See also:Baron See also:Rich, who as See also:lord See also:chancellor and chancellor of the See also:court of augmentations had enriched himself with the spoil of the adjoining See also:abbey and priory of Little Leez at the See also:dissolution of the monasteries. It became a notable educational centre for Puritan families in the 17th See also:century, numbering a See also:hundred or more pupils, under See also:Martin See also:Holbeach (1600-1670), headmaster from 1627—1649, and his successors C. Glasscock (from 165o to 1690), and See also:Simon Lydiatt (1690 to 1702). See also:John See also:Wallis and See also:Isaac See also:Barrow were educated here, and also four sons of See also:Oliver See also:Cromwell, See also:Robert, Oliver, Richard (the See also:Protector), and See also:Henry. Another era of prosperity set in under the headmastership of See also:William Trivett (1745—1830) between 1778 and 1794; but under his successors W. J. Carless (from 1794 to 1813) and E. See also:Squire (from 1813 to 1829) the See also:numbers dwindled. As the result of the See also:discovery by T. Surridge (headmaster 1835—1850), from See also:research among the records, that a larger income was really due to the foundation, a reorganization took See also:place by See also:act of See also:parliament, and in 1851, under the headmastership of Rev. A.

H. Wratislaw, the school was put under a new governing See also:

body (a revised See also:scheme coming into operation in 1876). The result under Rev. W. S. Grignon (1823-1907), the headmaster from 1856 to 1875, who may be considered almost the second founder, was the rapid development of Felsted into one of the See also:regular public See also:schools of the See also:modern See also:English type. New buildings on an elaborate See also:scale arose, the numbers increased to more than 200, and a See also:complete transformation took place, which was carried on under his successors D. S. See also:Ingram (from 1875 to 1890), H. A. See also:Dalton (to 1906), and F. See also:Stephenson, under whom large extensions to the buildings and playing-See also:fields were made.

See John Sargeaunt, See also:

History of Felsted Schoel (1889) ; and Alumni Felstedienses, by R. J. Beevor, E. T. See also:Roberts and others (1903).

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