The Schoolmasters and Scholars of Gloucester 1500 – 1800: David Evans: Online

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The Talk

This illustrated talk will outline the many different types of schools that existed in Gloucester before the advent of 19th century state education. It will provide details of the schools which played a key role in the lives of Gloucester families in this period and what it was like to teach or study in them. A special focus will be to explore the range of written sources that exist to throw (a little) light on how the schools operated, the careers of the various schoolmasters and the individuals known to have been educated in the city in the pre-industrial period. Three of the schools have continued to our own time – the Crypt, King’s and Sir Thomas Rich’s – but also included in the talk will be the role of petty schools, academies for Dissenters, private schools for girls, charity schools and the Sunday Schools of the 18th century. The talk will be of interest to anyone who had family members in Gloucester in the early modern period and will help those with a passion for the heritage and social history of our city to deepen their knowledge.

The Speaker

David is the author of “The Ancient Schools of Gloucester” published by the Choir Press in 2022.  Copies of his book are available from the Family History Centre shop.  David read History at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, in the late 1970s, specialising in the medieval and early modern periods.  He came to Gloucester in 1986 as Head of History at the King’s School, where he inherited a cardboard box full of old photographs of the school in previous generations.  From this, a passion for the history of the school grew to the point in 2006 when he was able to publish his first book, “The King’s School Gloucester: A Photographic History”.  As well as becoming the Deputy Head at King’s for two decades, David took on the enjoyable task of organising the school archives and museum.  In retirement, he became a guide at Gloucester Cathedral and a trustee at Discover DeCrypt and the adjacent old Crypt Schoolroom.  David has been involved in the annual Heritage Open Days for more than ten years and in 2021 he was a speaker at the Gloucester History Festival, where he gave a presentation on the Schools of Tudor Gloucester.

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