Note 74 — Chapter VIII

This was written in the year 1869. Eight years later—seventy-four years after the opening of Hill Top, and fifty years after the opening of Bruce Castle—the school passed out of the hands of any member of Sir Rowland Hill’s family. In justice to the present head-master, it should be stated that in the fifty-eight years that have elapsed since the publication of “Public Education,” great changes have been made in the system of government of the school.