Newport - Kelly 1889 - Commercial and Private entries- Page 27

Workhouse, Parkhurst, a building of brick, built in 1775, to hold 700 inmates, Rev. James Wentworth Elger B.A. chaplain; Edward Allen Waterworth M.D. medical officer; Nichol Armstrong, master ; Mrs., Eleanor Armstrong, matron ; Thomas Henry Martin, schoolmaster ; Mrs., Mary Martin, schoolmistress ; Miss Ellen Frampton, infants' mistress

RURAL SANITARY AUTHORITY: Clerk, Frederic Stratton, 31 Pyle street, Newport ; Benjamin Theodore Goldstone, 13 Carisbrooke road ; Medical Officer of Health, Joseph Groves D.A., M.B. Glen cottage, Carisbrooke ; Inspector of Nuisances, H. H. Cocker, 23 AIbert street; Newport ; & Anthony Buxton, Carisbrooke

PUBLIC OFFICERS.

Assistant Overseer, G. H. Waterworth, 3 WoIsey terrace, Ryde road

Certifying Factory Surgeon, William Frederic Foster, 5 & 6 High street

Clerk to the County Magistrates, John Wilson Fardell, 21 Quay street

Clerk to the Commissioners of Highways, to the Commissioners of Sewers & to the Commissioners of Taxes, A. Harbottle Estcourt, 98 High street

Clerk of the Peace of the County of the, Isle of Wight, A. S. Estcourt, 98 High street

Collector of General District & Water Rates & Collector of Taxes, Charles Thomas Allee

Coroner for the Isle of Wight, Edward Frederick Blake, 37 Quay street

Deputy Governor of the Isle of Wight, A. Harbottle Estcourt M.A., 98 High street

General Surveyor to the Commissioners of Highways, West Medina district, J. E. Haynes, Carisbrooke

Notary Public, Francis Albert Joyce, 27 Lugley street

Official Receiver in Bankruptcy for Newport & Ryde County Court districts, Samuel Wheeler, Holyrood chambers, Holyrood street

Sheriff's Officer, James Moore, Southsea

Steward of the Isle of Wight, A. HarbottIe Estcourt M.A. 98 High street

Superintendent of Fire Brigade, Charles Osborne, 9 Cocker street

Veterinary Inspector for West Medina, Charles Arthur Good M.R.C.V.S.L., 20 Quay street

ARCHDEACONRY OF THE ISLE OF WIGHT.

Archdeacon, Ven. Henry Haigh M.A

Apparitor, William John Bailey, Lugley street

Registrar, Arthur H. Estcourt M.A

PLACES or WORSHIP

St. Thomas' Church, Ven. Archdeacon Haigh M.A. vicar;

St. John's Church, Rev. Henry Graham Thwaites, vicar

St. Paul's Church, Barton, Rev. William Leggatt Sharpe M.A., vicar

St. John's Mission Room, Clarendon street

St. Thomas of Canterbury, Catholic, Pyle street, Rev. Justin Mooney, priest

Friends' Meeting House, High street; scripture reading,

Baptist (Castlehold), Carisbrooke road

Bible Christian Connexion (Zion), Quay street, Revs, William Blake Lark & Albert E. Brett, ministers

Brethren, Union street, ministers various

Congregational, St. James street, Rev. A. O, Lochore, minister

Primitive Methodist, Pyle street, Rev. J. H. Harradine, minister

Unitarian, High street, Rev. John Dendy B.A.

Wesleyan, Pyle street, Rev. Alexander Hoskings, minister.

Parish Hall, ministers various

Salvation Army Barracks, Quay street

SCHOOL BOARD.

School Board of 7 members was formed December 30th, 1873 Clerk, Frederic Stratton, 31 Pyle street ; Attendance Officer, John Etheridge, Chillerton

Board School (mixed), Barton, build in 1835, at a cost of GBP660 for 150 children; new boys' school built 1886 ; average attendance 112 boys, 89 girls & 101 infants ; Mr, & Mrs., Snelgar, head teachers & Miss Henshaw, mistress

Board School (boys, girls & infants, in three departments), Upper St. James street, built in 1812, originally known as the Lancasterian & afterwards the Royal British Schools; were handed over to the Newport Board in 1875, who thoroughly renovated them & opened them as board schools January, 1876, & a handsome new infant schoolroom has since been added at a cost of about GBP1,200; the school will hold 600 children : average attendance, boys 191, girls 160, infants 130 ; A. Gill Martin, master ; Mrs., Sarah Martin, infants' mistress ; Miss Charlotte Moody, girls' mistress

SCHOOLS.

The Free Grammar School, in Lower St. James street, was founded by subscription in 1614, & endowed by Sir Richard Worsley, Sir Thomas Fleming & others ; the school house possesses interesting historical associations ; in one of the rooms Charles I slept; & in the school-room he met the commissioners sent by Parliament to treat with him, September 18th, 1648. The master teaches 20 free scholars & is allowed to take other day scholars as well as boarders. The present master is Harry Angela Rumbelow

The Blue School, or Girls' Charity School, in Crocker street, was founded by subscription in 1761, for the purpose of clothing & teaching a number of poor girls of Newport & qualifying them to be honest & useful domestic servants. The girls are educated, clothed, boarded & lodged at the expense of the charity ; Miss Laura Joslyn mistress

A large building, known as the Lace Factory, at Broadlands, near the eastern entrance to the town, is converted by Mrs., T. Harvey into a training school for female domestic servants

National School (boys, girls & infants), (St. Thomas') Carisbrooke road, built in 1846, for 700 children ; average attendance, 210 boys & 155 girls & 121 infants ; William King Ediss, master ; Miss Eliza Jane Purchase, mistress ; Miss Annie Westmore, infants' mistress

St. Johns' school (boys, girls, & infants), Trafalgar road, built in 1830, for 150 children, & enlarged for 400 ; average attendance, 78 boys, 85 girls & 71 infants ; Albert Wells, master ; Miss Harriett Horwood, girls' mistress, & Miss Fanny Cassford, infants' mistress.

Catholic school, High street, built in 1840, for 80 children ; average attendance, 20 ; Miss Alice Dawson, mistress.

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