Origins

In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries four successful members of the Company left bequests to provide schools for the young and, in some cases, almshouses for the old and appointed the Company as Trustee. It was these bequests that led to the foundation of the present nine Haberdasher Schools.

1594

Thomas Aldersey

Aldersey Church of England Primary School at Bunbury, Cheshire.

1614

William Jones

Monmouth School, Haberdashers’ Monmouth School for Girls and Haberdashers’ Agincourt School at Monmouth, Monmouthshire.

1656

William Adams

Adams’ Grammar School at Newport, Shropshire.

1690

Robert Aske

Haberdashers' Aske’s School and Haberdashers' Aske’s School for Girls at Elstree, Hertfordshire and Haberdashers’ Aske’s Hatcham College, New Cross, London.