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Credit: A memoir of John Deakin Heaton, M. D., of Leeds. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![he liandcd over to liis nephew, John Heaton, jun., who had been liis a])])rcntice and shopman, and whom tliron^hout liis lift; lie treated Avith much generosity. The house to which he and his family- removed from the old residence in Briggate was in Park Square, and here Mr. Heaton remained until his death. In 1830 the subject of our memoir first became connected with a famous Leeds institution with which in later Hfe he was to be very closely identified. This was the Grammar School. Mr. Walker, who had been head-master of the school for several years, liad died just before young Heaton entered it, and Dr. Holmes had been appointed as his successor. He had not yet, however, entered upon his duties, and the school Avas temporarily under the charge of Mi\ WoUaston, the second master. The following account by Dr. Heaton of the course of education at the time of his admission to the school, more than half a century ago, will be of interest to all educationists. ' I was a very quiet, timid boy, and went with a heavy heart amongst all the rough strange boys at this new school. When I first made my appearance, having never learned the Eton Latin Grammar, with its Propria qua3 Maribus and As in Pr^esenti, I was put into the first or second form under Spencer, with little vulgar boys with whom I had no sentiments in common. In a few davs it was found, however, that](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21209741_0073.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
