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Prefatory Note to the 1914 Register .
| On the 30th September, 1818, William Tuke, who had already been
responsible for the foundation of the Girls' School, suggested to the
Quarterly Meeting that a Friends' Boys' School. should be established
and carried on by that Meeting at York.
Owing to lack of support. the original project fell through, but, in
October, 1822, it was decided to start a school on premises which
belonged to the Retreat and were situate in Lawrence Street, immediately
outside Walmgate Bar, William Simpson was the Head Master. The School
was opened in January,1823. |
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In the following year the premises were acquired by the Quarterly
Meeting, and in January, 1829, that Meeting took over the management of
the School and installed John Ford, then aged 28, as Head Master.
The removal of the School to other premises was contemplated in 1843,
and actually carried out in January, 1846, when the present premises in
Bootham were acquired.
This Register is intended to cover the whole period of the School's
history from 1822 to the present time. Unfortunately, however, the early
records are very imperfect, and it has been impossible to ascertain the
names of all the pupils who attended the School during the first years
of its existence.
Forward to the 1935 Register .
This new edition of the Bootham School Register is based on the
previous Register edited by George Henry Mennell, in 1914, material for
which was largely collected by E. Mitford Abraham and F.Corder Clayton.
With very considerable modifications, the whole of the old Register is
included in this new volume.
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The 1914 Register contained 1988 names. In this revised edition there
are 2,853 names, including 21 Hon. Members of the O.Y.S.A. who were not
actually Bootham Scholars. 1,056 have died, so that on May 31st, 1935,
there were 1,776 Bootham Scholars still living.
The available records are very imperfect for a number of those who
were at Bootham during the War Years, several of whom cannot now be
traced.
My thanks are due to all those who have helped in the work, and
especially to Donald Gray, Anthony N. Pim and Christopher J. Rowntree,
for their continued valuable assistance.
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I am indebted to J. Henry Fryer and Arthur Rowntree for their aid in
revising the proofs.
SCARBOROUGH, MAY, 1935 EDGAR B. COLLINSON..
EXPLANATORY
* - indicates a
Bootham Scholar who is no longer living.
y - indicates an Honorary
Member of the 0. Y .S.A.
who was not actually a Bootham Scholar .
L - at school at LawrenceStreet.
B - at school at Bootham.
F.A.U.- Friends' Ambulance Unit.
F .W. V.R.C. - Friends' War Victims Relief Committee.
L.N.U. - League of Nations Union.
s -son.
b -born.
m -married.
d -died. |