Talk:Public Schools Act 1868

Term "public school" disliked?

 * although now disliked by the original nine schools and their representative associations

Please could we have some evidence for the suggestion that the original nine public schools and their representative associations dislike being called public schools.--Oxonian2006 13:52, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

After six months, no-one has added a citation for the above claim, so I have removed it. Frank Walsh (1962) (talk) 16:48, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Six in London? Really?
Eton certainly isn't in London, and I'm not sure if Harrow was in 1868 either. Westminster and St. Paul's certainly are, as are the 1868 sites of Charterhouse and Merchant Taylors'. Lexiconius (talk) 00:48, 24 November 2011 (UTC)

Nine Public Schools?
Whilst the Clarendon Commission did investigate the nine public schools mentioned in this article, the Public Schools Act of 1868 only concerned itself with seven of the schools. St Paul's and Merchant Taylors' had successfully argued, during the commission, that they were in fact private schools; this and the fact that they were day schools, excluded them from the definition of a public school and therefore they were not included in the act of parliament.

A copy of the act can be accessed here: Public Schools Act — Preceding unsigned comment added by 101.98.129.169 (talk) 01:05, 25 May 2012 (UTC)

Brighton College
An editor, working from different IP addresses, has repeatedly added Brighton College to the list of schools that were investigated by the Clarendon Commission, and dealt with by the 1868 act – in this article, in the Clarendon Commission article, and in the Public school (United Kingdom) article. I have been sceptical about this claim, but in view of this edit, with its justification that "Brighton College was excluded from this list. When inspecting 'A practical handbook to the principal schools of England (Charles Eyre Pascoe, 1877), it appears they were added at one of the final stages. Checked with Brighton College archives too.", I have assumed that there might have been some element of fact behind it, and that the edits were made in good faith. I have now come to the conclusion that they are simply vandalism. There is certainly no mention of Brighton College in the text of the 1868 act (a link to which the IP has deleted in their last edit). They have several times cited Pascoe's 1877 book, and linked to it on Google Books: as it hasn't been digitised, that's not particularly helpful, but I have now checked a physical copy, and it contains no mention whatsoever of Brighton College (or, indeed, any discussion of the Clarendon Commission or the 1868 Act). I have also looked at a copy of Colin Shrosbree's 1988 book on the Clarendon Commission, and that contains no mention of Brighton College either, though it does make the point that the original parliamentary proposal was for a Royal Commission to investigate all endowed schools, but that for practical reasons that was cut down to nine. I am therefore reverting both this and the Clarendon Commission articles to the last clean versions. GrindtXX (talk) 14:49, 7 November 2015 (UTC)