Robert Smith, M.D., founded, in 1725, a school at Blackdown for the education of thirteen boys of Broadwinsor and Burstock. He endowed it with lands in the tithing of Childhay. Among the objects of the founder was the teaching of Hebrew, Greek, and Latin, an ambitious curriculum in a rural locality where the pure mother tongue and the Three R’s are more obviously useful.
Blackdown School, Broadwinsor, Dorset 1867
March 23, 2008 at 4:00 am (Location)
Tags: Blackdown, Broadwindsor, Broadwinsor, Burstock, Dorset, Thorncombe
