Merchant Taylors' School.

Merchant Taylors' School. This great London day-school, with 500 boys in 1890, was founded, and is still governed, solely by the master, wardens, and company of Merchant Taylors. The first school-house was built in 1561 in Suffolk Lane. This building was destroyed in the great fire of 1666, but it was in 1671-74 rebuilt on the same site. When the Charterhouse School was removed into the country, the Merchant Taylors bought land from the governors of the Charterhouse for £90,000, and in 1873-74 erected, at a cost of £30,000, their present school-house on the site of the old gown boys' quarters of the Charterhouse. Richard Mulcaster was the first master of the school, and among its scholars have been Edmund Spenser, Bishop Andrewes, James Shirley, Archbishop Juxon, Titus Oates, Lord Clive, Charles Mathews, and Sir Henry Ellis. See the Rev. C. J. Robinson's Register of the Scholars admitted to Merchant Taylors', 1562-1874 (2 vols. 1882-83).