List of English and Welsh endowed schools (19th century)
Standard name Other names Foundation Status now Comments
Bala Grammar School Ysgol y Berwyn 1712 Comprehensive Rev Edmund Mayrick , Chancellor of St Davids , founded and endowed with £15 p.a . and five acres for 30 poor boys of North Wales
Bangor Friars School Ysgol Friars 24 March 1561 Comprehensive Geoffrey Glynne LL.D bequeathed 'The Friar House ' in Bangor to Maurice , late Bishop of Rochester and William , late Bishop of Bangor to the use and behoof of a Grammar School having continuance for ever ... for the better government and instruction of boys ... ten poor scholars
Beaumaris Grammar School Ysgol David Hughes 1609 Comprehensive Lewis Owen , Serjeant of the Larder , bequeathed £20 p.a . for two scholars of Jesus College , Oxford to come from the grammar school
Bôd-Twnog Grammar School Ysgol Botwnnog 1615 Comprehensive Henry Rowlands , Bishop of Bangor endowed a grammar school near Pwllheli , Gwynedd but left it in a poor state
Hawarden Grammar School The Free Grammar School at Hawarden in the County of Flint 1609 Comprehensive Founded by George Ledsham , gentleman and steward of the Inner Temple , London by his will of 4 February 1606 left £300 to a free grammar school forever . During the 1th century , the Gladstone family became landowners of Hawarden and heavily involved with the school ; a new school board became non-denominational and governed by the National Society of Education and Learning : Sir Stephen Glynne was headmaster ( 1848-1851 ) . By 1870 there were 90 boys . Hawarden won High School of the Year Award 2016
Llan Egryn Grammar School The Free Grammar School at Llan Egryn in the County of Merioneth 1648 Founded by Hugh Owen of Tal y Bont ( near Llanegryn ) . Endowed it with £20 p.a . by the Peniarth estate . His son , William Owen , mercer , of London , endowed it with further £400 funded in trust . The Owen family continued its endowment from the Mercers Company of London . Up to four boys annually became apprentices , rather than offered university student awards . William Edward Watkyn Wynn MP was one of the trustees and the rectors of Dollgellau , who with the Owens expanded the school , which in 1812 was in serious debt
Llanrwst Grammar School Ysgol Dyffryn Conwy , Conwy Valley School 1612 Comprehensive Sir John Wynn , 1st Baronet ; there is some doubt here , in 1610 by Sir John Wynn . The teaching was located in the building called the 'upper school ' . In 1960 it was renamed Ysgol Dyffryn Conwy ( Conwy Valley School ) to reflect the fact that the school served the wider Conwy Valley . In February 2005 the pupils were all moved to the Sodexo-owned site on Nebo Road
Ruabon Grammar School Rhiw Abon Grammar School , in the County of Denbigh 1598
Ruthin Grammar School The Grammar School at Ruthin in the County of Denbigh 1598 Founded by Dr Gabriel Goodman , Dean of Westminster for the instruction of the boys of the Town of Ruthin - Ruthin , Llan Fwrog , Llan Rhydd , Llanynys , and Llan Elidan
Wrexham Grammar School The Free School at Wrexham in the County of Denbigh 3 October 1728 Founded by Dame Dorothy Jeffreys and endowed with £18 p.a. , later augmented to £80 p.a
North Wales
This is a list of endowed schools in England and Wales existing in the early part of the 19th century. It is based on the antiquarian Nicholas Carlisle's survey of Endowed Grammar Schools published in 1818, but is referenced to the work of the Endowed Schools Commission half a century later. Most English and Welsh endowed schools were at the time described as grammar schools, but by the eighteenth century there were three groups: the old public schools (Eton and eight others); schools in manufacturing towns that innovated to some extent in syllabus; and more traditional grammar schools in market towns and rural areas. A medieval grammar school was one which taught Latin, and this remained an important subject in all the schools, which generally followed the traditions of Oxford and Cambridge, from which almost all of their graduate schoolmasters came. Some of the schools listed by Carlisle had long been fee-paying public schools, although in most cases (as at Eton and Winchester) retaining some provision for the teaching of scholars who paid reduced or no fees. An endowment for educational purposes had an original purpose, often intended by the founder or founders to be legally binding, but the objects of such endowments were not always fully honoured by those controlling the schools. Carlisle compiled his list by means of a questionnaire, which was not always answered. The Commission's report built on his research, while not accepting all his claims on the continuity of certain schools from monastic and chantry foundations, which affected the dating of schools. The chronological list in the report has numerous further details of endowments. There is little consistency in the actual names of grammar schools from this period. Many were called free schools. Carlisle used some unorthodox spellings, and he listed Hampshire under its alternative historical name of Southamptonshire.