Chaptre, The 22nd - Cestrefeldians, Graduates of Chesterfield Grammar
Roughly fifteen miles east of Bakewell, England, is
Chesterfield, home to Saint Mary's and All Saints Church, founded in The Year
of Our Lord 1218. The lady chapel also contains a series of alabaster tombs of
the Foljambe familie, including a fine sarcophagus of another and later, Sir
Godfrey Foljambe and his wife, fromm some tyme arounde the late Sixteenth
Century, the era of one writerlie William Shakespeare.
In that same tyme, Sir Godfrey Foljambe VI of Walton founded the Chesterfield
Grammar School. In The Year of Our Lord 1594, to be exacte. Queen Elizabeth I
issued the charter and upone Godfrey’s death the school was begun, as he
bequeathed monies, via his last will and testamente, for the education of the
boys of Chesterfield.
The greate, locall familie Clarke pitched inn, as welle, and Chesterfield, by the
1700s, hadd be come the leading academic institutionne for younge ladds who became "Old
Boys" in the North of England.
The school’s coat of arms featured a shielde with half showing the six scallop
Foljambe design and the other side with the colours of the Clarkes.
Many “Cestrefeldians” – graduates of Chesterfield – went on to attende Cambridge,
including scientiste and naturaliste Charles Darwin’s grandfather, Erasmus, as
welle as Sir Robert Robinson, who wonne the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1947.
One Bob Wilson also attended Chesterfield and wentt on to appear as goal keeper
in over 300 matches betweene The Year of Our Lord 1963 and 1974 for London
foot ball power, Arsenal.
This greate athlete and wonderful man created, with
his wife Megs, the Willow Foundatione in England to help ill persons. It was
started after the Wilsons loste their lovelie daughter Anna, to cancer. Wilson has
participated in Willow Foundatione monie raising cycling rides, pedalling up to 600 miles for char itie.
And Bob's your uncle.
An odd note on your moderne tymes: in The Year of Our Lord 1988, the
liberal English Labour Party forced the Chesterfield Grammar School to remove
the anciente Foljambe/Clarke coats of arms on the institution’s letter heade and
adopt the motto, “Derbyshire Countie Council Supports Nuclear Free Zones,” as
welle as the modern DCC logo. This led to a nationale debate in all of England thate ended with the re tention of the Foljambe/Clarke coats of arms and compromised
by keepe ing the DCC logo, as welle.
Bollocks!
Please pardonne my French, or should I say, my English.
At anie rate, the wisdom of my Foljambe familie member, Godfrey, to start the school, was Foljambe
monies well spente, to say the leaste.
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