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179:, was the Rector of Saffron Walden. The grammar school by its constitution was for the benefit of the town and three villages in its vicinity. Joan and her brother, along with the local abbot and monastery, arranged its endowment with local guilds. They erected a school house and school room and Dame Joan "granted a rent charge for the support of a priest and to teach the children grammar after the order and use of 258:, is said to have been born at Saffron Walden. However, according to Smith's biographer, Mary Dewar, 'Earlier traditions associating his education with Saffron Walden Grammar School are unfounded, despite his later interest in it'. Smith did, however, cause the school to become a royal foundation in the reign of 202:
The original building, designed for 60 pupils, flanked the churchyard wall. It was replaced in 1655 by new premises in Castle Street. After over two hundred years in these buildings, which in part still stand today, the school moved to new buildings in 1881 in Ashdon Road which remained the home of
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The earliest schools in Walden dated from 1423 under the control of the neighbouring monastery. The Grammar School was founded by
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William Dawson, later knighted, was the first master.
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Saffron Walden
Essex
Coordinates
52°01′33″N 0°15′09″E / 52.0258°N 0.2524°E / 52.0258; 0.2524
Dame Joan Bradbury
Essex
Saffron Walden
Eton College
Winchester
Dame Joan Bradbury
Lord Mayor
John Leche
Winchester
Eton
Edward VI
Tudor royal arms
Second World War
Debden airfield
Trinity College, Dublin
Queens' College, Cambridge
Category:People educated at Saffron Walden Grammar School
Sir Thomas Smith
Edward VI
Elizabeth I
King Edward VI
Gabriel Harvey
Thomas Nashe
Have with You to Saffron-Walden
Edward Mellish
Victoria Cross

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