Queen's School in Kew Caroline Blomfield
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Queen's School
1742 - Charity schools, one for boys and one for girls, are opened briefly on Kew Green, supported by bequests from Lady Capel and Elizabeth Holford, and by local subscribers, led by Prince Frederick, his wife and sisters. For the following eighty years the children are taught in various houses, the church, Kew poorhouse, Richmond workhouse and intermittently in Brentford.
1824 - The King’s Free School is established in a small Gothic building near the pond, with George IV as a major subscriber, since when the name has changed according the sex of the sovereign
1897 - To accommodate the increasing number of children, the Queen’s School is rebuilt on three storeys, the royal dukes and duchesses of Cambridge and Cumberland leading the list of the subscribers
1970 - A new Queen’s School is built in Cumberland Rd, to become Kew’s only Anglican school after the closure of the neighbouring St Luke’s School in Sandycombe Road
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