23 Facts About Gresham's School

Gresham's School is a public school in Holt, Norfolk, England, one of the top thirty International Baccalaureate schools in England.

Gresham's School began to admit girls in 1971 and is fully co-educational.

Gresham's School, Holt, was founded by Sir John Gresham, who obtained letters patent in 1555, during the reign of Queen Mary I For its home he gave the school his manor house at Holt, which he had bought in 1546 from his elder brother Sir William Gresham.

The founder endowed Gresham's generously, placing its property in trust with the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers of London, and full estate records dating from the school's foundation are held at the Guildhall Library.

Sir John Gresham's School endowments included his freehold property in Holt and Letheringsett, his wood and land called Prior's Grove, his manors of Pereers and Holt Hales, "with all and singular to the same belonging, situate in Holt, Sherington, Letheringsett, Bodham, Kellinge, Wayborne, Semlingham, Stodrye, Bantrye and West Wickham, in the said county of Norfolk", and tenements called 'The White Hind' and 'The Peacock' in the parish of St Giles's Without, Cripplegate, in the City of London.

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Gresham's School library contains the Foundation Library, a collection of books and manuscripts provided at the school's establishment in 1555 and later.

On Christmas Day 1650, Thomas Cooper, a former usher of Gresham's School, was hanged for his part in a Royalist rebellion on behalf of Charles II.

Gresham's School's body was left hanging on a gibbet in the Holt Market Place.

In 1859, the Gresham Grammar Gresham's School was closed while its site was substantially rebuilt and converted, providing accommodation for boarders.

When Howson arrived at Gresham's School, he found it in numbers much as it had been when founded in 1555: in 1900 there were only forty Holt Scholars, plus seven boarders.

New Gresham's School was opened by Sir Evelyn Wood on 30 September 1903.

The Gresham's School Chapel was completed in 1916, during the Great War, during which one hundred and six Old Greshamians were killed.

Eccles, Gresham's appears to have been one of the first schools in England to abolish corporal punishment.

Gresham's School's letter is not however evidence for permanent abolition at Gresham's.

Gresham's School was evacuated to Newquay in Cornwall during the Second World War, between June 1940 and March 1944.

Douglas Robb, previously head of Oswestry Gresham's School, took up the position of headmaster in September 2014.

Former Junior School of Gresham's was reorganised into a Preparatory School and a Pre-Preparatory School in 1984, both on their own sites at Holt, with their own heads and staff.

Pre-Preparatory Gresham's School is housed in the Old Gresham's School House and is a day school for approximately one hundred boys and girls between the ages of two and seven.

Gresham's School's year is divided into three terms, Michaelmas, Lent and Summer .

In rifle-shooting, Gresham's has been one of the top ten schools in England since about 1955, and Glyn Barnett won a shooting gold medal in the 2006 Commonwealth Games at Melbourne.

Gresham's School play is produced at the end of every Summer Term, and each house puts on a performance through House Entertains once a year.

Gresham's School has a long military tradition, from Sir Christopher Heydon, who took part in the capture of Cadiz in 1596, to Tom Wintringham, commander of the British Battalion of the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War, and General Sir Robert Bray, Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe.

In September 2005, Gresham's was one of fifty British schools which were considered by the Office of Fair Trading to be operating a fee-fixing cartel in breach of the Competition Act 1998.