Rev WH Laverty's 'School Book'

Soon after he became rector in 1872, Mr Laverty appears to have started recording in a black-covered notebook details (right) relating to the Holme School. See a facsimile of the contents.

See also Joyce Stevens' chapter on the early days of the school [from 'Headley 1066-1966']


The first page, headed 'Parish Matters'

Wallis Hay Laverty, Headley Rectory, Hants
26/8/1872

on the repair of school buildings: see p.11, No.3 & opp. p.46

The index on the inside cover is as follows:–

Complete list of Trustees in The History of Headley 1755-1760

Rectors as Trustees — opp. p.1
Document 1: Foundation Deed (1755) — p.1
Document 2: School Grant of Land (1755) — p.14
Document 3: Power of Attorney (1755) — p.15
Document 4: School Grant of Land (1755) — p.16
Document 5: School Grant of Land (1755) — p.17
Documents 6 & 7: Lease to Henry Moult (two copies) (1759) — p.18
Document 8: Lease of Surrey Property to Trustees (1767) — p.22
Document 9: Licence (suppl. to Doc 8) to sublet (1767) — p.26
Documents 10 & 11: Lease to Archibald Hamilton (two copies) (1772) — p.27
Documents 12 & 13: Lease of Surrey Property to Trustees (two parts) (1774) — p.30
Document 14: Licence to sublet (1774) — p.33
Document 15: Names of Trustees (1776) — p.34
Document 16: Licence to sublet (1788) — p.35
Document 17: Trustees (1789) — p.36
Document 18: (1st part) Trustees (1810) — p.37
Document 18: (2nd part) Memoranda of Measurements (1810) Craft's Land — p.38
Document 19: Lease to Joseph Parnell (1810) — p.39
Document 20: Dr Smith's letter with report to Trustees (1810) — p.40
Document 21: School Income & Expenditure (1866-1872) — p.41
Clothing & Shoe Club (1871, 1872) — p.43
School Expenditure in Mr Dyke's time for 1872-1873 — p.44
Document 22: New Scheme for regulating Charity (1859) —p.45
(added in red ink)and interpretation by Board of Education in 1915 — opp. p.46
… (appendix) Referring to Building Grant to School (1872) — p.48
Income & Expenditure for year 31 March 1872 to 31 March 1873 — p.49 [continued on p.57]
Appointment of Education Council —p.50
Appointment of Chairman, Treasurer & Secretary, and salary of schoolmaster, & rate, etc. — p.51
Correspondence with Education Dept with ref. to avoiding too many certified masters — p.52 [to p.56]

At the foot of the page:
Note that Documents 1–20 & 22 are kept in the iron Parish Chest, in brown paper, bound round with a strap.
Document 21 is a book, thickish small octavo.
Note that April 1916, Documents 1 to 20 & 22 were sorted & replaced in Study, S. Cupboard with Holme Trust boxes.

Pages 57-82 are not in the index, but their contents are broadly as follows:–

p.57 — continuation of 'Income & Expenditure for year 31 March 1872 to 31 March 1873' on p.49
p.58 — Estimate Income & Expenditure for 31/3/1873 to 31/3/1874
p.59 — Minutes of meeting of 'The Council for the Management of the Education of the Poor Children of the Parish' held on 23 June 1873: Mr I'Anson chairman, Mr Laverty secretary [not the first, as 'minutes of previous meeting were read']
p.60 — Letter to Sir Henry Keating (of Headley Park) asking him to join the Council [he refused]
p.61 — Income & Expenditure for 31/3/1873 to 31/3/1874 (continues on p.70)
p.62 — Prizes given to children in 1873, and their cost
p.63 — Correspondence with Mr Fillimore (the schoolmater) about his salary 1873-1874
p.64 — 'Further Correspondence' relating to the Infant School ('vide p.71')
p.65 — Minutes of Council meeting 23 Jan 1874
p.66 — List of 40 parishes of a similar rateable value to Headley (relating to what they spent on education)
p.67 — Minutes of Council meeting 14 Feb 1874
p.68 — Minutes of Meeting of Committee on Fees [for children to attend the school] later modified on p.69
p.69 — Minutes of Council meeting 9 Mar 1874, agreeing the fees
p.70 — Income & Expenditure for 31/3/1873 to 31/3/1874 (continued from p.61)
p.71 — 'Further Correspondence' relating to the Infant School (from p.64) including diagram on room sizes
p.72 — Details of references for employment of an Infants' Mistress, advertised in the Schoolmaster on 25 Apr 1874
p.73 — Income & Expenditure for 31/3/1874 to 31/3/1875
p.74 — Minutes of Council meeting 25 May 1874 (Whit Monday), including a proposat to take care of children under 3 years old so that their sisters might attend school.
p.75 — Minutes of Council meeting 27 July 1874 (abandoned as not quorate)
p.76 — Minutes of Council meeting 12 Oct 1874
p.77 (opp) — Letter to Sir Henry Keating asking for legal advice as to ownership of current Infants School
p.77 — Minutes of Council meeting 26 Apr 1875
p.78 (opp) — Minutes of Council meeting 31 May 1875
p.78 — Minutes of Council meeting 25 Mar 1876
p.79 (opp) — Minutes of Council meeting 5 Jun 1876
p.79 — Minutes of Council meeting 20 Nov 1876
p.80 (opp) — Minutes of Council meeting 30 Apr 1877
p.80 — Minutes of Council meeting 4 Feb 1878
p.81 (opp) — Minutes of Council meeting 6 Apr 1878
p.81 — Minutes of Council meeting 28 Apr 1879
p.82 (opp) — Minutes of Council meeting 2 Aug 1880
p.82 — Minutes of Council meeting 25 Mar 1881

p.82 is written on the inside of the back cover. There is no indication if a subsequent book was started.


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