Catalogue description ROYAL NAVAL SCHOOL AND SCHOLARSHIP FUND

This record is held by Lewisham Local History and Archives Centre

Details of A99/16
Reference: A99/16
Title: ROYAL NAVAL SCHOOL AND SCHOLARSHIP FUND
Description:

The collection contains the following sections: subscribers and council, Financial, Pupil, News cuttings, Publicity, Scholarship, Fund literature, Buildings and Various.
Date: 1831-1967
Held by: Lewisham Local History and Archives Centre, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Royal Naval College, Greenwich
Physical description: 90 Files
Immediate source of acquisition:

The following were received from Commander Thompson, Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich.

 

Date of accession: 28 October 1999
Administrative / biographical background:

The Royal Naval School was a charitable institution founded in 1831 to provide an education for the sons of naval and military officers in needy circumstances, with a preference for orphans of those killed on active service. The school opened in temporary premises in Camberwell in 1833 and moved to its purpose-built premises in New Cross in 1844. It moved to a new site in Eltham in 1889, and closed in 1910. The charity was converted to a scholarship fund, which was wound up in 1966. The records were sent to the Royal Naval College.

 

The New Cross building was bought by the Goldsmiths Company for its Technical Institute (now Goldsmiths College). The Eltham premises were sold to the School for the Sons of Missionaries, now Eltham College.
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