On the 18th of July 1542 it was surrendered to Henry VIII., and its possessions granted to Robert Dacres on condition of maintaining the grammar school and paying the master £10 a year, the same salary as the headmasters of Winchester and Eton, and maintaining the almshouse.
In that year the General Medical Council communicated to the Board of Education a memorial on the subject from the Headmasters' Conference.
Conferences were held by the consultative committee of the Board of Education in 1903, with representatives of the universities, the Headmasters' Conference, the Association of Head-Masters, the Association of Head-Mistresses, the College of Preceptors, the Private Schools' Association, and with representatives of professional bodies.
Getting £ 5,500, he says, would have headmasters " dancing with joy " .
In my thirty years in the school I have served under three of the school's four headmasters - 75% .