Early Schooling in Cuckfield.
The founder of the first school in Cuckfield, a Free Grammar School, was Edmund Flower. In his will of 1521 he stated that he had run a free Grammar School for many years. He left an endowment for the school in his will. Thomas Pelham and William Spicer also made endowments for the school. All the school masters in the 1800s also held concurrent church appointments: Thomas Bysshe, Philip Shore, John Willis, John Tattershall, James Ingram, William Hopkins, Joseph Francis Fearon and Thomas Spencer.
Robert Middleton, Vicar, left money in trust with Timothy Burrell, in his will in 1712 to set up a charity school for the poor children of the parish to teach them to read and write.
Morley Schools: Richard Morley was called a schoolmaster of Cuckfield in his will in 1752. William Morley was described as schoolmaster at the baptisms of his sons in 1792 and 1798 and in his will in 1800 when he was 38.
There is no record of an early Sunday School but there is likely to have been one at least when Joseph Francis Fearon became vicar of Cuckfield before the end of the century.
Other known schoolmasters or mistresses at the time were:
Drury Bird
Richard Cook
John Cook
Mary Brown
Mary Wood
Samuel Picknell
Information published by The Sussex Record Society.
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