Merchant Taylors' School
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| Motto |
Latin: Concordia parvae res crescunt Small things grow in harmony |
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| Established | 1561 |
| Type | Independent private day school |
| Head Master | Mr S J Everson |
| Chaplain | The Revd D M Bond |
| Chairman of Governors | Mr C P Hare |
| Founder | Sir Thomas White |
| Location |
Sandy Lodge Three Rivers Hertfordshire England |
| DfE URN | 117616 Tables |
| Staff | ~80 (full-time) |
| Students | 872 |
| Gender | Boys |
| Ages | 3–18 |
| Houses | 8 |
| Colours |
Black, Gold and Magenta |
| Publication | The Taylorian |
| Former pupils | Old Merchant Taylors |
| Affiliated school | Merchant Taylors' Prep |
| School Song | Latin: Homo Plantat, Homo Irrigat sed Deus dat Incrementum |
| Affiliation | Merchant Taylors Company |
| Website | www |
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| Location | Northwood, England | ||
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| Benham End Lake End |
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| As of 2 June 2016 Source: CricketArchive |
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Black, Gold and Magenta
Merchant Taylors' School (MTS) is a British independent private day school for boys, originally located in the City of London. Since 1933 it has been located on 285 acres (115 ha) of grounds at Sandy Lodge in the Three Rivers district of Hertfordshire.
Founded in 1561 by Sir Thomas White, Sir Richard Hilles, Emanuel Lucar and Stephen Hales, it was one of the nine English public schools investigated by the Clarendon Commission set up in 1861, but successfully argued that it should be omitted from the Public Schools Act 1868, as did St Paul's School, London, the other day school investigated by the Clarendon Commission.
Today the school caters for 872 students between the ages of 3 and 18. The school is now an all-through school from age 3 to 18 after merger with Northwood Prep School, Northwood in September 2015.
The school was founded in 1551 by Thomas White of the Merchant Taylors' Company. It was originally located in a manor house called the Manor of the Rose, in the parish of St. Lawrence Pountney in the City of London, where it remained until 1875.
Merchant Taylors' was not the first school to be founded by members of the Merchant Taylors' Company, for the Tudor period in England was a period of expansion for education. Sir John Percival (Master of the Company in 1485, Lord Mayor of London in 1498) established a grammar school at Macclesfield in 1502, while in 1508 his widow founded one at St. Mary's Wike in Cornwall (which moved to Launceston shortly thereafter). Also in 1508, Sir Steven Jenyns (Master in 1490, Lord Mayor in 1508) founded Wolverhampton Grammar School, which still maintains strong links with the Company.
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