Catalogue description Polehampton Charity
This record is held by Royal Berkshire Archives
Reference: | D/QX 30/16 |
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Title: | Polehampton Charity |
Date: | 1921 - 1928 |
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[For a copy of Edward Polehampton's will, 1721, see D/QX 30/1/17.] |
Held by: | Royal Berkshire Archives, not available at The National Archives |
Language: | English |
Administrative / biographical background: |
[The charity founded by will of Edward Polehampton, 1722, provided a school and chapel at Twyford, education and clothing for 10 poor boys of Twyford aged 8-15, and the salary of a clergyman to serve the chapel and teach at the school. It was endowed with property in London and at Hampton, Middlesex. Uses of the charity's income were declared by the Master of Rolls in 1730 after an inquisition under the Commission of Charitable Uses; and were ordered to be executed in 1771. The residual heirs of the estate reverted to the Crown in 1847. The ecclesiastical portion of the charity was in abeyance after the building of Twyford Church, in 1847. A Scheme for management was made in 1878. The Polehampton Estates Act (1885) enabled all the charities founded by Edward Polehampton to draw on his whole estate, and in 1886 a new Scheme changed the school into a public elementary school for boys from Twyford and Ruscombe, with preference given to those from Twyford; empowered the trustees to start similar schools for girls and infants; and allowed the residue of the charity's income to be used for higher, technical, professional or industrial education at other schools for Twyford children aged over 12, outfits or tools for children entering employment or service, medicine, medical attendance and travel to and maintenance at convalescent homes, hospitals, infirmaries and the seaside for the sick and infirm poor of Twyford, and as subscriptions toward a public reading room. The Girls' School was opened in 1889, and the Boys' School improved. The Scheme was altered in 1890 and 1893 to improve the salaries offered to teachers. The schools passed largely under the control of Berkshire County Council in 1903. In 1904 a Charity Commission Order renamed the educational part of the endowment as The Polehampton Educational Foundation.] |
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