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In 1557 Sir Antony Browne, the Lord Chief Justice, acquired the land on which Brentwood School was first built. During Mary Tudor's reign, hundreds of Protestants were burned at the stake and a well-known Brentwood Protestant, William Hunter, was ordered by Sir Antony Browne to be executed.
Built 1568. Established in 1557 and formally granted in 1558 by Queen Mary I, the school was founded as The Grammar School of Antony Browne. Sir Antony Browne, the founder, obtained the license to establish the school, and the first appointed schoolmaster, George Otway, began his tenure in 1558.
The licence to found the school as The Grammar School of Antony Browne, Serjeant at the Law, in Brentwood was granted by Queen Mary I to Sir Antony (or Anthony) Browne on 5 July 1558. The first schoolmaster, George Otway, was appointed on 28 July 1558.
In 1557 Sir Antony Browne, the Lord Chief Justice, acquired the land on which Brentwood School was first built. During Mary Tudor's reign, hundreds of Protestants were burned at the stake and a well-known Brentwood Protestant, William Hunter, was ordered by Sir Antony Browne to be executed.
HISTORY: In 1557 Sir Antony Browne, the Lord Chief Justice, acquired the land on which Brentwood School was first built. During Mary Tudor's reign, hundreds of Protestants were burned at the stake and a well-known Brentwood Protestant, William Hunter, was ordered by Sir Antony Browne to be executed. This act may have led Sir Antony Browne to ...
English Heritage level 3 record of five late 19th and early 20th century structures on the southern end of Brentwood School prior to redevelopment as a new sixth form centre. The main building, Otway House, is a former vicarage built in 1877 and acquired by the school in 1927.
By far the most impressive school building built in Brentwood in the 19th century was the Shoreditch Industrial School, later purchased by the Brentwood School Boart and renamed the Hackney Industrial School.
