During the 16th and 17th centuries the setting up of grammar schools became a common act of charity by nobles, wealthy merchants and guilds ; for example Spalding Grammar School, founded by John Gamlyn and John Blanche in 1588, and Blundell's School, founded in 1604 by wealthy Tiverton merchant Peter Blundell.

He never became a Fellow, but was appointed to be the headmaster of Spalding Grammar School before he was 21.

Spalding Grammar School ( a boys ' school )

The town's state grammar schools ( still selective by 11 + exam ) are Spalding Queen Elizabeth Royal Free Grammar School ( 11-16 for boys ) and Spalding High School ( 11-16 for girls ), both of which have mixed sixth forms ( 16-18 ).

He attended Moulton Grammar School which transferred to Spalding Grammar School in 1939.

Category: People educated at Spalding Grammar School

The School opened in 1562 with ten pupils and continued to educate boys until 1939 when it merged with Spalding Grammar School.

* Spalding Grammar School

* Inuktitut: a Grammar of North Baffin Dialects, Alex Spalding, 1992.

The former Spalding Grammar School student left Moulton Harrox a few years later when he joined Lincoln City.

Hörstmar County Primary School in Lemgo has a twin school in Holme on Spalding Moor since 1989.

* Spalding Catholic High School, Granville, Iowa

She was educated at the single-sex Spalding High School.

Category: People educated at Spalding High School ( UK )

* Spalding High School ( disambiguation ), the name of several high schools

ARENA ARTISTS ● Sunday, September 23: Esperanza Spalding ; Next Generation Jazz Orchestra, directed by Paul Contos with Ambrose Akinmusire ; Top High School Big Band from the 2012 Next Generation Jazz Festival ; Pat Metheny Unity Band with Chris Potter, Antonio Sanchez, Ben Williams ; Monterey Jazz Festival On Tour / 55th Anniversary Celebration with Dee Dee Bridgewater, Christian McBride, Ambrose Akinmusire, Chris Potter, Benny Green, Lewis Nash.

Crowland school pupils have the option of single sex grammar school education ten miles away at Spalding, and sixth form students attend other schools, again at Spalding or at Deeping St James.

St John's, the Parish Church of St John the Baptist, built in 1875 at the same time as the Church school next door, Spalding Parish Church itself ( St Mary and St Nicolas, Spalding ) has a handsome spire visible for miles around and dates from the 13th century.

In 1853 Louisville Bishop Martin Spalding invited the Xaverian brothers to open a school in his diocese, and in 1854 the first colony of brothers moved to the United States.

In 1831, Catherine Spalding moved from Bardstown to Louisville and established Presentation Academy, a Catholic school for girls.

Spalding retired from playing baseball in 1878, although he continued as a major force as owner of the White Stockings and major influence on the National League.

After three years of searching, on December 30, 1907, Spalding received a letter that ( erroneously ) declared baseball to be the invention of Abner Doubleday.

Baseball, said Spalding, was fundamentally an American sport and began on American soil.

Esperanza Spalding performing on 10 December 2009 at the Nobel Peace Prize | Nobel Peace Prize Concert of 2009

Chadwick edited The Beadle Baseball Player, the first baseball guide on public sale, as well as the Spalding and Reach annual guides for a number of years and in this capacity promoted the game and influenced the then-infant discipline of sports journalism.

In this image taken by William O. Owen in 1898, his climbing partners John Shive, Franklin Spalding, and Frank Petersen are depicted on top of Grand Teton.

The first ascent of Grand Teton that is substantiated was made by William O. Owen, Frank Petersen, John Shive and Franklin Spencer Spalding on August 11, 1898.

* The coastal route, on the marine silts, crossed the mouth of Bicker Haven towards Spalding.

Sometime around noon on the 22nd, Major Spalding left the station for Helpmekaar to ascertain the whereabouts of Rainforth's G Company, which was now overdue.

Her mark, di Ego Godiva Comitissa diu istud desideravi The Countess Godiva, have desired this for a long time, appears on a charter purportedly given by Thorold of Bucknall to the Benedictine monastery of Spalding.

* Escarpment Sanctuary – A small nature preserve located on Greiner Road that is losing land to the upscale Spalding Lake development.

The Athens Historic District, Protection of the Flag Monument, Spalding Memorial Library-Tioga Point Museum, and Bridge in Athens Township are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

In April 1729, the Deeping Fen Adventurers received a letter from Captain John Perry, expressing the opinion that the only way to improve the drainage was to improve the river outfalls, and proposing the construction of scouring sluices on the river at Spalding, on Vernatt's drain at its outfall, and on the River Glen at Surfleet.

James Walker reported in 1835 on further improvements, making the recommendation that the river below Spalding should be constrained between high banks, so that the scouring action of the water would dredge its own channel.

Below Spalding, there were no restrictions on headroom, which allowed small coasters to reach the town.

In 1792, Thomas Hawkes wrote about trade in timber, which was carried from Bourne to Spalding, and there was a boat which carried passengers to the market at Spalding on Tuesdays, but he comments that the service was erratic, as there was often too little or too much water for the vessels to operate.

A railway from Boston to Spalding opened in 1848, while the line from Spalding opened to Bourne in 1866 and on to Sleaford in 1872.

The section between Peterborough and Spalding closed to passengers on 5 October 1970 and re-opened on 7 June 1971

* North of Spalding, Ruskington Station re-opened on 5 May 1975.

Three new lines opened in 1867 were March to Spalding on 1 April, Honington to Lincoln on 15 April and Gainsborough to Doncaster on 15 July.

Fenland monastic houses include the so-called Fen Five ( Ely Cathedral Priory, Thorney Abbey, Croyland Abbey, Ramsey Abbey and Peterborough Abbey ) as well as Spalding Abbey.

He is probably the William Barbour who was ordained acolyte by Bishop Fleming of Lincoln on 21 April 1420 and subdeacon on 21 January 1421 ; and as William Barbour, otherwise Waynflete of Spalding, was ordained deacon on 18 March 1421, and priest on 21 January 1426, with title from Spalding Priory.

It was presumably named after a previous chapel at Walcott, dedicated to Saint Oswald, and given by King John to Spalding Priory, which formerly stood in the centre of the village.

* Spalding Priory, a small Benedictine house founded as a cell of Croyland Abbey in 1052

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