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St JOHN'S NATIONAL SCHOOL, DEVONPORT

FOURTH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS

When the School celebrated its fourth anniversary on Saturday August 21st 1813 it was known as the Plymouth Dock Royal Lancastrian School and Mr Henry Johns was its secretary.

  

At 11am on that day some 250 boys assembled at the School premises and marched to St Aubyn's Chapel, as it then was, with the master and most of the subscribers to the school at their head.  There, during Divine Service, they were preached 'an excellent sermon' by their president, the Reverend Jonathan Williams.

 

Afterwards the subscribers met in the School to receive the annual report and to elect the committe and officers for the ensuing year.  Nearly fifty of them then proceeded to the King's Arms to 'partake of a sumptuous entertainment', following which there were speeches from the Reverend Williams and, by deputy, from the secretary, Mr Henry Johns.   Many loyal songs were sung during the entertainment.

 

There is no explanation as to why a school attached to St John's Church should have gone to St Aubyn's Chapel for this occasion.

 

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