Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: The Endowed Schools Act
- 1 The shaping of Section 12
- 2 The men who rejected the dead hand
- 3 The money problem
- 4 Opponents
- 5 Supporters
- 6 What was achieved
- 7 The changeover of 1874
- 8 The long haul
- 9 The Charity Commission spirit
- 10 The women's movement in the later years
- Appendices
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: The Endowed Schools Act
- 1 The shaping of Section 12
- 2 The men who rejected the dead hand
- 3 The money problem
- 4 Opponents
- 5 Supporters
- 6 What was achieved
- 7 The changeover of 1874
- 8 The long haul
- 9 The Charity Commission spirit
- 10 The women's movement in the later years
- Appendices
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
We know nothing very definite at present respecting future arrangements and policy. But I am not without hope that the work of reorganisation and improvement will go on without substantial alteration.
J. G. Fitch, 5 August 1874It was well known t h a t … the traditions of the one body, short-lived though it had been, and the traditions of the new authority were so different that the whole mode of administering the reformed endowments would in all probability be changed.
Journal of the Women's Education Union, 15 April 1876It seems unlikely that in 1874 anyone had more cause to speculate as to the future working of the Act than those Taunton men, the Assistant Commissioners, who were now to have new masters, and the women's interest which owed so much to the warm commitment of the old ones. Would there be a drastic change or not? The extent of one change was barely foreseen, and that was the total difference in time-scale between the work of the two Commissions. When the Endowed Schools Commissioners were censured for having made so little headway with their task Lyttelton had warned that it was unrealistic to expect it to be finished in another five years, especially as in future only two Commissioners were to be engaged on the work full time. In the end it took nearly thirty; or to be precise, the Charity Commissioners carried it on until 1903, the ‘temporary’ nature of their powers marked quaintly by the need for annual renewal under the Expiring Laws Continuance Act.
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- Feminists and BureaucratsA Study in the Development of Girls' Education in the Nineteenth Century, pp. 133 - 150Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1980