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253: 324: 701: 22: 254: 272:. He founded 11 schools for the middle classes in England whose aim was to provide education based on "sound principle and sound knowledge, firmly grounded in the Christian faith". His educational principles are promoted today through the 292:(now known as Barstable Hall) the son of John Woodard, a country gentleman of limited means. He was brought up and educated privately by his mother Mary née Silley, a pious and devout woman. In 1834 he entered 137: 397:. It was from these beginnings that he started to work full-time on promoting educational projects, resigning from his curacy in 1850. Woodard was supported in these endeavours by 595:
The schools he founded became known collectively as the "Woodard Schools", being joined by others to form an influential group. These are now administered by a holding company –
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churches. The efforts of Woodard and his supporters raised about £500,000 by the time of his death in 1891, and Woodard succeeded in gaining the admiration of people like
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when he first became a student at Oxford, but, whilst he was there, he soon found himself strongly drawn to the growing
39: 260: 105: 744: 599:– a registered charity operating over 20 private schools with many other schools affiliated or associated with it. 575: 72: 393:. This was merged in 1849 to form the College of St Mary and St Nicolas, which eventually formed the present day 531: 774: 43: 54: 724: 448: 480:'... till the Church educates and trains up the middle classes, she can never effectually educate the poor' 542: 347: 297: 199: 596: 590: 452: 425: 32: 508: 463: 328: 181: 79: 436: 351: 293: 759: 754: 421: 409: 203: 494:
In his lifetime Nathaniel Woodard founded eleven schools and acquired a number of others.
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As a result of the influence of his mother, Woodard's religious sympathies were
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beliefs, and in contrast to similar although less successful work by
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Mission to the Middle Classes: the Woodard schools, 1848-1891
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In Search of Nathaniel Woodard: Victorian Founder of Schools
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The extent of his success was recognised in 1870 when the
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sympathies that he kept for the remainder of his life.
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Janet Pennington, "Woodard, Nathaniel (1811–1891)",
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