Joseph Lancaster
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Joseph Lancaster was an English Quaker and public education innovator. He developed, and propagated on the grounds both of economy and efficacy, a monitorial system of primary education. In the first
Joseph Lancaster, by John Hazlitt, c. 1818
Lancaster's name on the Reformers Monument, Kensal Green Cemetery
The Lancasterian School in Birmingham, founded in 1809
Lancasterian School at Moor Top, Gildersome, West Yorkshire, founded in 1813 and rebuilt later in the 19th century
The British and Foreign School Society was founded in the early 19th century to support free and non-denominational British Schools in England and Wales. These schools competed with the National schoo
Joseph Lancaster
…George Penney, John Pickton, John Veevers, John Thomas Crossley. It was Pickton who replaced Lancaster at Borough Road. The Society renamed itself the British and Foreign School Society (BFSS), a contrast with the Anglican National School System. Lancaster, by then a bankrupt, resented the new name. He still travelled the United Kingdom…
British Schools Museum, Hitchin