School for Young Ladies

14/07/1855

Information

The following notice appeared in the Peterborough Advertiser:

The MISSES STRICKLAND RESPECTFULLY inform their Friends and the Public that they intend opening a School after the Midsummer Vacation, for the instruction of young Ladies. With hopeful confidence they solicit a share of public patronage, assuring their friends that every effort will be used for advancement of the pupils entrusted to their charge. The First Quarter will commence on Monday July 16th 1855. TERMS - Young Ladies are Boarded and Instructed in Writing, Arithmetic, Geography, History etc., at £18 18s per annum. Day pupils: 10s 6d per quarter. Laundress: Two Guineas per annum. A Quarter's Notice previous to the removal of a young lady. Each young lady to be provided with a pair of sheets, a fork and spoon, which will be returned on their leaving. 34 Cowgate Street, Peterborough.

Taken from The Peterborough Book of Days by Brian Jones, The History Press, 2014.

Search and filter

Objects

Archaeology
Art
Costume
Geology
Natural History
Records
Social History
Treasure

Locality

Local
Global
National

Philanthropist Mary Deacon Christened

1654

Information

Mary Deacon nee Harvey was christened on 15th June 1654 in Spalding. She was known as the wife of philanthropist Thomas Deacon and she was as much a keen philanthropist as he was. Thomas died in 1721, leaving money to start and maintain a school, but so did his wife. According to the memorial to Thomas and Mary Deacon, she gave £250 for a school in Fleet (near Spalding) which had begun in 1727 and provided free education to poor children. She also bequeathed money for St John's vicarage and the Grammar School (The King’s School).

Mary died without any living children, so her money and effects were shared out between her nephews and nieces and worthy beneficiaries. Her collection of books were offered to the Spalding Gentlemen's Society, where her nephew Joseph Sparke was a prominent member; he had also been a founder member of the Peterborough gentlemen's Society too. The society would not open its doors to women for over 200 years, but she wished for her books to be sent to a society that was based in her birthplace and had a family link.

The memorial to Thomas and Mary Deacon can be found inside Peterborough Cathedral along with their graves.

Literature , School , The Deacon's School

Please rotate your device

School for Young Ladies

14/07/1855

Information

Search and filter

Time periods

Themes

Significant Events

People

Buildings

Objects

Decades

Curriculum Subjects

Places

Locality

Philanthropist Mary Deacon Christened

1654

Information

Related stories