This was the first H&WLHS Occasional Paper published in 1989.
It’s ISBN is 0 9515465 0 3
The paper is now out of print and so it seemed a good time to publish it on this website.
As few changes as possible have been made to the original. The only change to the text is the updating of the note on the site of the Union Workhouse in Chapter 2.
Section titles have been made into subtitles.
The sequential numbering of the notes has been retained although the notes have been moved into the chapter in which they are referenced rather than be kept in a separate section as in the original.
Three page footnotes have been changed into notes.
Underlining has been replaced by bold text.
Sources used
1. Primary
Minute Books:
The Green Coat School 1763 – 1837
Hertford Municipal Charities 1839 – 1894; 1896 – 1927; 1927 – 1967 and 1967 –
Log Books of the Green Coat School 1863 – 1889; 1890 – 1894
Churchwardens’ Books All Saints’ & St John’s 1732 – 1746; 1747 – 1771.
2. Secondary
Lewis Turnor, History of the Ancient Town & Borough of Hertford. 1830
Further Report of the Commissioners for Inquiring Concerning Charities, 1815 – 1839.
Henry Hartopp, Roll of the Mayors & Lord Mayors of Leicester. 1935,
R.W. Greaves, The Origins & Early History of Alderman Newton’s Foundation. 1938
3. Other works consulted
Dictionary of National Biography.
Robert J. Montgomery, Examinations – An account of their evolution as administrative devices in England.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Assistance by the following is acknowledged with gratitude:-
Hertfordshire County Record Office
Hertford Museum
Hertford Library
Leicestershire Record Office
Leicestershire Libraries and Information Service
The Royal Society of Arts
The National Union of Teachers
and, especially, Rosemary Bennett and Alan Greening
Len Green 1989
ABOUT THE AUTHOR •••…
LEN GREEN was a keen amateur photographer well known locally for his slide lectures on Hertford’s pioneer photographers,-the Elsdens. A Wiltshire man by birth, he came to· Hertford in 1933 to teach at the old Cowper School in London Road and, apart from War Service 1940-45, remained there and at its successor, the Hertford Secondary School (now Simon Balle) until his retirement as Deputy Headmaster in 1973. He was also a Trustee and Clerk to the Ann Dimsdale Charity.