DULWICH

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DULWICH , a

district

DISTRICT

in the metropolitan borough of Camber-well, London, England. The manor, which had belonged to the
DULWICH
Cluniac monks of

Bermondsey

BERMONDSEY

, passed through various hands to Edward Alleyn (q.v.) in 1606. His foundation of the College of God's

Gift

GIFT (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. die Gift, gift, das Gift, poison, formed from the Teut. stem gab-, to give, cf. Dutch geven, Ger. geben; in O. Eng. the word appears with initial y, the guttural of later English is due to Scandinavian influence)

, commonly called Dulwich College, was opened with

great

GREAT

state on the 13th of September 1619, in the presence of Lord Chancellor Bacon, Lord Arundell, Inigo Jones and other distinguished men. According to the letters patent the alms-people and scholars were to be chosen in equal proportions from the parishes of St Giles (Camberwell), St Botolph without Bishopsgate, and St Saviour's (Southwark), and " that part of the parish of St Giles without Cripplegate which is in the county of

Middlesex

MIDDLESEX
MIDDLESEX, LIONEL CRANFIELD, 1ST
EARL
- EARL
OF (1575-1645)

." By a

series

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

of statutes signed in 1626, a few days before his death, Alleyn ordained that his school should be for the instruction of 8o boys consisting of three distinct classes:(I) the twelve poor scholars; (2) children of inhabitants of Dulwich, who were to be taught freely; and (3) " towne or foreign schollers," who were " to pay such allowance as the master and wardens shall appoint." The almspeople consisted of six " poor brethren " and six " poor sisters," and the teaching and governing staff of a master and a warden, who were always to be of the founder's surname, and four fellows, all " graduates and divines," among whom were apportioned the ministerial

work

WORK

of the chapel, the instruction of the boys, and the supervision of the almspeople. That it was the founder's intention to establish a

great

GREAT

public school upon the model of Westminster and St Paul's, with provision for university training, is shown by the statutes; but for more than two centuries the educational benefits of God's

Gift

GIFT (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. die Gift, gift, das Gift, poison, formed from the Teut. stem gab-, to give, cf. Dutch geven, Ger. geben; in O. Eng. the word appears with initial y, the guttural of later English is due to Scandinavian influence)

College were restricted to the twelve poor scholars. Successive actions at law resulted in the ruling that it was not within the competence of the founder to divert any portion of the revenues of his foundation to the use of others than the members thereof, as specified in the letters patent. In 1842, however, some effort was made towards the realization of Alleyn's schemes, and in 1858 the foundation was entirely reconstituted by act of parliament. It comprises two schools, the " Upper" and the " Lower," now called respectively Dulwich College and Alleyn's school. In the Upper school, now one of the important English ";public schools," there are classical, modern, science and engineering sides. The Lower school is devoted to middle-class education. The buildings of the Upper school, by Charles Barry, contain a fine

hall

. The college possesses a splendid picture gallery, bequeathed by Sir P. F. Bourgeois, R.A., in 1811, with a separate endowment. The pictures include some exquisite Murillos and choice specimens of the Dutch school. The surplus income of the gallery fund is devoted to instruction in drawing and design in the two schools.
See W. H. Blanch, Dulwich College and Edward Alleyn (London, 1877) ; R. Hovenden, The History of Dulwich College, with a short biography of its founder (London, 1873).

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