Soham Grammarians
SGS in Kelly's Directory 1875, 1904 & 1912

EXTRACT FROM KELLY’S DIRECTORY FOR 1875 FOR SOHAM

SCHOOLS

Endowed (boys), Churchgate Street, William Feather, master

EXTRACT FROM KELLY’S DIRECTORY FOR 1904 FOR SOHAM

SCHOOLS

The Endowed Grammar School for Boys, founded in the second year of James II (1686), was re-constructed in 1877, under a new scheme, as a Middle Class school, & is now a Secondary school in Div. B under the Board of Education. The junior scholarships offered by the Cambridgeshire County Council have been tenable here since 1896, & the Isle of Ely scholarships are also now tenable here; examinations are also held here in connection with the Science & Art Department of the Board of Education, South Kensington, & the school is preparatory for the examinations of the Pharmaceutical Society, the Oxford & Cambridge Local Examinations, those of the Incorporated Law Society & the Preliminary Medical examinations. In 1902 large laboratories & a room for woodwork were added. There are seven entrance scholarships, open to boys who must have attended one of the local Council Schools for three years, & awarded annually in July. The Boys’ School Charity, dating from 1687 & now applied to the Grammar school, consists of 116 acres of land in trust for the purpose of apprenticing boys of this parish, & for providing an income for the schoolmaster, the vicar for the time being one of the trustees; the same trust includes three acres of land, the moneys arising from which are applied to the repairing of “Rose Field Lane;” this charity is now administered under a scheme sanctioned by the Charity Commissioners by a body of 12 governors; chairman, Rev. J. C. Rust MA.; the school will hold 70 boys, & there are now (1904) about 65, including 25 boarders; William Henry Mould, head master; Frank L. Harrison BA. ,Frederick V. Wortley & Edward Foxell, assistant masters.

EXTRACT FROM KELLY’S DIRECTORY FOR 1912 FOR SOHAM

SCHOOLS

The Endowed Grammar School for Boys, founded in the second year of James II (1686), was re-constituted in 1877, under a new scheme, as a Middle Class school, & is now a Secondary school and under the Board of Education. The junior scholarships offered by the Cambridgeshire County Council have been tenable here since 1896, & the Isle of Ely scholarships are also now tenable here; examinations are also held here in connection with the Science & Art Department of the Board of Education, South Kensington, & the school is preparatory for the examinations of the Pharmaceutical Society, the Oxford & Cambridge Local Examinations, those of the Incorporated Law Society & the Preliminary Medical examinations. In 1902 a large laboratory & a room for woodwork were added.
There are seven foundation scholarships, open to boys who must have attended one of the local Council Schools for three years; these are awarded as occasion occurs & are in addition to those for Secondary schools for boys in the immediate district. The Boys’ School Charity, dating from 1687, & now applied to the Grammar school, consists of 116 acres of land originally bequeathed for the purpose of apprenticing boys of this parish & for providing an income for the schoolmaster, the vicar being one of the trustees; this charity is now wholly applied to the school & administered under a scheme sanctioned by the Charity Commissioners, by a body of 15 governors, 4 of whom are co-opted, 2 elected by Pembroke College Cambridge, 5 by the County Council & 4 by the Soham Parish Council; chairman, Rev. J. C. Rust MA. vicar of Soham; there are now. (1912) about 70 boys, including 15 boarders; William Henry Mould, head master ; J. A. G. Anderson. mathematics & science; E. W. Church, arts & crafts; T. A. Rennard BA. general form master & Mrs. Boyce, music mistress; T. P. Bendall, solicitor & clerk to the governors.

source: Stephen Martin (1962)