View report page

42
Ground under their Act of 1869 (see page 40), is applicable to
Scholarships in this School, for St. James's boys only.
Two additional class rooms are now being added to the School
(which is freehold and wholly unencumbered) by which the accoin
modation will be increased to 278. The master is Mr. John F.
Arnold, who has a staff of six assistant masters.
BURLINGTON SCHOOL.
This Institution was established by voluntary contributions in the
year 1699, and had for its original object the instruction of 60 poor
girls whose parents could not afford to educate them. A site for
the School was obtained in 1719 from the Earl of Burlington,
and the building was opened for the reception of scholars in 1725,
when 35 poor girls were admitted. The property of the charity
has since been increased by the gift of a house from an unknown
donor, and several pecuniary legacies, the two most important
bequests being one of £500 by Priscilla Rolls, and one of £2,000
by Peter le Quainter.
A scheme for the management of the School was established by
the Charity Commissioners on the 8th July, 1875, and under this
Scheme two of the Governors are elected by the vestry, the present
Governors so elected being Mr. Thomas Henry Elam and Mr. William
Cox. The last-mentioned gentleman was elected during the past
year to supply a vacancy caused by the death of Mr. Bradshaw.
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
Ground under their Act of 1869 (see page 40), is applicable to
Scholarships in this School. The present annual income of the
Charity derived from the endowment is £501 18s. 8d.' education
is provided for 280 girls, all of whom pay fees.
PAROCHIAL CHARITIES.
The only Charity which is administered by the Vestry is that
known as Le Quainter's. It arises from a bequest, in 1782, by
Mr. Peter Le Quainter, formerly a resident in Piccadilly, who