28-592: John Wordsworth FBA (21 September 1843 – 16 August 1911) was an English Anglican bishop and classical scholar. He was Oriel Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture at the University of Oxford from 1883 to 1885, and Bishop of Salisbury from 1885 to 1911. He was born at Harrow on the Hill , to the priest (and later bishop) Christopher Wordsworth , nephew of the poet William Wordsworth . He
56-593: A prebendary of Lincoln Cathedral in 1870 and Whitehall Preacher in 1879. In 1878, Oxford University Press accepted a proposal from him for the publication of a critical edition of the Vulgate text of the New Testament, which should reproduce, so far as possible, the exact words of Jerome . The enterprise was in progress the rest of his life. As a preliminary to the substantive publication, certain important manuscripts were from 1883 onwards printed in full in
84-459: A conversation held some years before, recalled: "Some years ago ... when walking with him on the site of the present St Mark's School he said, 'I should like to see Salisbury a great educational centre. I should like to found a school which shall be equal to the greatest and best of our public schools .'" The school's motto – and his father's epitaph – " Veritas in Caritate " survives him to
112-679: A hall, science laboratories and a library were built. By the 1930s, the school had achieved a reputation for pioneering educational work, and in 1936 became a public school . During the Second World War , pupils from the Priory School in Portsmouth moved to BWS to avoid the bombing of the city. In 1948 the governors accepted voluntary controlled status , which meant being funded by Wiltshire County Council as local education authority and accepting its supervision. Boarding at
140-403: A plaque was placed at the school to commemorate Golding's time as a teacher. Headmaster Happold was also noted for the foundation of the "Company of Honour and Service". Kenelm Foster wrote: "[the company is] a sort of modernist Grail (for Boys) or Solidarity which Dr Happold founded in 1935 at Bishop Wordsworth's School, Salisbury. This is his nucleus, his 'order', his new aristocracy, which
168-525: A sixth form block was finished in July 2010. The old sports hall was converted to house the art department, and the design technology block has been expanded. In 2011 a new cookery room was completed with the reception moved from The Close to Exeter Street and in 2017 the new Maths Block was completed. In 2004 the school was awarded its first specialism in languages . In 2008 the school achieved an additional specialism in science . As part of its specialist work
196-678: Is Veritas in Caritate , taken from the Latin text of Ephesians 4:15: "(Speaking the) truth in love." The school was founded in June 1889, when the bishop of Salisbury , John Wordsworth , announced to his friend Canon Woodall, "I should like to see Salisbury a great educational centre. I should like to found a school which shall be equal to the greatest and best of our public schools ." His initial desire that working class boys were not to be admitted caused much controversy. Fees were initially set at £1.10s.0d , and boarding fees were £2 per term; however,
224-738: Is a Church of England boys' grammar school in Salisbury , Wiltshire for boys aged 11 to 18. The school is regularly amongst the top-performing schools in England, and in 2010 was the school with the best results in the English Baccalaureate . It was granted academy status in March 2011 and is an Additional Member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference . It is within the grounds of Salisbury Cathedral , adjacent to
252-612: Is administered by the head of sixth form, and is granted on the basis of GCSE results. Pupils must achieve more than 48 points (including 5 in maths and English) in their GCSEs to continue their studies in sixth form, as well as a relatively high grade in the options they propose to take. Sir William Golding , winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature , was a schoolmaster teaching philosophy and English in 1939, then English and religious education from 1945 to 1962. Lord of
280-471: Is based on published work and fellows may use the post-nominal letters FBA . Examples of Fellows are Edward Rand ; Mary Beard ; Roy Porter ; Nicholas Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford ; Michael Lobban ; M. R. James ; Friedrich Hayek ; John Maynard Keynes ; Lionel Robbins ; and Rowan Williams . This award -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Bishop Wordsworth%27s School Bishop Wordsworth's School
308-499: Is to permeate England: a little cohort of leaders, of seers, of doers." (Cited in Happold, 1964, pp. 33). Alan Harwood was a notable organ scholar and taught music at Bishop Wordsworth's School. After Harwood's death in 2003, composer Sam Hanson (organist/director of music at St Peter's Church, Bournemouth , formerly organ scholar at Jesus College, Cambridge ), dedicated a requiem to him. Former headmaster Clive Barnett (who left
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#1732782791357336-484: The Cathedral School . Sixth form teaching was in collaboration with South Wilts Grammar School for Girls until June 2020; from September 2020 the school admitted girls direct to its sixth form, with 45 joining Year 12. The school's full name is Bishop Wordsworth's Church of England Grammar School, shortened to BWS. It is known colloquially as Bishop's, and its students as Bishop's Boys. The school's motto
364-576: The Flies was Golding's first book, written in 1954, and it is widely believed that its main characters were based on Golding's students. Golding also regularly sang with Bishop Wordsworth's School choir. He was known affectionately as "Scruff" by the pupils due to his sometimes unkempt hair and beard and his carefree dress sense. After Golding's death in 1993, the school choir sang at his memorial service in Salisbury Cathedral. In March 2005
392-653: The bishop started his school in January 1890 in his own palace, the pupils moving to their new building in April 1890 when the new school was officially opened. The school was known at the time as the Bishop's School, being renamed the year after Wordsworth's death as Bishop Wordsworth's School . Wordsworth was married twice, first to Susan Esther Coxe (1870), daughter of the Bodleian librarian Henry Octavius Coxe , who died at
420-465: The fees were raised to £9 in 1894 to meet the unexpected costs of the school. During the first year, classes were taught in the bishop 's palace of Salisbury itself. Bishop Wordsworth personally donated £3000, which was used to purchase an area of land in the cathedral close and to build the school's first buildings. After Wordsworth's death, the school was renamed Bishop Wordsworth's School, having been previously known as "The Bishop's School". In 1905,
448-634: The following year he was elected Craven Scholar and a Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford and was ordained in the Church of England . He was Select Preacher before the University of Oxford in 1876 and 1888, Grinfield Lecturer on the Septuagint 1876–1878, and Bampton Lecturer in 1881. From 1883 until 1885 he held concurrently the positions of Oriel Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture and Fellow of Oriel at Oxford , and canon of Rochester Cathedral . He had already been appointed
476-446: The palace in 1894; and then to Mary Anne Frances Williams (1896). There were four sons and two daughters to his second marriage. Wordsworth undertook three major foreign visits during his episcopacy, the first to New Zealand as he recovered from the death of his first wife, and the others to Sweden in 1909 and to America in 1910. He died at the palace on 16 August 1911, working right up to the very end. A friend, Canon Woodall, remembering
504-609: The present day. John Wordsworth is buried in the churchyard of St. Peter's Church, Britford , near Salisbury. Fellow of the British Academy Fellowship of the British Academy ( post-nominal letters FBA ) is an award granted by the British Academy to leading academics for their distinction in the humanities and social sciences. The categories are: The award of fellowship
532-522: The school became a grammar school , its buildings consisting of the current Chapel Block and Bishopgate. Between 1905 and 1927 the school also used buildings in the Friary and also on New Street in Salisbury. Until 1928 the school admitted both boys and girls, but from 1927, with the founding of a girls' grammar school in the city called South Wilts Grammar School , the school admitted boys only. In 1931
560-414: The school has supported all of the city primary schools in Salisbury in languages, and many with science too. The school converted to single academy status in 2011. It has five houses, named after bishops of Salisbury: Poore , Osmund , Jewell , Martival and Ward . In 2016 the school was criticised for asking parents for money towards their sons' exam costs. One Bishop Wordsworth's School parent said
588-422: The school in 2002) is patron of the charity EdUKaid, a role he shares with Glenys Kinnock . In 2009 a retired teacher who was being investigated for indecent assault killed himself by inhaling helium. Nicholas Bray was found dead at his home by police officers on 12 June 2009 after failing to attend an appointment at Salisbury Police Station. He had been arrested in 2007 for an assault dating back several years and
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#1732782791357616-468: The school in the Bishopgate buildings ended in the 1950s, and the buildings were used for teaching thereafter. The school now educates boys aged 11 to 18 in years 7–13 and girls aged 16 to 18 in years 12–13. In 2002, a major redevelopment of the school's site and buildings commenced. A new classroom block and drama studio were followed by an extensive sports hall and physical education facilities, and
644-420: The school was not private and should not be "money grabbing". Headmaster Stuart Smallwood defended the school saying it did not receive enough government funding and that the payments were entirely optional. In October 2021, it was reported that Wiltshire Police had investigated drugs activity among a small number of pupils. The previous month, a 14-year-old boy had been arrested on suspicion of being involved in
672-631: The series Old-Latin Biblical Texts . Subsequently, he associated with himself in his work Henry Julian White . In 1885, at the age of 42, he became Bishop of Salisbury . Three years into his term of office at Salisbury, Wordsworth inaugurated the Salisbury Church Day School Association. Salisbury had reached a time of educational and political crisis and the Association set about the task of raising
700-598: The supply of Class A drugs . In March 2023, it was reported that a student in Year 10 had been arrested on suspicion of sending social media messages threatening to perform a mass shooting at the school. Entry to the school is regulated by the 11-plus . Applicants sit the test in year 6, at the age of 10 or 11. The exams are held in September at the school itself. There are also limited twelve plus and thirteen plus admissions, similarly by examination. Sixth form admission
728-401: The £14,000 necessary to build three new primary schools and to add an infants' department to the existing St Thomas’ School, thus accommodating another 1,121 children. In addition Wordsworth founded his own school at a cost of £3,000, entirely at his own expense. He purchased a piece of land adjoining the grounds of the palace and started building in 1889. Whilst building work was being completed,
756-405: Was born into a clerical family: his father was to become Bishop of Lincoln , his uncle, Charles Wordsworth , Bishop of Saint Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane , and his grandfather, Christopher Wordsworth had been Master of Trinity College, Cambridge . John Wordsworth was a precocious child, the third in a family of seven and the elder of two brothers. His younger brother Christopher (1848–1938)
784-562: Was to become a noted liturgical scholar, and his eldest sister Dame Elizabeth Wordsworth was a pioneer of women's higher education and the founding Principal of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford . He studied at Winchester College and New College, Oxford , where he was awarded a First in Classical Moderations (1863) and a Second in Greats (1865) ( MA 1868). He became an Assistant Master at Wellington College in 1866. In
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