1869-73
1881 |
One result of the Endowed School Acts and the Elementary Education Act
was that the Poor School would not be allowed to continue after such time
as the Local School Board had provided adequate elementary "Board"
schools. Another Scheme, prepared under the supervision of the Charity
Commissioners, established the Whitgift Educational Foundation. At the end
of the year the Poor School was closed, and it's boys dispersed to the
Board Schools or to the Church School that had been built nearby. |
| 1882 | In January
the Poor School's premises were opened to new pupils, but under the same Headmaster, as a
secondary school of the third grade, called Whitgift Middle School. At the same time the "middle-class
School was unequivocally designated a first-grade school and took the name of Whitgift Grammar
School; in nearly all respects it continued as before with the same staff, pupils and curriculum. |
| 1889 | Old Palace
School was founded by the Sisters of the Church. |
| 1897 | The old
Schoolhouse and the Schoolmaster's House were demolished for road-widening and development
purposes; at the same time the Whitgift Hospital was first seriously threatened with demolition. |
| 1907 | The Headmaster
of Whitgift Grammar School was elected to membership of the Headmasters' Conference. |
| 1920 | Both schools
were placed on the Direct Grant List |
| 1923 | After many
years' threats of demolition on account of Croydon Corporation's road-widening schemes, the
Whitgift Hospital became a protected building under Town and Country Planning Acts. |
