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‘Briefly, and in Confidence’: Private Views of Her Majesty’s Inspectors on English Catholic Elementary Schools, 1875
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 September 2015
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The advent of State intervention in education in the early Victorian period and the creation in 1839 of the Committee of Council on Education, a Select Committee of the Privy Council, brought with it new duties and responsibilities. One of the first tasks confronting the Committee of Council was to determine the manner in which the new grants of money to schools should be distributed. In June 1839 the Committee issued a Minute announcing that all future building grants to schools would involve the right of inspection:
The right of inspection will be required by the Committee in all cases; inspectors, authorised by Her Majesty in Council, will be appointed from time to time to visit schools to be henceforth aided by public money: the inspectors will not interfere with the religious instruction, or discipline, or management of the school, it being their object to collect facts and information, and to report the result of their inspections to the Committee of Council.
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1 Minutes of the Committee of Council on Education, 24 September 1839.
2 PRO ED 9/17. The file has been analysed in McClelland, V. A., ‘The Protestant Alliance and Roman Catholic Schools, 1872–74’, Victorian Studies 8(2), December 1964, 173–182.Google Scholar
3 PRO,ED 9/14.
4 The Elementary Education Act, 1870, 33 & 34 Vict, c.75, s.7 (2).
5 PRO ED 9/17, Reverend W. H. Rule to W. E. Forster, 16 December 1872.
6 Loc. cit., Rule to the Secretary (Sir Francis R. Sandford), Education Department, 23 January 1873.
7 Loc. cit., Archbishop Henry Manning to Sir Francis Sandford, 1 August 1873.
8 AAW, Manning to Lord Howard of Glossop, Chairman of the Catholic Poor School Committee, 17 April 1874. The text of the letter was read and approved by the hierarchy at their Low Week meeting on 17 April 1874 and is printed in the 1874 Actaof that meeting under that date, pp. 9–11.
9 PRO ED 9/17, Memorial of ‘persons interested in the Management and Support of Elementary Schools under the Elementary Education Act, 1870’, to the Duke of Richmond and Gordon, Lord President of the Council, 29 April 1876.
10 PRO ED 9/14, Matthew Arnold to Sir Francis Sandford, 29 April 1875. All main references hereafter are to letters in PRO ED 9/14.
11 Reverend W. J. Kennedy to Sandford, 28 April 1875.
12 Matthew Arnold to Sandford, 29 April 1875. The concern of the hierarchy at the poor results from the Hammersmith Training College for men is reflected in the Acta of the bishops’ Low Week meeting of 1874 (AAW). Hammersmith is the subject of comment both in Minute IX, 3c, p. 4 and in the draft letter of Manning to Lord Howard of Glossop, Chairman of the Catholic Poor School Committee, dated 17 April 1875, included in Minute XXI, pp. 9–11.
13 E. H. Brodie to Sandford, 1 May 1875.
14 A. G. Legard to Sandford, 4 May 1875.
15 C. H. Alderson to Sandford, 28 April 1875.
16 Reverend H. Hughes to Sandford, 3 May 1875.
17 See footnote 11.
18 Reverend H. Sandford to Sir Francis Sandford, 6 May 1875.
19 See footnote 15.
20 See footnote 13.
21 See footnote 14.
22 See footnote 15.
23 J. D. Morell to Sandford, 6 May 1875.
24 J. G. C. Fussell to Sandford, 29 April 1875.
25 See footnote 16.
26 See footnote 11.
27 Ibidem.
28 See footnote 18.
29 Ibidem.
30 Ibidem.
31 Ibidem.
32 See footnote 13.
33 See footnote 11.
34 See footnote 10.
35 Ibidem.
36 See footnote 11.