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The first was William Perkin, discoverer of aniline dyes and of ‘mauve’. By the mid-century 637 boys paying £8:5s p.a. –with a waiting list of 240- were studying a three-term year in separate, gas-lit classrooms. Organized games began with rowing in 1859 and cricket in 1861.
- Terry Heard
It tells the story of John Allen Giles, City’s first head...
- Our History
CLS has a rich and proud history, dating from our inception...
- Terry Heard
CLS has a rich and proud history, dating from our inception in the 15th century through the will of John Carpenter, through to our founding on Milk Street in 1837 and our relocation to our current home in 1987.
Old boys of the City of London School are known as Old Citizens. they may join the John Carpenter Club. [56] Over 140 people listed in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography were educated at the City of London School, and that includes only those who were already deceased at the time of writing.
To overcome practical difficulties, Mortimer turned to the old boys; the John Carpenter Club had been founded in 1848. When the Taunton Commission reported in 1867, it noted how the science-based curriculum helped to integrate the wide social intake.
Dec 5, 2018 · The City of London School is an independent day school for boys, a partner of the City of London School for Girls and the City of London Freemen's School, both of which came later. All three receive funding from the City's Cash. The boys' school was founded in 1834, but it owes its existence to…
Investigating the 1936 plaque we found that Aim hold a "plan of new building at City of London School for Boys, 1936" but we can find no other reference so we don't know what or where it was.
It tells the story of John Allen Giles, City’s first head and his role in the intriguing early history of the School. You have spent most of your life at CLS – is that a surprise or did you always want to do that?
