NOTES AND REFERENCES
- Among recent studies are Bishop, A. S. 1971 . The Rise of a Central Authority for English Education , Cambridge : Alexander, J. L. . (1977) Lord John Russell and the origins of the Committee of Council on Education, in: Historical Journal;, 20, pp. 395‐415. This latter work stresses the influence of the British Society on the formation of Lord John Russell's views.
- With regard to teacher training, for example, Hurt, John . 1971 . Education in Evolution 32 London has written: “The project of building a normal school can be dismissed briefly.”
- Hansard, 3rd Series, Vol. XXVII, 1835, cols 1320 and 1322.
- Minute book of the Committee of Council at the Public Record Office, Ed. 9/1, entry for 13th April and also printed in Papers on Education for 1839. Henceforth the manuscript Minutes will be referred to as Minute Book.
- Smith , Frank . 1923 . The Life and Work of Sir James Kay‐Shuttleworth Vol. 48 , 50 – 68 . London
- Despite this help, Stow lacked the funds to continue the enterprise on his own and early in 1842 the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland took over responsibility for it. When the first Scottish school inspector was to be appointed, Lord Lansdowne apparently wanted David Stow, but the latter was unwilling to accept a paid appointment and believed that his health would be unequal to the travelling involved. Ball, Nancy (1963) Her Majesty's Inspectorate 1839‐49, p. 171 (University of Birmingham Institute of Education, Educational Monographs, no. 6).
- Hansard . 1964 . “ Kay Shuttleworth later suggests that the boarders were intended to be pauper children ” . In The autobiography of Sir James Kay Shuttleworth , 3rd Series, Vol. XLVII, 1839, cols 1378‐1379 Edited by: Bloomfield , B. C. 60 – 61 . University of London Institute of Education .
- Hansard, 3rd Series, Vol. XLVIII, 1839, col. 656.
- Minute Book, entries for 20th April and 15th May 1839.
- Kay to Russell, in Russell papers, PRO.30/22.3C, p. 314
- Hansard, 3rd Series, Vol. XLVIII, 1839, cols 681 and 793.
- Bloomfield , B.C. , ed. op. cit 62
- Bloomfield , B.C. , ed. op. cit 67 In his autobiography, Kay declared of the foundation of Battersea: “whatever jealousy and suspicion attended its commencement, as it received no aid from Government, had no official sanction, and was, in fact, established without any even private official concurrence there was no opportunity for any Parliamentary attack nor for much private criticism.”
- Horn , Pamela . 1978 . Education in Rural England 1800‐1914 47 – 49 . Dublin
- Minute Book, entry for 20th April 1839.
- Minute Book, entry for 27th November 1840.
- Minutes of the Committee of Council on Education for 1840‐41 Vol. XX , 1841 23
- Ball , Nancy . op. cit , 238
- Neither of these men appears subsequently to have entered the inspectorate.
- Minute Book entry for 19th August 1839. On 12th August, Lord John Russell had himself expressed opposition to H.M.Is “enforcing regulations & still less ... enforcing improvements ... The inspectors should merely inspect & report the facts. Opinion must do the rest: authority never will.” Russell papers, PRO.30/22/3C, p. 401
- Quoted in Hurt, John . op. cit 40 Grier, R. M. (1889) John Allen, Vicar of Frees and Archdeacon of Salop (London) suggests that the Rev. Thomas Bonney, headmaster of Rugeley grammar school, had been approached first to take up the post for church schools but had declined on the grounds of ill health. No mention is made of this in the Minute Book. Greer also points out (pp. 80‐88) that a preliminary interview was held on 23rd November 1839, six days before the formal appointment was made.
- Minute Book, entry for 29th November 1839.
- Minute Book, entry for 9th November 1840.
- Returns relative to the appointment of inspectors of schools for Scotland 10 Minutes of the Committee of Council on Education for 1840‐41
- Minute Book, entry for 30th May 1840. The Hon. and Rev. Baptist Noel was minister of St John's Chapel, Bedford Row, London from 1827 to 1848. In 1849 he resigned from the Church of England to become a Baptist minister.
- Marquis of Lansdowne to Lord John Russell, May 1839, in Russell papers, PRO. 30/22/3C, p. 247
- Minutes of the Committee of Council on Education for 1840‐41, p. 72
- Minute Book, entries for 4th January and 6th August 1840.
- Johnson , Richard . 1970 . Educational policy and social control in early Victorian England . Past and Present , November : 104 – 107 .
- Minutes of the Committee of Council on Education for 1846 , XLV 1847 5 – 6 .
- Minute Book, entry for 27th November 1840.
- Minute Book, entry for 24th September 1839 Vol. XL , 1840 Also published in Minutes of the Committee of Council for 1840, .
- Quoted in Ball, Nancy . op. cit 33
- Sturt , Mary . 1967 . The Education of the People 96 London
- Ball , Nancy . op. cit 37 329 On 31st May 1839, for example, the Bishop of Durham wrote to Lord John Russell suggesting a conference on Education “at which the Bishop of Norwich and myself may assist”. PRO.30/22/3C
- Minute Book, entry for 9th November 1840.
- Lansdowne to Russell in Russell Papers, PRO.30/22/30D, p. 161
- Henry Moseley was Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy at King's College London The Minute Book also listed “The Revd. Andrew Sayers‐‐The Revd. Dr. Rees‐‐and others.”
- Minute Book, entry for 5th February 1841 and Ball, Nancy . op. cit 50 – 51 .
- Bloomfield , B.C. , ed. op. cit 62
- Privy Council Out Letter Book at Public Record Office, P.C.7/6, letter from the Lord President to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, 8th August 1840 (pp. 66‐67). On 6th August, the Committee had agreed to appoint a legal adviser to deal with conveyancing matters and similar issues. In the following month W. G. Lumley, a barrister and from 1839, the assistant secretary of the Poor Law Commission, was appointed to the position. He was paid £200 for his Education Department work. (Privy Council Out Letter Book, PC.7/6,19th October 1841, p. 163.)
- Smith , Adam . 1910 . The Wealth of Nations , Vol. 2 , 266 London : Everyman's Library .