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Grace, Lady Manners ( c. 1575 – c. 1650) was an English noblewoman who lived at Haddon Hall near Bakewell, Derbyshire. She founded Bakewell's Lady Manners School in 1636.
19 de sept. de 2022 · Grace, Lady Manners was an English noblewoman who lived at Haddon Hall near Bakewell, Derbyshire. She founded Lady Manners School in 1636 Grace Pierrepont was the daughter of Sir Henry Pierrepont, a Knight of the Garter, and Frances Cavendish.
- Holme Pierrepont, England
- Sir George Manners, MP
- England
- The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century
- 1896 to 1936
- The Modern School
- The House System
For most of the early history of the school it was very small compared with today. It has also been sited at different places within Bakewell. The records show that in the year 1774 there were about 50 boys in school – and this seems to have been a fairly normal number during the Eighteenth Century. By the Nineteenth Century the rules about teacher...
The school opened again for a completely fresh start on 22 September 1896. The big difference at this stage was that the school was now opened both for boys and for girls. This was unusual at that time and Lady Manners School was the first endowed school in the whole country to admit both boys and girls. The age range allowed was 8 to 18. Like now,...
In the 1930s the school moved again. There were more students and a new site had to be built. On 20 May 1936 – exactly 300 years after Lady Manners had started the school – the foundation stone for the buildings that we now have was laid by John Manners, 9th Duke of Rutland. You can still see this stone today. In 1972 the school stopped being a gra...
The House System was created in 1912. At that time there were three Houses established called Town, North and South. The planning for this took place during 1911 and the original reason for creating the Houses was to help develop Sport in school so that, with a competitive dimension, students would enthusiastically play for their Houses. This provi...
The school was founded in 1636 by Grace, Lady Manners. Since then it has moved sites and has occupied its current position since 1936, overlooking Bakewell in the heart of the Peak District. Today we have more than 1300 students studying the widest range of subjects that we have ever had.
Lady Manners School is an English secondary school located in Bakewell, a market town in the Peak District National Park, Derbyshire. It was founded on 20 May 1636 by Grace, Lady Manners, who lived at Haddon Hall, the current home of Lord and Lady Edward Manners, and has also in the past been known as the Bakewell Grammar School.
Grace Lady Manners (widow of Sir George Manners, who died in 1623,) in the year 1636, founded a free-school for instructing the poor children of Bakewell and Great-Rowsley in reading, writing, &c. and endowed it with a rent-charge of 15l. per annum, issuing out of lands at Elton.
Daughter of Henry Pierrepont and Frances (Cavendish) Pierrepont. Sister of Elizabeth (Pierrepont) Stapleton, Mary (Pierrepont) Cartwright, George Pierrepont, Frances Pierrepont, Robert Pierrepont and William Pierrepont. Wife of George Manners — married 2 Apr 1594 in Holme, Nottinghamshire, England. Descendants.
