The Perse School for Boys

THE PERSE GRAMMAR SCHOOL. Happily the town is not without its good Free Grammar School, which gave the name Freeschool Lane to the lane running along the eastern side of Corpus College, from Benet Street to Pembroke Street, where it was formerly located. It was founded by Stephen Perse, M.D., Senior Fellow of Caius College, who by his will, in 1615, bequeathed property for the purpose of erecting and establishing a house capable of containing one hundred scholars, to be used for a Free Grammar School. The house and ground were sold to the University, and a new site was purchased on the Hills Road, near Hyde Park corner, where handsome School-Buildings were erected from designs by Fawcett. The education is of a novel and advanced type and the school is in many ways a pioneer in educational matters. The Board of Education makes a special grant to enable the headmaster to prosecute his methods of teaching. Many students pass every year directly from the School to the University. The number of boys is about 200, of whom some are boarders in the head-master's house and some at Mr. Hirsch's Jewish House. Bishop Jeremy Taylor, who was a native of Cambridge, received his education at this school before he went to Caius College.