Mercers' School

The Mercers' School was a private school in the City of London, England, with a history going back to at least 1542, which closed in 1959.

After the disestablishment of the Hospital of St Thomas of Acon in 1538, the hospital's land was bought by the Mercers' Company (Worshipful Company of Mercers), and the school was founded in 1542 under a deed of covenant with King Henry VIII. It is possible that the school continued one that had been established in the hospital by Act of Parliament in 1447, and which may have dated back to the foundation of the hospital in 1190. The school existed in several locations in the City of London: Cheapside, Old Jewry, and College Hill (Dowgate); it moved to Barnard's Inn, a site on the south side of Holborn in 1894.

Alumni

Those educated at the school include:

• Barnes, Sir Thomas James (1888–1964)
• Boevey, James (1622–96)
• Cheyney, Peter Southouse (1896–1951)
• D'Aeth, Frederic George (1875–1940)
• Darlington, Cyril Dean (1903–81)
• Ellis, Sir Henry (1777–1869)
• Gilbert, Sir Alfred (1854–1934)
• Gomme, Arthur Allan (1882–1955)
• Kennedy, Douglas Neil (1892–1988)
• Lloyd Webber, William

Sources

• "Mercers' School", The Times, 4 December 1933, p. 9.
• "Death of a School", The Times, 24 March 1958, p. 5.

See also www.oldmercersclub.org.uk/schoolhistory.htm