Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Schools Inquiry Commission, 1868, Vol. 14: South-Western Division; Special Report of Assistant Commissioners, and Digests of Information Received
In the case of Proprietary schools, the information has been derived from the authorities of the schools alone. In order to insure accuracy, these Digests were sent in draft to the trustees and to the head masters of the several schools for their revision and correction; and the alterations (if any) made by them have been adopted, whenever the plan of the volume permitted. The Tabular Digest of Replies from Endowed Grammar Schools has undergone the same process of verification. The questions to which replies were asked for are reprinted at the end of the volume. The Assistant Commissioner's report and the statements in the Digests concerning the present condition of the schools do not always refer to exactly the same date. The returns obtained from the trustees and masters of Endowed Grammar Schoolsreferred most frequently to the second half - year of 1864; and, therefore, the statements in the Digests and appended Tables apply to that date, unless it be otherwise expressed. Alterations having been usually made by the Authorities of the schools where considerable change had occurred, it is believed that these accounts are true in all important respects, at the present time. The accounts of Proprietary Schools have been corrected for the present year by their respective authorities. The information respecting the numerous Endowed Schools not included in our list of Grammar and other Secondary Schools has been obtained by circulars addressed to the trustees and masters, chiefly in 1867 and 1868. In some cases, where no information was received, the amount of income from endowment has been ascertained from the latest returns made to the Charity Commissioners. A tabular account of the income of the Grammar and other Secondary Schools, and the number of pupils, exhibitions, fees, &0. For the whole of England, will be issued in a separate volume. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
