| 词条 | John Freeston |
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John Freeston (1512[1] – 1594) was a barrister from Altofts, West Yorkshire, admitted in 1544 to Gray's Inn in London. Possibly inspired by Walter Midway, Freeston posthumously left £500 to fund a school in Normanton, with a scholarship program in place to allow students from Normanton to gain a place at Emmanuel College, Cambridge (the scholarship was later transferred to Sidney Sussex College in 1607). The will allowed for £25 of this funding to go to the school each year, enough to pay for its construction and its school master's salary. The school did not stay open long enough to use up this funding, however, and an investigation in 1890 revealed it had inflated to £400 per annum. It was decided that the town would use this funding to set up a secondary school, now the Freeston Academy. See also
References1. ^Normanton Town Council {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081218112705/http://www.normantontowncouncil.co.uk/5.html |date=2008-12-18 }} {{refimprove|date=October 2014}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Freeston, John}}{{England-bio-stub}} 8 : Founders of English schools and colleges|English philanthropists|Members of Gray's Inn|1512 births|1594 deaths|16th-century English people|People of the Tudor period|People from Normanton, West Yorkshire |
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