Independent Schools in Hertfordshire: Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood, Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, Berkhamsted School

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 51. Chapters: Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood, Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, Berkhamsted School, Haileybury and Imperial Service College, Royal Masonic School, Immanuel College, Bushey, St Albans School, Aldenham School, St. Edmund's College, Ware, Bishop's Stortford College, St Columba's College, St Albans, Stocks House, St Christopher School, Letchworth, Stanborough School, Watford, St Albans High School for Girls, St Margaret's School, Bushey, Tring Park School for the Performing Arts, Lochinver House School, St. Francis' College, Letchworth, Purcell School, Heath Mount School, Egerton Rothesay School, Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls, Abbot's Hill School, Rudolf Steiner School Kings Langley, Queenswood School, Princess Helena College, Chrysalis School, Westbrook Hay School. Excerpt: Merchant Taylors' School (MTS) is a British independent day school for boys, originally located in the City of London. Since 1933 it has been located at Sandy Lodge in the Three Rivers district of Hertfordshire (but within the Northwood post town). Founded in 1561 by Sir Thomas White and Sir Richard Hilles, the School is one of the original nine English Public Schools as defined by the Public Schools Act 1868. Today the School caters for approximately 860 students between the ages of 11 and 18. The school was founded in 1561 by members of the Merchant Taylors' Company. It was originally located in a manor house called the Manor of the Rose, in the parish of St. Lawrence Pountney in the City of London, where it remained until 1875. Merchant Taylors' was not the first school to be founded by members of the Merchant Taylors' Company, for the Tudor period in England was a period of expansion for education. Sir John Percival (Master of the Company in 1485, Lord Mayor of London in 1498) established a grammar school at Macclesfield in 1502, ...