| Administrative History | The Grammar School at Tideswell was founded by Bishop Robert Pursglove (c.1504-1579) in 1559/60. Letters Patent were dated 18 Nov 1559 and the deed of incorporation 18 Jun 1560. Pursglove was born at Tideswell and educated at St Paul's School, London and at Oxford University. He went on to become Bishop of Hull (1538), Archdeacon of Nottingham (1549/50) and Prebend of Oxton (1558). As well as the Grammar School and the dole for the poor at Tideswell he founded a grammar school at Guisborough (Yorks). The whereabouts of the Letters Patent and deed of incorporation are not known. In 1911 the Letters Patent (minus the seal) was handed over to the school by a Mr Montagu Hall of Manchester (see correspondence D280/112/1-8). Montagu had acquired it from his grandfather, Joseph Hall of Castleton who may have been solicitor to the governors in the 1850s. In 1933 when Thomas Middleton wrote his History of Tideswell Grammar School (Caxton Press, 1933) both the Letters Patent and deed of incorporation were in the hands of the governors. (Middleton's work includes a photograph of the documents on p20) |
| Custodial History | These records were deposited in Derbyshire Record Office in September 1964 and donated in May 2010 |