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Charity scholars

has a page about these little blue people but even there we can find no origin story explaining why and when the first such statues were erected. We note that there seems to be a rule that the boy is on the left and the girl on the right, just like the TV breakfast show hosts. When that row blew up the TV studios admitted that the left-hand position has always been seen as the senior spot, due, apparently to how the eye moves when reading.

Christ's Hospital was known as the Bluecoat School but there are no little blue people that we could see in Newgate Street. However we understand there are more statues inside and also in St Bride’s church Fleet Street and in the galleries at the Museum of London.

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Charity scholars

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Blewcoat School SW1 - charity boy

{On a stone plaque below the statue:} The Blewcoat School, built in the year ...

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Charity School - plaque

2023: Lionel Wright  has drawn our attention to an error in this plaque: St A...

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Sir T. Gregory Foster

Sir T. Gregory Foster

First name was Thomas but he did not use it.  The first Provost of University College London, 1904–1929.  Vice-Chancellor of the University of London from 1928 to 1930.

Person, Education, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Inner London Education Authority

Inner London Education Authority

When LCC was replaced with the GLC the body responsible for education became ILEA.  Disliked by Thatcher, ILEA survived a number of attempts to abolish it but succumbed in 1990.  Thereafter the loc...

Group, Education, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Henry Fawcett

Henry Fawcett

Economist, politician and educational reformer. Born Salisbury. Blinded in a shooting accident as a young man. The first blind MP. As Postmaster General (1880-4) he developed the parcel post and in...

Person, Economist, Education, Politics & Administration, Social Welfare

5 memorials
Hirobumi Ito

Hirobumi Ito

Became a student at UCL in 1863. The picture source gives details of his assasination by a Korean nationalist. Picture source gives details of this.

Person, Education, Japan

1 memorial
Holmwood

Holmwood

British History Online 1 gives "The mathematician Charles Babbage (1792-1871) and the novelist Captain Frederick Marryat (1792- 1848) attended a school run by the Revd. Stephen Freeman in a house i...

Building, Education

1 memorial