HE Grammar School at Sedbergh, first founded by Roger Lupton, Provost of Eton, about 1528, and refounded by Edward VI after the Reformation, has always been closely connected with the College. Lupton himself founded two Fellowships and six Scholarships in St John's College for Sedbergh boys, and in 1588 Henry Hebblethwaite, described as a Citizen of London, but probably of Sedbergh origin, founded a Fellowship and two Scholarships with like preference. For nearly four hundred years the College and the School have thus been in close connexion. The recently published Register of Admissions to the College shews that between January 1633 and July 1715, no less than 348 Sedbergh boys were admitted to the College. Many of these became Fellows, worked for the College and got College Livings, or went out into the world and became famous in their day. The College on the other hand appointed the Head Masters, and so kept up the stream of capable boys. The one weak point in the old system was that, if the College made a bad or unfortunate appointment, it had no power of removing the Head Master. VOL. XVIII. B |