Monmouth School
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The main buildings, seen from across the A40
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| Motto | Serve and Obey |
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| Established | 1614 |
| Type |
Public school Independent day and boarding |
| Religion | Protestant |
| Headmaster | Dr A Daniel |
| Founder | William Jones |
| Location |
Monmouth NP25 3XP Wales Coordinates: 51°48′42″N 2°42′40″W / 51.8117°N 2.7110°W |
| DfE URN | 402007 Tables |
| Students | 600 (approx.) |
| Gender | Boys |
| Colours |
Gold and Chocolate |
| Former pupils | Old Monmothians |
| Website | www |
Gold and Chocolate
Monmouth School is an HMC boys' boarding and day school in Monmouth, Monmouthshire in south east Wales. It was founded in 1614 by William Jones. It is run as a trust, the William Jones's Schools Foundation, by the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers, one of the Livery Companies. The Foundation's returned accounts for 2015 show an income of £22,411,000, against an expenditure of £22,433,000.
Monmouth School is the older of the Haberdashers' Monmouth Schools, and collaborates with its sister school, Haberdashers' Monmouth School for Girls, for certain activities such as drama productions and Sixth Form courses. They also share a coeducational pre-prep, Agincourt School.
In 1613, William Jones, a prominent merchant and haberdasher, gave the Haberdashers’ Company £6,000, followed by a further £3,000 bequeathed in his will on his death in 1615, to "ordaine a preacher, a Free-School and Almes-houses for twenty poor and old distressed people, as blind and lame, as it shall seem best to them, of the Towne of Monmouth, where it shall be bestowed". Jones was born at Newland, Gloucestershire and brought up in Monmouth, leaving to make a sizeable fortune as a London merchant engaged in the cloth trade with the continent. Jones' motivations for his bequest appear partly philanthropic and partly evangelical; "the priority given to the preacher illustrates his concern to convert an area in the Marches which was still, when the school opened in 1614, strongly recusant."
The Haberdashers purchased four fields as the site for the school before Jones's death and by 1615, the almshouses, and the schoolroom and headmaster's house had been completed. Nothing remains of the original school buildings. In 1865, and on the same site, the school was substantially rebuilt (see below). By 1872, and under the headmastership of the Rev. Charles Manley Roberts, Monmouth had become a member of the prestigious Headmaster's Conference (created by Edward Thring of Uppingham in 1869), a mark of its increasing reputation and status as a public school. As a result of rising revenues from investments - Monmouth's endowment was one of wealthiest of any school by the mid-19th century - the original foundation was re-organised in 1891 to support a new girls’ school and an elementary school in the town, as well as a boys grammar school (West Monmouth School) in Pontypool. The elementary school was transferred to County Council control in 1940 with West Monmouth School at Pontypool following in 1955. This left the William Jones’s Schools Foundation responsible for Monmouth School and Haberdashers' Monmouth School for Girls - also known as HMSG - both of which joined the Direct Grant scheme in 1946. In 1976, and with the ending of Assisted Places, the school returned to full independence.
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