Schools and Education

Entrance to the Hospital from Lewis Turnor's "History of Hertford", 1830

Christ's Hospital School, a preparatory school for the great establishment in London, is a spacious building in Fore Street, erected in 1690 and adjoins the road leading from Hertford to Ware; it will hold 400 boys, 70 to 100 girls and has an infirmary for 100 sick children; with this school were incorporated at the beginning of the present century the two other supplementary school about the year 1700 at Broxbourne and Ware.

Rev. John Thomas Bell, MA headmaster; John Dyson, Albert Stoddart & James Staples, assistant classical masters; Francis Sykes, reading & writing master; William Henry Hands, William Marks & James Kemp, assistant reading & writing masters; Miss Alice Elizabeth King, head mistress, Miss Frances Newham & Miss Alice Dore, assistant mistresses; John Tasker Evans MD medical officer; John Francis Barter Sharpe, steward; Miss Mary Ludlow matron.

Kelly's Directory for Hertfordshire, 1882

 I881 Census:         Staff          Boys         Girls

Medal relating to Christs Hospital, auctioned on eBay in November 2004
edge engraved Louisa Allen Goodburn 1861

See William Lempiere's A History of the Girls' School of  Christ's Hospital, London, Hoddesdon and Hertford
and D. R. West's Half to Remember (Autobiography of headmistress, 1942-1972)

The Chapel, Christs Hospital - posted 1909?

See also GOODMAN, Christs Hospital, Hertford, late 17th century
and SPARROW, Christs Hospital, Hertford, 1822

Surviving records of the school are held in the Guildhall Library.

There is a web page for Hertford and information on the history of the hospital on the Hertford.net web site.

If you can add to the information given above tell me.

Page updated December 2006