The Bradfield College register.

Date:
1909
Catalogue details

Licence: In copyright

Credit: The Bradfield College register. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE FOUNDATION OF BRADFIELD. St. Andrew’s College, Bradfield, was founded by the late Rev. Thomas Stevens, M.A., Rector of Bradfield, and was first opened as a School in January, 1(850, and by Deed of Settlement, bearing date i6th May, 1859, was made a Perpetual Foundation ‘ for the encouragement of religious and useful learning, and for the careful education of Boys, as loving children of the Church of England and at the same time and place the freehold site with the College buildings and playfields, containing 13 . i .0 acres were granted and conveyed by the Founder to the Right Flonourable George William Lyttleton; the Right Honourable William Ewart Gladstone, D.C.L.; Sir William Heathcote, Baronet, D.C.L., Members of Parliament for the University of Oxford; Sir Frederic Rogers, Baronet; Thomas Dyke Acland, Esquire, D.C.L.; William Mount, Esquire; Goldwin Smith, Regius Professor of Modern History, and Fellow of University College, in the University of Oxford, Esquire; the Rev. John Wilder, Fellow of Eton College; the Rev. John Marriott, of Bradfield; the Rev. James Elwin Millard, Fellow of St. Mary Magdalen College, Oxford; Arthur Powell, Esquire; George Henry Drew, Esquire; and William Ford, Esquire; to be held by them and their successors for ever, in trust for the purposes aforesaid. Tn 1862 A ROYAT. CHARTER was obtained, by which the original intention of the Founder, and the Statutes given by him for securing its fulfilment, were ‘ ratified and confirmed.’ And by the said Charter, among other things, it was ‘ granted, constituted, and appointed as follows, that is to say: —That the School which has been hitherto carried on under the provisions of the Indenture of the ibth May, 1859, and the Statutes therein referred to, shall hereafter be carried on, and shall be called or known by the name of Saint Andrew’s College, Bradfield,’ and that ‘ the persons who at the date of this Our Charter shall fill the respective Offices of Warden and Trustees of the said School, pursuant to the provisions of the said Indenture of the i6th day of May, 1859, and the said Statutes, and such persons as shall from time to time thereafter fill the respective Offices of Warden and Trustees pursuant to the said provisions, shall be and they are hereby constituted one body politic and corporate, by the name of the Warden and Council of Saint Andrew’s College, Bradfield.’ B 2
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