
![]() During the second half of the 19th century, the most prominent and influential secondary high school for boys in Kingston, and indeed Jamaica, was one that most Jamaicans have never heard of: even academic works on the history of Jamaican education do not mention it. This is, perhaps, not really surprising, since, Nevertheless, the Collegiate School educated a majority of the men, of all colours, who became prominent in Jamaican life well into the first half ![]() | So far the latest reference I have found to a former pupil of the Collegiate School is to Edward Thom Reed who died in 1968 at the age of 94. Daily Gleaner, June 6, 1968 ![]() Church Street, Kingston, in the 1830s; the Collegiate School was located on Church Street, from the 1850s to the 1880s. I think that one of the substantial buildings on the left-hand side in this picture may have been the original Collegiate building. However, I have had no luck so far in finding information about the history of the Collegiate Schoolroom/Hall, or about its appearance. And certainly no other possible pictures! |

The Editor of the Colonial Standard was inspired to In spite of Mr Nathaniel Melhado's continental If Mr Meyers wishes to know what we mean by a | The only major school in Kingston which provided secondary education for boys in the 1850s was Wolmer's, which had apparently given up the teaching of Greek and Latin as irrelevant to local students. Wolmer's became almost entirely an elementary school from 1867, until the reorganisation by the Schools' Commission in the 1890s. Until the Jamaica High School was moved from Walton Pen in St Ann into Kingston in the 1880s, St George's, where the pupils were mostly Roman Catholic, and the Collegiate School, founded in 1853, were the only schools offering a secondary and classical education for boys in the city. Sources: History
of the Catholic Church in Jamaica, The
Legacy of a Goldsmith: A History of Wolmer's Schools 1729-2003, |



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