Manchester Grammar School

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Name (Latin)
Manchester Grammar School
Other forms of name
MGS (Manchester Grammar School)
Manchester Free Grammar School
Manchester School (Manchester, England)
Coordinates
-2.210278 -2.210278 53.448611 53.448611 (gooearth )
Associated country
Great Britain
Field of activity
Education
Associated Language
eng
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 132578499
Wikidata: Q6747415
Library of congress: n 84198926
HAI10: 000448286
Sources of Information
  • British Library general catalogue of printed books to 1975, 1979-1987(name headings Manchester School and Manchester Free Grammar School: see under Manchester Grammar School)
  • Its The new microcosm, June 1839:p.1 caption heading (The Manchester Free Grammar School) ; August 1839: p.1 caption heading (The Manchester Grammar School)
  • Its website, viewed 6 June 2017:home p. (The Manchester Grammar School; MGS) history p. (founded as a free grammar school in 1515; the School at Long Millgate was completed by 28 August 1518; new charter in 1525 'for a Free School ... to be called Manchester School'; by 1849 merged with the commercial school; known as the Manchester Free Grammar School; photograph of front entrance of the school at Long Millgate: 'Manchester Grammar School') contact p. (The Manchester Grammar School, Old Hall Lane, Manchester, M13 0XT)
  • The Manchester Grammar School 1515-1965, 1965:p.32 (Manchester School at Long Millgate, Manchester, 1821) p.34 (agreed in 1833 to extend the subjects taught in the school beyond Latin and Greek; new school room opened in January 1837 so that English, Arithmetic, Mathematics, French and eventually Science could be taught; also a commercial type of education; the whole connected establishment to be called the Manchester Free Grammar School)
  • The Manchester Iris : a weekly literary and scientific miscellany, 11 Oct. 1823:p.325 [p.1] (Manchester Free Grammar School)
  • The new microcosm [bound volumes], June 1839 to June 1840, 1840:covering t.p. (Manchester School)
  • Wikipedia, viewed 7 June 2017(Manchester Grammar School; MGS; largest independent day school for boys in the United Kingdom (ages 7-18); located in Manchester, England; established on 2 July 1515 by an endowment trust deed; construction of the school took place between April 1517 and August 1518; in 1930 the school moved out of the city centre to Old Hall Lane in Fallowfield)
  • Orff, C. Carmina burana [SR] 1984?, p1983:label (Manchester Grammar School)