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William Spicer Wood Uppingham School
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Headmasters

  • HEA
  • Subfonds
  • 1818 - 2023

Stretching back to the headmastership of Dr. Doncaster, this collection comprehensively covers the correspondence, publications, photographs and other ephemera of the headmasters of Oakham School up to the present day. For many of the headmasters, correspondence and rolls calls are a significant theme in their series.

This collection also contains an excellent record of speeches and sermons given by G. Talbot Griffiths and John Buchanan.

The final series on reports covers the headmaster's, deputy headmaster's and registers writings on the state of the school, including topics such as building and estate development, admissions, the curriculum, examination results, and Old Oakhamians.

Oakham School

Correspondence

  • HEA-HEA/2-HEA/2/1
  • File
  • 1847 - 1856
  • Part of Headmasters

This file focusses on letters sent or received by William Spicer Wood, Headmaster, in the mid-19th century.

Mr Hopkinson

Rev William Spicer Wood

This series focusses on the headmastership of Rev William Spicer Wood (1846-1875) and contains items created by the headmaster himself as well as items relating to the life at School in the mid-19th century.

Oakham School

A letter to Oakham and Uppingham Governors from the Headmasters

  • HEA-HEA/2-HEA/2/1-HEA/2/1/2
  • Item
  • 25/02/1856
  • Part of Headmasters

A modern transcript of a letter from William Spicer Wood, Headmaster of Oakham School, and Edward Thring, Headmaster of Uppingham School, addressed to the Governors of both schools regarding the relation between schools and their future as separate institutions.

William Spicer Wood

Reports & Publications

  • HEA-HEA/2-HEA/2/2
  • File
  • 1864 - 1865
  • Part of Headmasters

This file focusses on official reports published on the life at Oakham School in the 1860s.

Schools Inquiry Commission

Oakham and Uppingham Free Grammar Schools

  • HEA-HEA/2-HEA/2/2-HEA/2/2/1
  • Item
  • c.1865
  • Part of Headmasters

A photocopy of a report from a Government Commission, chapter on the County of Rutland, pages 123-131, regarding the education at Oakham and Uppingham Schools in the 1860s. Includes information on the daily life, buildings, punishment, lessons, prizes, sports, entry into universities, staff, curriculum, and admissions. Nine pages A to I

Schools Inquiry Commission