EDUCATION.
A school master buried at Frocester
in 1757 (fn. 76) may have taught a school in the parish. In
1818 there were two day schools at Frocester both
apparently wholly dependent on fees, and the poor
were said to lack means of education. (fn. 77) In 1831 a day
and Sunday school, supported by the principal
inhabitants, was started in a building in Frog Lane
provided by the Graham-Clarke family; a salaried
master and mistress were teaching 80 children in
1833. (fn. 78) A new building was provided in 1860, (fn. 79)
and in 1874 the school was supported by voluntary contributions, apparently mainly from John
Graham-Clarke, by school pence, and by a small
legacy. (fn. 80) The school had an average attendance of
25 in 1885, (fn. 81) and 40 in 1911. In 1922, when attendance had fallen to 16, (fn. 82) the school was closed, the
children going to Leonard Stanley. (fn. 83) In 1931 the
school building housed the village institute, (fn. 84) but in
the early 1950s it was adapted as a private house. (fn. 85)
Footnotes
| 76 |
Bigland, Glos. i. 608. |
| 77 |
Educ. of Poor Digest, 300. |
| 78 |
Educ. Enquiry Abstract, 315; G.D.R. Frocester tithe
award. |
| 79 |
Kelly's Dir. Glos. (1885), 463. |
| 80 |
Ibid. (1870), 549; Ed. 7/37. |
| 81 |
Kelly's Dir. Glos. (1885), 463. |
| 82 |
Bd. of Educ. List 21, 1911 (H.M.S.O.), 162; 1922, 104. |
| 83 |
Ed. 7/37; Kelly's Dir. Glos. (1927), 182. |
| 84 |
Kelly's Dir. Glos. (1931), 173. |
| 85 |
Local information. |