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Monday, 16 January 2012

Plaque Commemorating Former Pupils of Dr Morgan School in Bridgwater.


Dr Morgan was a physician who lived in the early days of the eighteenth century in the town of Bridgwater, Somerset, England. In his Will he entrusted in the people of Bridgwater to set up a charity school to educate the local boys. It must not be forgotten that the Dr Morgan's foundation absorbed the old King James the First Grammar School and that we may at once push back the birth of this school by another hundred years.

Dr Morgan's survived for exactly 250 years. It finally closed (and was replaced by Haygrove Comprehensive School) in 1973. The buildings, which made up the school from 1937 onwards, are still in use although many more have been added since.
The following items provide a very small insight to the school.
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Transcription of top plague:


TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN LOVING
MEMORY O F THE OLD BOYS OF THIS
SCHOOL WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVE
DURING THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1919

ARNOLD, H. J.
BARNARD, J.E
BARTON, H.R.
BEVAN, J.
BISHOP, G. C. W.
BOND, C. F.
BOWERING, A. E.
BOYS, W.
BURNELL, R.A.
CARY, H.W.
CHARD, C.N.
CHARD, F.
CHURCHILL, T.D.
COLES, A.F.
CROCOMBE, W.C.
DAVEY, J.B.
DOYLE, W.G.
DYKE, B.
EDGAR, J.M.
FOLEY, G.R.
FRY, A.H.
FRY, C.V.C.
GADD, A.G.
GOODLAND, L.M.
GUY, H.
HAGON, C.D.
HELPS, F.B.
HENDERSON, C.
HILL, C.M.
HITCHCOCK, H.W.
HOUSE, S.H.
JARVIS, L.C.
JEFFREYS, C.W.
MAJOR, A.O.
MAJOR, C.W.
NOVAK, G.V.
PLAYER, L.R.
RIDGE, W. J.
SEAR, V. V.
SELWAY, M.J.
SEWARD, H.
SHRIMPTON, R.K.
SMITH, S.A.G.
STRADLING, C.
SWEET, B.C.
SYMONS, R.C.
TANNER, H.J.
TROTMAN, L.B.
WEDLAKE, E.R.
WILKINSON, B.M.
WILLIAMS, T.D.
WINSBORROW, W.L.M.
WYATT, A.R.


 

3 comments:

  1. Good school with excellent faculty & infrastructure.
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  2. GERALD VICTOR NOVAK IS MENTIONED ON THE MEMORIAL PLAQUE OF DR MORGANS SCHOOL. I DID NOT KNOW HE WENT TO THAT SCHOOL BUT HIS UNCLE BY MARRIAGE, HERBERT WILLIAM FARRANCE, DID SO THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN THROUGH HIS INFLUENCE. GERALD, A MUSICIAN, JOINED THE RAMC ON THE OUTBREAK OF WAR AND HE DIED AT A HOSPITAL IN DARS ES SALAAM AFTER GOING THROUGH THE WHOLE WAR AND DYING IN 1918 OF THE INFLUENZA OUTBREAK.

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  3. Thank you for that information. So sad to think he survived the horrors of WWI only to die of flu. Very sad indeed.

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