Hawkshead Grammar School in

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was founded in 1585 by

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, the incumbent Archbishop of York, whose family came from the Hawkshead area. He petitioned Queen

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for a charter to set up the school and endowed it will sufficient land and property for the education to be free, and for many years it was known as 'The Free Grammar School of Hawkshead'. The early School taught

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, Greek and sciences, including arithmetic and geometry. At its peak in 1750-1800, it had a very good reputation for teaching Maths and getting boys into Cambridge, and attracted pupils from across the North of England and southern Scotland. Although the School closed in 1909, the building functions today as Hawkshead Grammar School Museum and is open to the public. The building is

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Notable former pupils & teachers

Scholars included: * Poet

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* Reverend

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) *

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* Sir

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Daniel Rawlinson Daniel Rawlinson (died 1679), of Graythwaite and London, was a vintner in London, where he kept the Mitre Tavern on Fenchurch Street. Biography Rawlinson was educated at Hawkshead Grammar School. He was a friend of Samuel Pepys and is mentione ...

Thomas Alcock Beck Thomas Alcock Beck (1795–1846) was an English author known for writing ''Annales Furnesienses'' (1844), a history of Furness Abbey, which was dedicated by permission to Her Majesty Queen Victoria, and which contained twenty-six steel engravings ...

Henry Ainslie Henry Ainslie (21 March 1760 – 1834) was a physician. He was the son of the Kendal physician James Ainslie. Educated at Hawkshead Grammar School and then Pembroke College, Cambridge (where he graduated Senior Wrangler and was second in the ...

* Montague Ainslie *

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* Edward Baines *

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* Thomas Young (animal welfare writer)

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Hawkshead Grammar School Museum website
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Notable former pupils & teachers

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