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Mr. Joseph Haynes. Mr. A. T. Spryng was elected in the place
of Mr. Griffiths, Mr. William Cox in the place of Mr. Bradshaw,
and Mr. John Thomas Wiraperis in the place of Mr. Haynes.
A Bill is now before Parliament by which the London and Northwestern
Railway Company seek power to purchase a portion of
the burial ground.
ARCHBISHOP TENISON'S UNITED SCHOOLS,
For the Parishes of St. Martin-in-the-Fields and St. James, owe
their origin, so far as the latter Parish is concerned, to the gift, in
1700, by Dr. Tenison, the first Rector of St. James's, and also
Rector of St. Martin's at the time of the constitution of St. James's
Parish, and afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury, of certain property
upon trust, among other objects, to provide one schoolmaster
or more to teach poor boys, natives and inhabitants of this Parish.
The schools appear to have originally belonged exclusively to
St. Martin's, and formerly occupied a site now absorbed in the
National Gallery, and were removed to their present building in
Leicester Square on the Government acquiring the former property
in the year 18G7 for enlarging the Gallery. Shortly afterwards
the Charity Commissioners established a scheme by which the
Schools and the endowment for a schoolmaster were merged into a
middle-class School and placed under the management of a mixed
body of Trustees, three of whom are elected by the Vestry of this
Parish : Mr. Frederick Crane, Mr. Thomas H. W. Anderson, and
Mr. Henry Graves, being the present Governors so elected. In
addition to these elected representatives, the Rector of St. James's
is a Trustee ex-oj/icio, and two other Trustees resident in the
Parish are elected by the Board. These two co-optative Trustees
are, at present, the Rev. H. A. Sherringham, Vicar of St. Peter's,
and Mr. Hopkinson, of Regent Street. The present annual income
of the charity derived from the endowment is £260, and 228 boys
are educated. There are no Foundation scholars, but free scholarships
are granted by the Board on the display of individual merit.
The interest on the sum of £500, part of the purchase money of
the land sold by the Trustees of St. James's Chapel and Burial