AN EXTRACT FROM THE TRUST DEED 1848
[Note the name of the witness at the end of document]

1 CHARLES PHILIP YORKE Earl of Hardwicke of Wimpole Park
in the County of Cambridge...DO hereby freely and voluntarily...
grant and convey unto the Vicar and Churchwardens of the Parish of
Guilden Morden ALL THOSE premises containing one rood and
bounded on the North West by the Town street on the South East
and South West by the Field belonging to me and on the North East
by the Field belonging to Mary Ann Clark ... And upon trust to
permit the said premises and all buildings thereon erected ... to be
for ever hereafter used as and for a School for the Education of
Children and Adults of the Labouring Manufacturing and other
classes...which said School shall always be in union with and
conducted according to the principles ... of the National Society for
promoting the education of the poor in the principles of the
Established Church And further that the said School shall be open to
the inspection of the Inspectors appointed... the Vicar shall have the
superintendence of the moral and religious instruction of the
Scholars ... the management direction control and government of the
said School and of the funds... thereof and the selection appointment
and dismissal of the Schoolmaster and Schoolmistress and their
Assistants shall be vested in and exercised by a Committee
consisting of the Vicar and of six other persons of whom the
following shall be the first appointed (namely) The Right
Honourable the Earl of Hardwicke, The Master of Catherine Hall,
Cambridge, Montford Strickland, Joseph Westrope, Frederick
Butterfield and Richard Bowman all aforesaid Yeoman... being
members of the Church of England...... IN WITNESS whereof the
said Charles Philip Yorke Earl of Hardwicke hath hereunto affixed
his hand and seal this 3rd day of October in the year of our Lord
1848..

Hardwicke
Robert Merry Vicar  [of Guilden Morden]

SIGNED SEALED and DELIVERED... in the presence of
B. Disraeli, M.P. for Bucks.
 

List of Staff

Head Teachers, Masters and Mistresses

1851 William & Mary Messer
1861 John & Lucy Gossage
1873 Miss Amelia Neath
1879 Miss Hannah Fowler
1883 Miss Frances Bradley
1888 unknown
1890 John Smith
1893 Miss Agnes E. Hall.
1894 Miss E. S. Thompson
1895 Mrs Emily Allen
1904 Robert Allen
1923 John Fazakerley
1925 E. W. Edwards
1930 Miss Grove
1939 Miss K. Pullen (Mrs Kershaw)
1945 Miss Williams
1949 Miss Ivy Hughes
1959 Miss Eleanor Clark
1966 John Longworth
1974 Mrs Malmstrom (Temporary)
1974 Miss Margaret Bennett
1990 Ray Bell (Temporary)
1991 Simon Windmill
1995 Mrs Hilary Williams
1998 Mrs Julie Burden
2002  Mrs Susan Arnold

See  pages on village history for important dates in the School's history