KING EDWARD VII SCHOOL MAGAZINE Dec 1950

Our History

AS a permanent record of the antecedents of the School, a bronze tablet has been placed in the vestibule by the Governors of the Grammar School Exhibition Trust. The following is a copy of its wording.

HEADMASTERS OF THE FREE GRAMMAR SCHOOL OF JAMES KING OF ENGLAND WITHIN THE TOWN OF SHEFFIELD IN THE COUNTY OF YORK.

1604-1606	JOHN SMITH.
1606-1608	HENRY SAXTON, M.A.
1608-1615	JOHN HANCOCK, M.A.
1615-1619	GEORGE YOUNG, B.A.
1619-1622	ANDREW WADE, M.A.
1622 (acting)	GEORGE WADE.
1623-1625	GODFREY MASON.
1625-1644	THOMAS RAWSON, B.A.
1645-1648	WILLIAM YOUNG, B.A.
1648	ROGER STEARE, B.A.
1648-1651	PETER LANFITT, B.A.
1651-1658	WILLIAM WHITAKER, M.A.
1658-1663	FRANCIS POTTS, M.A.
1664-1696	THOMAS BALGUY, M.A.
1696-1698	CHARLES DAUBUZ, M.A.
1698-1703	MARMADUKE DRAKE, M.A.
1703-1709	GEORGE LEE, B.A.
1709-1720	WILLIAM HUMPTON, M.A.
1720-1734	CHRISTOPHER ROBINSON, M.A.
1734-1748	JOHN CLIFF, B.A.
1748-1759	THOMAS MARSHALL, B.A.
1759-1776	JOHN SMITH, M.A.
1776 (acting)	EDWARD GOODWIN.
1776-1809	CHARLES CHADWICK, B.A.
I809	JOSEPH RICHARDSON, M.A.
1810-1818	JOSEPH WILSON, B.A.
1818-1830	WILLIAM WHITE, M.A.
1830-1863	PERCIVAL BOWEN, M.A.
1863-1884	JOSEPH E. JACKSON, M.A., Ph.D., D.C.L.
1884-1899	EDWARD SENIOR, M.A.
1899-1905	ARTHUR B. HASLAM, M.A.

PRINCIPALS OF SHEFFIELD COLLEGIATE SCHOOL.

1836-1842	THOMAS W. MELLOR, M.A.
1843-1853	GEORGE A. JACOB, M.A., D.D.
1853-1855	WILLIAM S. GRIGNON, M.A.
1856-1860	EDWARD D. WARD, M.A.
1861-1871	GEORGE B. ATKINSON, M.A.
1872-1879	JAMES CARDWELL, M.A.
1880-1884	JOHN J. DYSON, M.A.

HEADMASTERS OF WESLEYAN PROPRIETARY GRAMMAR SCHOOL (Later WESLEY COLLEGE)

1837-1853	JOHN MANNERS, M.A.
1853-1888	HENRY McE. SHERA, M.A., LL.D.
1888-1891	JOSEPH J. FINDLAY, M.A., Ph.D.
1891-1905	VALENTINE W. PEARSON, B.A.

The Sheffield Grammar School was founded under the Will (proved at Lincoln on 4th September 1603) of Thomas Smith of Crowland, Lincolnshire, a Sheffield-born Attorney, and received its Charter, dated 4th May 1604, from James I, with the title of "The Free Grammar School of James King of England - within the Town of Sheffield in the County of York."

The Free Grammar School began in a building in School Croft at the junction of Campo Lane and Townhead Street, previously occupied by an earlier Grammar School which was in existence in 1564 and which was certainly considerably older.

In 1825 the School moved to new buildings in St. George's Square, Sheffield, built on land provided by the Church Burgesses Trust which is now occupied by the Department of Applied Science of the University of Sheffield.

In 1885 the Governors sold the School premises in St. George's Square and purchased the Collegiate School premises in Collegiate Crescent, Sheffield, to which they moved in the same year, the School being commonly known as "The Sheffield Royal Grammar School."

By Order of the Board of Education, sealed on 13^th March 1905, a scheme was established for the sale of the buildings, equipment and playing fields of the Sheffield Royal Grammar School to the Corporation of Sheffield for £ 12,000. The Corporation at the same time acquired the buildings and equipment of Wesley College, Glossop Road, Sheffield, and established a new School on these premises which became known as King Edward VII School, Sheffield.

August, 1950.