Highgate School Museum

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Earliest photograph of Highgate School Masters, 1872.
Letters Patent of Queen Elizabeth I authorising the foundation of a school by Sir Roger Cholmeley. 29 January 1565.
Act of Parliament enabling the Governors to pull down the School Chapel and to contribute to the erection of a new village church, the present day St Michael’s Church, 17 June 1830.
The Highgate Tabernacle in the 1920s. Now Highgate School Museum.
Counterpart of the Grant by Sir Roger Cholmeley of the possessions of the Free Grammar School of Highgate, of the Chapel of Highgate and lands in the City to the Governors of the School, 7 June 1565.
Signature of Sir Roger Cholmeley who founded Highgate School in 1565.
Copy extract from the 'Journal of the House of Commons', removing Thomas Carter (Master 1639-44) from his post ‘for drunkenness’, 9 July 1644.
Slate used by Head Master John Bradley Dyne’s for taking the daily register of attendance, c. 1865-69.
The poet Gerard Manley Hopkins was a pupil from 1854 to 1863. He is pictured here with the 1862 School Library Register showing him to be a keen student.
Highgate School sports medals awarded to Alexander John Neeve Williamson for the ‘half mile’ and ‘mile’ (1904-06) and the ‘quarter mile’ and 100 yards (1907). Williamson was the first English schoolmaster to die in the First World War.
First World War letters of Arthur Preston White who taught at Highgate from 1919 to 1951. He saw action at the battles of Neuve Chapelle, Loos, Somme and Lys. He was wounded in May 1918.