DIRECTORY.] . . 669 Braull,t.On. Brooke. B.,rlev. C:old Overton. Cotte3more, Collector of Poor Rates & Taxes, William Swift, North­ Edith Weston, Eglet.on, ExtOl!, Gr..etham, Gunthorpe, gate street Hambleton, Horn, Knossingtoll, Langbam, Leigbfield, Inspector of Weights & Measur{'s for the County, George Lyndon, Manton, Market Overton, Martinsthorpc, N or­ Phillips, Station road manton, Oakham, Owston, Stretton, , Thi,tleton, Chief Inspector under the Adulteration of Food Act, Con­ Wbi.sendine, Whitwell, Witbeote, Wbatborough tagious Diseases (Animals) Act, Gunpowder & Explosive For Bankruptcv purposes thi> Court is included in that of Act & Petroleum Act, William Wilson, Police station Leicester; Evan Barlow, 1 Berridge street, Leicester, Sheriff's Officer for County, William Swift, N orthg.~te st official receiver Town Crier, Harry Ellingworth, Melton road Certified Bailiffs appflinted under the "Law of Distress Amendment Act," John Royce, Oakham; David Need­ PLACES OF WORSHIP, with times of S"vices. ham Rovce, Oakbam All Saints' Church, Rev. James Hamilton Charles M.A. County Police Station, Station road, William Wilson, chief vicar, rural dean & surrogate; Rev. Ernest D. Gilbert constable, 2 inspectors, 1 sergeant & 12 constables M.A. & Rev. Robert Godlonton Bisseker B.A. curates; Inland Revenue Office, road, Leonard Skingley, 8 & 11 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; matins, 8 a.m. & evensong, officer; corn returns are taken at the George hotel 6 p.m. daily, except thurs.; thurs. evensong, 7 p.m.; Oakham & District Cottage Hospital, Mill street, Alfred saints' days, holy communion, 8 a.m Blake Norman L.R.c.p.Edin., M.R.c.s.Eng. William Morris SS. J oseph & Edith [Catholic], Mill street, Rev. Charles Keal L.R.C.P. & s.Edin., L.F.P. & s.Glas. & Francis Robert Payne, of Exton, priest; mass, sunday, at 9.30 a.m. & Seppings Cosens M.R.c.s.Eng., L.R.c.p.Lond. medical benediction 4 p.m.; holidays of obligation, mass, 10.30 officers; Mrs. J. Furley, hon. sec.; Miss A. Brown, a.m matron Baptist, Melton road, Rev. Howard Thompson Neville Oak ham Fire Brigade, Mill street, William Ellicott, capt.; Ussher; 10.45 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; wed. 8 p.m William Munton, sub-capt. & 7 men Particular Baptist [Providence], New street, Rev. Albert Oakham Institute, High street, John Gretton esq. M.P. White; 10.45 a.m. & 2.30 & 6.30 p.m.; tues. 7 p.m president; James W. Munton, sec.; B. A. Adam esq. Congregational, High street, Rev. David Prothero B.A., hon. treasurer; J ames Wilkinson, caretaker B.SC., B.D.; 10.45 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; thurs. 7 p.m Victoria Hall, High street, J. E. Whitehouse, sec Primitive Methodist, Dean's street; 10.45 a.m. & 6 p.m. ; thurs. 8 p.m TERRITORIAL FORCE. Wesleyan Methodist, Northgate· street (Melton Mowbray (Prince Albert's Own) Yeomanry (A Squadron), Circuit), Rev. Bertram Cooper; 10.45 a.m. & 6.30 p.m. ; Major the Hon. P. C. Evans-Freke, commanding; Capt. tues. 8 p.m H. T. Barclay, second in command; Squadron-Sergt.­ SCHOOLS. Major Charles Dickins, Saxby road, Melton Mow-bray, drill instructor Archdeacon Johnson's School, Oakham. 5th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment (B Co.), Capt. T. Archdeacon Johnson's Rutland Charity, which embraces C. P. Beasley; Col.-Sergt. G. Daft, drill instructor the schools of Oakham & Uppingham & a provision for certain poor pensioners, called the Bede-House people, OFFICERS' TRAINING CORPS. was founded by Robert J ohnson, archdeacon of Leicester, in the year 1584: he endowed the charity with certain Contingent of the Junior Division. lands & impropriat.ions (in different parishes), the value Oakham School, R. F. S. Cosens, captain lone company of which is now about £3,000 yearly: he appointed infantry) governors for the management of the whole fOlmdation, OAKH.nI UNION. but each scbool now has its own separate body of trustees, & the governors manage the estates & appoint the Bede­ Oakham union comprises the following places :-A5hwell, House people. The school was re-constituted under a Barleythorpe, Barrow, Braunston, Brooke, Hurley, Cold scheme by the Endowed Schools Commissioners, ap­ Overton (Leicestershire), Cottesmore, Edith Weston, Egle­ proved by Her Majesty in Council on May 13th, 1875, ton, Empingham, Exton, Greetham, Gunthorpe, Ham­ the object being to secure a first-class modern school, bleton, Horn, Knossington (Leicestershire), Langham, & it is now a Secondary School under the Board of Edu­ Leighfleld, Lyndon, Manton, Market Overton, Martins­ cation; the old school-house, situate at the south-west thorpe, Normanton, Oakham, Stretton, Teigb. Tbistle­ of the Market place, is a modern building of stone, ton, Tickencote, Whissendine, Whitwell. The area designed by Sir Sydney Smirke; a wing was added of the union is 58,001 acres; rateable value, Lady Day, about 1890, & the whole building, which will now hold 90 1912, £106,887'; the population in 1911 was 11,035, boys, includes head master's residence, school-rooms, including £4,539 of ~the ~two Leicestershire parishes boarders' dining-roonl, library, mU3ic-rooffi, SCIenCe-fOom Board day, monday, fortnightly. & laboratory, swimming bath, sanatorium, carpenter's

Chairman of the Board of Guardians, Henry Randolph shop, gymna3ium, hOtlSe3 for boarders & dorrnitorie.:'i t Finch, Manton, Oakham & all the boys have studie,: over the principal elltrancp, Clerk to Guardiam & A"elSment CommiUee, William Batts, ~arved in relief, are the arm, of the founder: the Catmose street school-room, with three class rooms, was erected in 1880 Treasurer, Joseph William Scott, Barclay's Bank, High st at a cost of about £1,600: a school house for the junior Collectors, Langham, Joseph McClelland; Oakham, William boys was erected in 1910 for 16 boarders, and is the Swift, Whissendine, William Ashwell property of W. L. Sargant esq. M.A.: attached to the school Medical Officers & Public Vaccinators, Empingham dis­ are the following scholarships, exhibitions & prizes :-At t.rict, Edgar Steele Edwards M.R.c.s.Eng., L.R.c.PLond. the universities, sixteen exhibitions of from £20 to £30 a The Wilderness, Erupingbam; Market OVl'rton district, year each, founded by Archdeacon Jobnson at Cambridge, John Arthur Parsons ,r.D. Market Overton; Oakham to which boys from Oakham & Uppingham schools have district, William Morris Kcal L.R.C.S. & L.R.c.p.Edin. the preference; five or six of these exhibitions are awarded Bnrley road, Oakham every year & they are tenable for four years; two exhibi­ Relieving & Vaccination Officer for the Union, James tions of £30 a year each; for graduate clergymen's sons Alderwood, West road. Oakham at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, to which boys Workhouse, Ashwell road, a building of stone, to hold 150 from Oakham school have the preference, in default of inmates; Henry Sargeant, master; William Morris fitly qualified candidates from Grantham school: tbe Keal L.R.C.P. & s.Edin. medical officer; Rev. Charles sum of £200 is yearly assigned by the trustees for leaving James Blomfield Scriven M.A. chaplain; Mrs. ::-.orence exhibitions, tenable for two years at least, by boys leaving Sargeant, matron the school for the universities, Woolwich, Sandhurst, Cooper's Hill, the Inns of Court, hospitals or any other OAKHAM: REGISTRATION DISTRICT. place of higher education, & these can be held with the Superintendent Registrar, William Batts, Catmose street, open scholarships or exhibitions mentioned above: at Oakham; deputy, William Waiter Roberts, Catmose the school there are several house scholarships, fro,"­ street, Oakham £40 to £20, open to all corners, to be competed for annually Registrar of Dirths, Death. & Marria~ps, William Swift, in April, two or three being awarded in each year: nouse Northgate street, Oakham; deputy, Hy. S. Dexter, exhibitions of £15 a year are offered at the same time, Brooke road, Oakham boys of Rutland having the preference, & there are also four exhibitions of £25 a year each, open to boys of PUBLIC OFFICERS. Rutland, & tenable at either Oakham or Uppingham Custodian of the Castle, John Edward Whitehouse, High st schools: there are now (1912) 101 boys, chielly boarders: Clerk of the Peace & Clerk of the C,Junty C,JlUlcil, llen­ the Bch JOi is under the management of 15 trustees, one jamin A. Adam, Catmose street of whom is an hereditary trustee (being the right heir Certifying Factory Surgeon, Alfred Blake Norman L.R.C.P. male of the founder), two others are ex-officio, & there Edin., )[.R.C.s.Eng. Market place are nine representative & three co-optative trusteee.