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Merchant Taylors' Boys' School, Crosby

Merchant Taylors' Boys' School, Crosby
Merchant Taylors' Schools Crest.jpg
Merchant Taylors' Schools' Crest
Motto Latin: Concordia parvae res crescunt
("Small things grow in harmony" - Sallust)
Established 1620
Type Independent school; Day school
Head Master Mr D Cook
Founder Merchant Taylors' Company
Location 186 Liverpool Road
Great Crosby
Merseyside
L23 0QP
EnglandEngland
Local authority Sefton
DfE URN 104973 Tables
Staff ~80 (full-time)
Students 737
Gender Boys
Ages 7–18
Houses Armours, Harrisons, Stevens, Warings
Colours

Black and Gold

         
Former pupils Old Crosbeians
School Song Crescat Crosbeia
Website www.merchanttaylors.com

Coordinates: 53°29′02″N 3°01′30″W / 53.484°N 3.025°W / 53.484; -3.025

Black and Gold

Merchant Taylors' Boys' School, Crosby is a British independent school for day pupils, located in Great Crosby on Merseyside.

The school's motto is that of the Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors: Concordia Parvae Res Crescunt. (Small things grow in harmony.)

The school was founded in 1620 under the instruction of the estate of John Harrison, a citizen and Merchant Taylor of London, who was born in Great Crosby, and was run under the auspices of the Merchant Taylors' Company until 1910. In 1878, the school moved to its present site, some 1,000 yards from the previous, which now forms part of the Merchant Taylors' Girls' School, with whom the school shares a Governing Board and Bursar.The first Headmaster was the Revd John Kidde who was also at the time the ‘Minister of Crosby’ and a farmer of 3 acres (12,000 m2) to support his family of eight children. Kidde was apparently sacked from the post in 1651 on the grounds of mismanagement although it is thought he was forced out by Roman Catholic Sympathizers on account of his Puritan/Presbyterian ways.

Until the 1970s, Merchant Taylors' was also a boarding school. It currently caters for over 700 day pupils between the ages of 11 and 18 (with an additional 120 in the Junior School). Lessons run Monday-Friday, 08:40-16:00 (A Saturday working day was abolished in 1981). As a result of these longer school days, holidays are frequently several weeks longer than local education authority dates.


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