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Hull Grammar School was an independent secondary school in Hull, England, founded around 1330 and endowed in 1486 by Dr. John Alcock. The school merged with Hull High School to form Hull Collegiate School in 2005. == History == The seventeenth oldest independent school in the U.K. and formerly one of the top Independent Schools in Kingston upon Hull, Hull Grammar School was merged with rival Hull High School in September 2005 to form the new Hull Collegiate School. Hull Grammar School was founded around 1330 and was endowed by Dr. John Alcock (Bishop of Rochester, Worcester, and Ely, and afterwards Lord Chancellor of England; founder of Jesus College, Cambridge) in 1479. The School flourished till its revenues were seized under the Chantries Act of 1547. The people of Hull objected and eventually re-established the school. In 1586 the school was declared, by inquisition, the property of the Crown. In the following year Queen Elizabeth I gave the school house, the garden, and other tenements, "formerly given to superstitious uses," to Luke Thurcross, the then mayor, and others. He, in 1604, being the only survivor of those who had obtained this grant, gave his interest in the school and gardens to four trustees for the use of the mayor and burgesses for ever. The appointment of masters was now in the hands of the Corporation, and by the charter of James I, the right of presentation was secured to them. An exhibition of £40 to Cambridge University was given to the School by Thomas Bury in 1627, and augmented by Thomas Ferries in 1630. Another scholarship of £60 a year at Clare College, Cambridge, founded by Alexander Metcalf. Amongst the eminent men who were masters of this school were the Rev. Andrew Marvell, M.A., the father of the patriot; the Rev. John Clarke, the translator of Suetonius and Sallust; and the Rev. Joseph Milner, author of the 'History of the Church.' In 1892 the endowments produce about £80 a year, for which the master taught the Classics free, but the scholars paid for other subjects, under Town Council regulations. The 20th century saw the celebration of the 500th anniversary of the endowment by official founder, Bishop Alcock, and the gradual admission of girls into the formerly boys-only School. The Education Act of 1944 made the LEA fully responsible for the school. This became just one part of the government's tripartite 'secondary education for all'. In 1969 the school became comprehensive, and remained a state comprehensive until 1988.〔() Hull City Archives, Hull Grammar School Records, 1750–2002〕 The local government reorganisation of 1974 saw education transferred from Hull City Council to the newly created Humberside County Council which ran the school until 1988 when, following reorganisation, it was renamed William Gee School for Boys. The name Hull Grammar was acquired and in 1989 a new private school carrying the name Hull Grammar School was opened. There was much dispute about which school could lay claim to rightly by the continuation of Hull Grammar, the state run William Gee School for Boys or the new private school. In 1991, Nord Anglia Education PLC, an education and training company, acquired Hull Grammar School from the administrator for £900,000. In 2003, the highly successful School (net asset value of £1,800,000) hosted 450 pupils-boys and girls-from two to 18 years of age, and registered a turnover of £2,400,000, of which £280,000 went to Nord Anglia. The School was purchased from Nord Anglia for £4,180,000 by the United Church Schools Company (affiliated to the Church of England), and merged in September 2005 with Hull High School (owned by the Company since 1890), a co-educational Independent School (with a girls-only senior school, ages 11–18) of similar size and strength. The new 'Hull Collegiate School' was moved to a new campus at Tranby Croft. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hull Grammar School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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