Download or read book A History of Sidcot School written by Francis Arnold Knight and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-01-21 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A History of Sidcot School: A Hundred Years of West Country Quaker Education 1808 1908 A brief account of Friends' schools and schoolmasters in Bristol, in early days, seems necessary by way of introduction to the History of Sidcot School, since there can be little doubt that it was the keen and practical interest taken in Educa tion by Bristol Friends which led to that movement in the Western Quarterly Meetings which resulted in the establish ment by William Jenkins of a school for boys at Sidcot, two hundred and nine years ago. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.