DIRECTORY.] . BISHOP'S STORTFORD. 723 Treasurer, A. Taylor, Hockerill Bedfordshire Regiment 1st (Hertfordshire) Volunteer Medical Officer of Health, Geo.Turner, Rosslyn,Broxbourne Battalion (C Company). Capt. James Lewis Wigan; 8urveyor, Robert S. Scott C.E. Grange road sergeant-instructor, Josepb Bowie, White Horse yard, Sanitary Inspector, Alfred Cass, South street North street Collector, John Pratt, South street Police Station, Cburch street, Joseph Penn,superintendent ; Water Rate Collector, Alfred Cass, South street 1 sergeant & 6 constables School Attendance Officer, Henry Wm. Young, Hadham rd Volunteer :Fire Brigade, established June 1880; H. W. BISHOP'S STORTFORD UNION. Wigan esq. captain; A. Barratt, first-lieut.; Frank Board day, alternate tuesdays, 11. Glasscock, second-lieut. ; J. W. Millard, engineer; & 10 men The Union comprises the following parishes :-Albury, Berden, Birchanger, Bisbop's Stortford, , Brent PUBLIC OFFICERS:- Pelham, Elsenham, Farnham, Furneaux Pelham, Great Assistant Overseer, Thomas Swatheridge, Hadham road Hadham, , Great Hallingbury, Little Hal­ Collector of Income & Assessed Taxes, A. Cass, South st lingbury, Henham, Manuden, , Stansted Coroner for East Herts, Henry Baker, North street Mountfitchet, Stocking Pelham, 'rhorley & Ugley: the Sub-distributor of Stamps, Arthur Boardman, North st population of the union in 1881 was 21,801; rateable Surveyor of the River Stort Navigation Company, J. P. value, £110,974 Davis, Latton Island, Harlow Clerk to the Guardians & Assessment Committee, Henry Town Crier, Samuel Warner, London road Baker, North street PLACES OF WORSHIP, with times of services:- Treasurer, Alfred raylor St. Michal's Church, Rev. G. S. Bayne M.A. vicar; Rev. Collectors to the Guardians, John Pratt, South street & J. Sidney Pittman A.K.C. & Rev. Edward Domett ShawM.A. W. Truswell, Sawbridgeworth curates; II a.m. & 3 & 6,30 p.m.; wed. 11 a.m. & 7 p.m.; Relieving Officers, 1st district, A. J. D. Ewans, Hockerill, frL 11 a.m. ; H. J. Tucker, sexton Bishop's Stortford ; 2nd district, JosepbFreeman,Stansted All Saints', Hockerill, Rev. John Menet M.A. vicar; II a.m. Mountfitchet; 3rd district, T. W. Brown, Little Hadham & 3.30 & 6.30 p.m. ; holy corn. every sun. at 8 a.m Medical Officers & Public Vaccinators, Braughing district, Holy Trinity, Rev. Daniel Macaulay B,A. vicar; II a.m. & James Bryce M.D., C.M. Puckeridge; Hadham district, 6.30 p.m William Blundell Willans L,R,C.p.Edin. Great Hadham ; Society of P'riends Hallingbury district, Henry Cribb L.R.c.p.Lond. North Baptist, Rev. George Hy. Kilby, minister; 10.30 a.m. & street, BishOp's Stortford; Pelham district, Patrick Gill 6.30 p.m. ; mono & wed. 7,30 p.m Griffith L.R.C.p.Edin. Furneaux Pelham; Sawbridge­ Congregational, Rev. John Wood, minister; 10.30 a..m. & worth district. Eustace Arthur Brickwell, Sawbridge­ 6.30 p.m. ; wed. 7.30 p.m worth; Stansted district, Sydney Haynes, Stansted Wesleyan, Rev. James Green, minister; 10.30 a.m. & 6.30 Mountfitchet; Stortford district,John Edward Morris M.D. p.m. ; mono & wed. 7.30 p.m Windhill, Bishop's Stortford Salvation Army Hall Superintendent Registrar, Henry Baker, North street, SCHOOLS :- Bishop's Stortford The Grammar School, now called the" High School," was Deputy, C. V. Thorneycroft. North st. Bishop's Stortford founded, it is said, in the 20 Elizabeth (1577-8), but by Registrars of Births & Deaths, Bishop's Stortford district, whom is uncertain: Mrs. Margaret Dean, of London, be­ Alfred G. Gwynn, North street, Bishop's Stortford; queathed by will in 1579 £5 yearly to the school, which deputy, Alfred J. D. Ewans, Hockerill, Stansted district, bequest, reduced now to £2 IOS. is paid by the Iron­ Joseph Freeman, Stansted; deputy, George Phillips, mongers' Company: an excellent library, presented by Stansted ; Braughing district, T. W. Brown, Little Had­ Thomas Leigb esq. some time master of tbe school, was ham; Sawbridgeworth district, John E. Edwards; deputy, increased by his second son, the Rev. Thomas Leigh, J. W. Truswell, London road, Sawbridgeworth vicar of this parish from 1680 to 1686, & by other bene­ Registrar of Marriages for the Union, Alfred G. Gwynn, factors to aoout 1,300 volumes & now (1890) consists of North street, Bishop's Stortford; deputy, Alfred J. D. about 2,000 volumes: in this school Sir Henry Chauncey, Ewans, Hockerill, Bishop's Stortford author of the" History & Antiquities of Hertfordshire," Workhouse, a building of brick & stone, to hold 455 born at Bishop's Stortford in 1632, was educated; after inmates, William Robert Willcocks, master; Rev. John Mr. Leigh's death the school declined, until the appoint­ Eaton, cbaplain; Henry Cribb L.R.c.p.LOnd. medical ment of Dr. Thomas Tooke, who rebuilt the premises & officer; Mrs. Sarah Willcocks,matron ; Miss Sarah Wright, raised the school to a high degree of reputation; he died schoolmistress; Henry Woods, labour master; Francis & in 1713; in 1768, the buildings, being dilapidated, were Mrs. Martha Catherine Gatward, porter &portress ; Mrs. pulled down: after having ceased to exist for nearly a Amelia iVIcCarter, nurse century the school was revived in 1850 by the Rev. F. W. Rhodes, then vicar, & a committee was appointed to raise RURAL SANIrARY AUTHORlTY. funds for the erection of a school house, eventually opened Day of Meeting, first thursday in every month at the July 16th, 1850: the premises, situated in Hadham road, Clerk's office, North st. Bishop's Stortford at 11.30 a. m were enlarged in 1853 & in 1860 a school house, with room Clerk, Henry Baker, North street, Bishop's Stortford for nearly 70 boarders, was erected for the head master Treasurer, Alfred Taylor, Bishop's Iiltortford at a total cost of £4,500: the Rev. Edward Domett Shaw Medical Officer of Health, George Turner M.D. Rosslyn, M. A. head master Hroxbourne The Traiuing College for the diocese of St. Albans, situated Sanitary Inspector, E. T. Watts, Thorley on an eminence near Hockerill ch.urch &; opened Nov. SCHOOL ATTENDANCE COMMITTEE. 1852, is a structure of red brick in the Gothic style, Meets at Workbouse every six weeks, on tues. at 10 a.m. erected from designs by Mr. Joseph Clarke, architect, at Clerk, Henry Baker, North street, Bishop's Stortford a cost of nearly £11,000, including a grant of £3,000 Attendance & Inquiry Officers, T. W. Brown, Little Had- from the Committee of Privy Council on Education: in ham; Joseph }1'reeman, Stansted; John W. Truswell, 1890 a recreation room & library were added: tbe object Sawbridgeworth of the institution is to train mistresses- for elementary schools; students are received for two years & there are PUBLIC ESTABLISHMENTS :- now (1890) 60: the Rev. William John Frere M.A. of Cemetery, William Gee, Water lane, clerk to the burial Magdalen College, Oxford, is principa.l & secretary; Mrs. board; H. 1. Tucker, caretaker J. Blunt, supermtendent Corn Exchange & Market House, Market place The Nonconformist Grammar School, opened in September, County Court,His Honor William Henry Gunning Bagshawe 1868, by the East of Nonconformist School Com­ Q.C. judge; B. T. L. Ackland LL.M. registrar & higb pany Limited, is beautifully situated on rising ground in bailiff; A. Nockolds esq. deputy registrar; George the suburbs & is a building of brick & stone, comprising Miller, bailiff. Court held at the Great Hall every two a school house for over 100 boarders, a. carpenter's shop, months. The district comprises :-Albury, Herden, library, laboratory, infirmary &cottage hospitalattached ; Birchanger, Bishop's I::ltortford, Braughing, Elsenham, there are also large play and cricket grounds, fives &tennis Farnham. Hadham (Great), Hadham (Little), Henham, courts & residences for the masters; the present num­ Harlow, Hallingbury (Great),Hallingbury (Little), Manu­ ber of scholars is about 100; the Rev. R. AUiott M.A. is den, Matching, Pelham (Furneaux), Pelham (Brent), head master; Jobn Stuart, A. H. Blandford B.A.LOnd. Pelham (Stocking), Sawbridgeworth, Stansted Mount­ C. W. Cousins, C. Ellis Youngman M.A. J. M. Burnett B.A. fitchet, Sheering, Thorley & Ugley John Hrassel & C. D. Whittaker M.A. assistant masters Certified Bailiff:! under the Law of Distress Amendment The Nonconformist High School for Girls, established in Act, Sworder & Snns, North street 1871, by the East Anglian Gil"1s' College Company, is Inland Revenue Office, Potter street, William Thomas situated in Nort~aate End; there are now (1890) 26 Ashall, supervisor, Sawbrldgeworth; Thomas Knight, g-irls; Miss Laura Jeeves is the lady principal; the Rev. North terrace, officer F. Edwards B.A. secretary