ABSTRACT
Not much can be said here about the histories of individual schools. On the whole, once they had established themselves, they experienced fewer vicissitudes of fortune than had been common in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Much always depended on the skill—and the good luck—of individual heads, and there were some serious casualties like W.S.Grignon of Felsted, one of the original members of the Headmasters' Conference, who quarrelled with one of his assistants and was eventually dismissed by the trustees, despite support given him by other headmasters (1875–6) (Craze 1955:180–91). Another victim of a quarrel with an assistant master, leading to a lawsuit and to bitter wrangles in the school community, was E.M.Young of Sherborne, who finally resigned in 1892 (Gourlay 1951:162–70; Honey 1977:334–5).
