Tag: Education policy

From THE CITY OF OXFORD HIGH SCHOOL MAGAZINE VoL. LVI, ii March 1964 no 180

From Ian (Spud) Taylor

The Reformation had led to the establishment of grammar schools in many sizeable towns in England but not in Oxford. Wolsey, who had bestowed such liberality on Christ Church, had preferred to build a school in his native Ipswich. Yet, as time went on, it became apparent that neither Magdalen Grammar School, incorporated as it was within the walls and community of the College, nor the choir schools of New College and Christ Church by concentrating on their primary purpose were meeting the needs of many local boys.

From THE CITY OF OXFORD HIGH SCHOOL MAGAZINE Vol LIV,ii April 1962 no 174

F. C. (Fred) Lay, Old Boy and then Headmaster, writes:

Although T. H. Green was recognised by his contemporaries as playing a large part in the founding of the School it is surprising that we have never reproduced in the Magazine a copy of either of the two portraits which are so well-known to all who have been here, nor has any account been given in these pages of what this remarkable man was like.