Source document description
The Staff of Rossall School
Period covered: from 1844 to 1938
World location: UK & Ireland
Country location(s): England
'Region' and/or city location(s): Lancashire
Town/locale: Fleetwood
This record set contains a list of the staff at Rossall School from it's founding in 1844 up until 1938. The first section gives the names of the staff working there in 1938 starting with the headmaster followed by the masters in the order in which they joined the school. Brief biographical notes include full name, year joined school, qualifications, war service (WW1), duties at the college, place of residence outside of term time. Other staff listed have just name, position and date of joining.
The list of current staff is followed by a list of headmasters dating from the school's founding in 1844 giving similar biographical information to the section above but including date left, date of death (if relevant), subsequent career, residence in 1938 if still living. The list of headmasters is followed by a list of assistant masters, ordered by date of joining the school, with similar information to the headmaster list. Following this is a list of ancilliary staff such as nurses, matrons, gym instructors, school and musketry sergeants and masters of the preparatory school. This list contains just the names, postion and date joined the school. Finally there is a list of the "house masters" with the name of the "house", year started, surname and initials.
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Rossall School is located in the small fishing village/town of Fleetwood on the Lancashire coast, in the North West of England, 18 miles NW of Preston. It was founded in 1844 in the former Rossall Hall as an Anglican boarding school "with the object of giving to the sons of clergymen and others an education similar to that of the great public schools, but without the great cost of Eton or Harrow, and embracing also a more general course of instruction in modern literature and science." Admission was by nomination and annual payment.
The new school prospered and by the end of the 1860s had 350 boys boarding with them. During the 1920s the school enjoyed a period of great prosperity, with over 500 boys attending, but numbers fell during the 1930s due to the economic depression which was particularly severe in Lancashire. Rossall School is still in existence to day and is now an independant co-educational boarding and day school.
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