PREFACE

IT WILL, we hope, be readily understood that the preparation of a School Register for publication is a task of no little difficulty, and in the present case, unfortunately, neither of us can claim to have any special advantages in the way of leisure or local knowledge.

To carry out the work as we should like to see it carried out would require abundant leisure and wide local knowledge, and the lack of these cannot be supplied. At the same time we have done all that in our judgment was possible to ensure correctness, and proofs have been circulated, as far as possible among “Old Boys” and others interested in the School, but we are well aware that many errors, some of them due to imperfections in the original Register, must remain. We have thought it best, however, to publish without undue delay, as we believe that until there is some substantial foundation in the shape of a published Register, very little can be done in the way of collecting or preserving information.

In order, therefore, to collect and preserve information with regard to the career of “Old Boys,” and to record corrections of the present work, an interleaved copy of the book will be kept at the School, and any information supplied to the Head Master will be duly entered therein.

WE DESIRE to thankfully record our indebtedness to a very large number of “Old Boys” and others to whom we have applied for information, and in particular, though we feel that it is almost invidious to select, we would mention the Rev. R. V. Taylor, Mr. M. Storr Hodson, and Mr. J. Rawlinson Ford, the two former of whom supplied much useful information as to the earlier names, while Mr. Ford has been through the notes and supplied us with a portion of the Addenda et Corrigenda.

The view of the Old School, which forms the frontispiece to the Register, appeared in the Yorkshire Owl for 23rd September, 1896, and is reproduced by the kind permission of the proprietor of that journal. The view of the New School is from a photograph by Mr. R. Stockdale.

IT IS HOPED that at some future time a history of the School, based upon the following sketch, may be compiled. The materials are, unfortunately, scanty, and the Brief History of the School, which appeared in 1822, only shows how difficult it was, even then, to obtain any accurate record of the early history of the School.

J. H. D. MATTHEWS.
VINCENT THOMPSON, Junr.

LEEDS GRAMMAR SCHOOL,
March, 1897.