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284 OPEN COUNCIL,
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facilities afforded to Mmthat a gentleman going out to India , under civil appointment , took a fancy , to the youth lost , and all engage siht of d him him to bnt accompany it has since him
in his service . In India his family g , into been a ascertained small business that b on y care his and own attention account , he extending put some it money graduall together y , until , got ,
after and the a series master of years of immense , he became wealth a merchant , thus _^ proving trading in extensivel his own y person to China the , self culture
his bene During existence fits of all education until this time the and year his famil 1807 y when in _. Ireland a gentleman remaine of d in this total countrv ignorance named of
having Mr a native . Carroll returned of , being the from county in India London Clare a , short met , , Mr time Mr . Leamy . Leamy before questioned . at Finding the house him Mr of respecting . Carroll a ascertained friend to , his he be
former friends and relativesand thus his return to England was . The grandson of the gentleman , to whom and Mr . of Leamy ' s hastened father had to claim been
wealth herdsman acquaintance merchant visited with London the of ci India -devant in the ; and humble year to 1809 him companion , we are indebted of course his . father for , the but personal now the
many descri then resided ption inquiries y of in this a for small benevolent his famil house y man in and the , former who nei received hborhood friends him of of Maryport most Portland warml . S Mr quare y and . Leamy ; with he g
was a man of mildunobtrusive mannersmost agreeable in conversation , and evidently possessed , of referred a cultivated to it in mind , the ; he never of talked this gentleman boastingly on of
his wealthand but once presence , which shi occasion , to he China received when a letter he merel announcing said " Thank the total Grod loss ! I of have one enoug of his h
he left ps was yet trading . ordered " About to Madeira the year , 1810 where , Mr he . died Leamy y unmarried ' s health . became delicate , and
residue throug In his h of intemperance will his wealth he left about and several , neg thirteen lect large have thousand sums been of all pounds money squandered , to he his bequeathed famil and y lost , for which ; the the
erection of a Free School , for all classes of children , to be situated in the city For of a Limerick number . of years this money the remained of in _thetfounder Chancery ; was but in the leted year
1846 the handsome edifice , bearing name , comp , cellor and the , and school subject organized to a committee under the of direction gentleman and residing rules in of or the near Lord Limerick Chan- .
There , are two mastersa Protestant and a Roman Catholic , who instruct the children of their respective , their denominations secular studies at a which given hour comprise every all day the in
branches their reli h of gious mensuration a liberal duties Eng : in al lish gebra education , geometry , reading , and , book writing , -keep , history ing , the , grammar efforts of ,
the the the geograp masters class school y of , ever g are irls since conj with ointl its whom , opening y exercised she in was 1846 . engaged The , kindl schoolmistress y when examined we entered , exhibited who for us has the in been history s a chool at - and their lies to her numerous questions very
room satisfactory , specimen prompt of rep the sound practical nature of the instructions they neatly received executed . "We . also The saw books some emp of loyed their are writing those published copies , which by the were National very
Board The of Education number . of boys and girls availing themselves of this free school education since average is its about ening one hundred is most . polite The and master oblig , ing Mr . in Hosford giving , all resident information in the
of respecting the middle the and school op hi and her , classes its workings side by ; side there with we those saw the of poorer children parents of those , to g
trust whom that the advantages such of edifices such an will institution ere long are enli trul ghten y invaluable and embellish , and our we many
native land . Maby Hathaway ,
284 Open Council,
284 OPEN COUNCIL ,
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1858, page 284, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061858/page/68/
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