A History of Kibworth Beauchamp Grammar School

by

BERNARD ELLIOTT, B.A.

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Click here to see what the Victoria County History has to say about the school.

Click here to see the report on the School prepared for the trustees in 1865 (possibly by the Rev. J B Hildebrand).

Click here for the Scheme of Management under the Endowed Schools Acts 1869, 1873, and 1874.

Click here for an article by Betty Ward on Kibworth’s Schools in thwe 1920s and 1930s.

(The 1865 report and the article by Betty Ward are from the website of the Kibworth History Society.)

To

JOHN E. ELLIOT

Headmaster, 1927--55.

CONTENTS

Foreword by the Headmaster

Introduction

Chapter

1. Origins and Early History

2. The School at the Time of the Reformation and in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth

3. The Period of the Early Stuarts (1603-1660)

4. From the Restoration to the End of the Seventeenth Century

5. The Decline of the School in the Eighteenth Century

6. The Revival of the School in the Nineteenth Century

7. The Scheme of 1877

8. The Period of the Last Three Clerical Headmasters (1877-1906)

9. The School during C. L. Ryley's Headship (1907-1927)

10. The Expansion of the School under Mr. Elliot (1927-1955)

11. The Future

Illustrations

1. Mr. J. E. Elliot

2. Map of School Lands

3. "The Old Building"

Appendices

I The Headmasters of the School

II Assistant Staff

III Names of Pupils in the School, 1886 onwards

IV The Endowed Lands of the School

V Some Pupils leaving Kibworth for places of Higher Education since 1929

VI Number of children attending the School

VII Balance Sheet for 1905

VIII Governors of the School

IX K.B.G.S. O.S.A.

X Roll of Honour

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Book published 1957; web page last revised 29 January 2013