CLIFTON AND BRISTOL COLLEGES.
[TO TIM EDITOR OF TIM 'SPECTATOR."]
SIR,—In the Spectator of Saturday last, in speaking of the effect of the Middle-Class Schools Commission, more especially as re- gards the "old endowed schools," you compare the "renovated and transfigured Taunton Grammar School" with "Bristol Col- lege under Mr. Percival."
The school of which Mr. Percival is head master is known not as Bristol, but as Clifton College. There are, in fact, in this locality two schools of the highest grade : the one Clifton "Col- lege," a private proprietary school, of which Mr. Percival is the head master ; the other, " Bristol " Grammar School, an old, en- dowed public school, under the management of the Trustees of the Bristol Municipal Charities, of which the Rev. J. W. Caldi- cott is the head master. The Bristol Grammar School has at this time upwards of 240 boys in attendance ; its pupils have gained in competitive examinations in the last two years a fellowship, and twelve scholarships, or exhibitions (one of them for physical science) at Oxford, Cambridge, or London Universities ; five first and two second classes in University examinations, the first and the fourth places in honours at the matriculation examinations of London University, and nine first and five second classes in the Oxford Local Examinations. The mistake made in your para- graph being likely to do mischief to the Grammar School, the Trustees of the school desire me to appeal to your courtesy to insert this explanation.—I am, Sir, &c., JAMES H. LONDON, Secretary to the Trustees.
14 Queen Square, October 19, 1870.
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