Inscription implies year of birth as 1863 but the BMD death record gives a year of birth of 1866. The closest candidate from BMD records is born in 1865 in Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire
Abridged from HBS Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitchin_Boys%27_School
Jabez King came to the Headmaster's job in January 1898 with just 24 pupils in the School. He was a former Oxford University student with an M.A. in Classics and English. A fearless climber, he placed the traditional chamber pot on one of the spires. He felt a change in discipline was needed so that beatings in the school were rarer, but still occurred in matters such as bullying. Occasionally the Headmaster would make several students swap a lesson of Scripture for an hour of cleaning out the chicken coops and the cow sheds down by the entrance from Bancroft. The School groundsman and cow-herd were summoned with the use of King's megaphone from his Oxford years, and often he left the School on Tuesdays to take part in the local Farmers' Market. Often the running of the School was left to Second Master Freddie Jones. School funds had balanced out again by the end of the 19th century, and in 1908 the School was able to start the Junior Preparatory School for younger boys that would now go to primary and junior schools. A small interview was conducted and if King – the interrogator – liked the boy, he was admitted. The School tuck shop began in 1910, and the following year tar paving was laid in the School Quad to stop excessive amounts of mud getting into the School.
KING, JABEZ Mothers Maiden Name : TAYLOR GRO Reference: 1865 D Quarter in ASHBYDELAZOUCH UNION Volume 07A Page 87
Abridged from HBS Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitchin_Boys%27_School
Jabez King came to the Headmaster's job in January 1898 with just 24 pupils in the School. He was a former Oxford University student with an M.A. in Classics and English. A fearless climber, he placed the traditional chamber pot on one of the spires. He felt a change in discipline was needed so that beatings in the school were rarer, but still occurred in matters such as bullying. Occasionally the Headmaster would make several students swap a lesson of Scripture for an hour of cleaning out the chicken coops and the cow sheds down by the entrance from Bancroft. The School groundsman and cow-herd were summoned with the use of King's megaphone from his Oxford years, and often he left the School on Tuesdays to take part in the local Farmers' Market. Often the running of the School was left to Second Master Freddie Jones. School funds had balanced out again by the end of the 19th century, and in 1908 the School was able to start the Junior Preparatory School for younger boys that would now go to primary and junior schools. A small interview was conducted and if King – the interrogator – liked the boy, he was admitted. The School tuck shop began in 1910, and the following year tar paving was laid in the School Quad to stop excessive amounts of mud getting into the School.
KING, JABEZ Mothers Maiden Name : TAYLOR GRO Reference: 1865 D Quarter in ASHBYDELAZOUCH UNION Volume 07A Page 87
Inscription implies year of birth as 1863 but the BMD death record gives a year of birth of 1866. The closest candidate from BMD records is born in 1865 in Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire
Abridged from HBS Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitchin_Boys%27_School
Jabez King came to the Headmaster's job in January 1898 with just 24 pupils in the School. He was a former Oxford University student with an M.A. in Classics and English. A fearless climber, he placed the traditional chamber pot on one of the spires. He felt a change in discipline was needed so that beatings in the school were rarer, but still occurred in matters such as bullying. Occasionally the Headmaster would make several students swap a lesson of Scripture for an hour of cleaning out the chicken coops and the cow sheds down by the entrance from Bancroft. The School groundsman and cow-herd were summoned with the use of King's megaphone from his Oxford years, and often he left the School on Tuesdays to take part in the local Farmers' Market. Often the running of the School was left to Second Master Freddie Jones. School funds had balanced out again by the end of the 19th century, and in 1908 the School was able to start the Junior Preparatory School for younger boys that would now go to primary and junior schools. A small interview was conducted and if King – the interrogator – liked the boy, he was admitted. The School tuck shop began in 1910, and the following year tar paving was laid in the School Quad to stop excessive amounts of mud getting into the School.
KING, JABEZ Mothers Maiden Name : TAYLOR GRO Reference: 1865 D Quarter in ASHBYDELAZOUCH UNION Volume 07A Page 87
Abridged from HBS Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitchin_Boys%27_School
Jabez King came to the Headmaster's job in January 1898 with just 24 pupils in the School. He was a former Oxford University student with an M.A. in Classics and English. A fearless climber, he placed the traditional chamber pot on one of the spires. He felt a change in discipline was needed so that beatings in the school were rarer, but still occurred in matters such as bullying. Occasionally the Headmaster would make several students swap a lesson of Scripture for an hour of cleaning out the chicken coops and the cow sheds down by the entrance from Bancroft. The School groundsman and cow-herd were summoned with the use of King's megaphone from his Oxford years, and often he left the School on Tuesdays to take part in the local Farmers' Market. Often the running of the School was left to Second Master Freddie Jones. School funds had balanced out again by the end of the 19th century, and in 1908 the School was able to start the Junior Preparatory School for younger boys that would now go to primary and junior schools. A small interview was conducted and if King – the interrogator – liked the boy, he was admitted. The School tuck shop began in 1910, and the following year tar paving was laid in the School Quad to stop excessive amounts of mud getting into the School.
KING, JABEZ Mothers Maiden Name : TAYLOR GRO Reference: 1865 D Quarter in ASHBYDELAZOUCH UNION Volume 07A Page 87
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