moral and religious instruction of the scholars, with power to use the school for a Sunday School under his exclusive control and management."
The first committee of management was to consist of "the principal officiating Minister and his curate, if he appointed him," the two churchwardens, being communicants of the said Church, "and six other persons, of whom the following shall be the first appointed—the said John Spencer Stanhope, Walter T. W. S. Stanhope, John Roddam Stanhope of Hill-House, the Rev. Charles Hudson of Trowell Rectory in the County of Nottingham, Clerk, [Trustee of the Bosvile estate] Joshua Kaye of Dean Hill in Cawthorne, farmer, and Thomas William Stones of Barnby Green, such other persons continuing to be contributors in every year to the amount of twenty shillings each at the least to the Funds of the said School and to be communicants of the Church of England, and either to have a beneficial interest to the extent of a life estate at the least in real property situated in the Parish or to be resident therein."
The Deed of Conveyance is dated June 1st, 1872, and is signed by John Spencer Stanhope, Charles Spencer Stanhope, Incumbent of Cawthorne, Walter T. W. Spencer Stanhope, Churchwarden, George Swift, Churchwarden. It was enrolled in H. M. High Court of Chancery July 19th, 1872.
The Grant of 187 17s. 9d., received from the Education Department, was with the reserved power of at any time returning the Grant so given, and making the School and school premises entirely independent of any Government interference or right of control of any kind whatever, if legislation or any other cause seemed to the Trustees to make such a course desirable.
The School was first used on Feb. 12, 1872, being opened with a short Service of Prayers and Hymns.
The Girls' School is the private property of Mr. Stanhope, having been built by Mr. and Lady Elizabeth Stanhope, and entirely supported by members of that family, until it was put under Government Inspection, and in union with the National Society, after the Education Act of 1870. It took the place of a former school of which
