I am delighted to announce that I have established a small steering committee to coordinate a number of events and projects to celebrate the School’s 300th anniversary. At a later date, sub-committees will be established to arrange specific events and projects under the banner RHS300 and we are hoping to mobilise all the talent and experience available to us.
I welcome the involvement of everybody connected with the School and I have asked Rob Mann (Geography Teacher) to assist with the development of ideas. So please do contact Rob with any thoughts, comments or contributions at rjm@royalhospitalschool.org or 01473 326 217.
Once we have had the opportunity to review your valued input, I hope to announce the programme formally early in the New Year.
The earliest known history of the school was written by John Livingston Jay (Secretary to the Royal Hospital, Greenwich) sometime prior to 1850, but it appears to have been misplaced, and can no longer be accessed. In 1859 C. Dilkes Loveless (Jay's successor) wrote a history of the school that was undoubtedly based upon Jay's writings, and this appears in a confidential report to the "Committee appointed by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to inquire into the state of Greenwich Hospital Schools". dated 25 March 1859. It states that "... school, which was formerly called the "Charity School of the Royal Hospital at Greenwich", was first established in 1712, the number of boys then being 10." Thomas Weston, with the support of GH built a school on GH land, and 12 GH boys began to attend there in 1715. [Weston had been a pupil of Flamsteed at the Royal Mathematical School, and became Flamsteed's assistant when Flamsteed became Astonomer Royal.]
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