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NOTTINGHAM HIGH SCHOOL, NOTTINGHAMSHIRE – SCHOOL CELEBRATES FOUNDER’S DAY

Nottingham High School and city dignitaries have celebrated Founder’s Day, an annual event to commemorate the founding of the school by Dame Agnes Mellers in 1513.
Founder’s Day, Nottingham’s oldest tradition after the Goose Fair, is held each year at St Mary’s Church in the Lace Market and the Council House and is attended by pupils, staff, and the city’s dignitaries.
The service at St Mary’s began with a procession symbolising the ancient links that the School has with the Crown, the City and the Church. The procession was led by Kevin Fear, Nottingham High School headmaster, who was followed by the Director of Finance and Estates, the School governors and their clerk, clergy, civil dignitaries and the Lord Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire.
This year’s sermon was given by The Reverend Richard Coldicott, Curate of St Margaret’s Church, Aspley, and the collection will be given in equal shares to St Mary’s Church and to the Teenage Cancer Trust in remembrance of the life of a former pupil who died in September 2009.
The event continued at the Council House, where, in accordance with the ancient custom, the governors of the school laid out the sum of 20 shillings to the Lord Mayor and his Clerk, the Vicar of the Church, members of the Parish clergy, and others, with the balance – now represented by the handing over of a single groat – going to a representative of the School, known as the ‘representative scholar’. This year the representative scholar was Matthew Glendening from Year 7.