Pupil database
Introduction
This database is drawn from several sources, each containing its own selection of data. Thomas Cox’s book1 and the Admission cards were transcribed by Rose Taylor, Andrew Kafel and Vernon Brearley. The, rather shorter, class lists and Education Board registers were transcribed by John Hudson.
The sources
- Thomas Cox's history of the school (Cox) mentions many former pupils of the school but not normally with significant details about them.
- The Class lists from 1887 to 1906 [L] provide the names of the masters and of the pupils in each class along with the academic successes of former pupils.
- The Education Board registers from 1901 to 1925 [R] give full details of each pupil’s attendance, former and later education, parent or guardian and source of funding — but do not contain all the pupils mentioned in the Class lists for 1901–1906; perhaps private pupils were not registered?
- The Class lists from 1924 to 1939 [L] are incomplete but list much the same information as the earlier Class lists along with details of pupils’ performance in individual subjects.
- The Admission cards from the 1930s onwards [C] provide basic but, in some cases, incomplete information on most pupils who attended in the last half century of the school’s existence.
- The Register from 1945 [R] has not been transcribed but used to check and fill out data missing from the Admission cards.
- The Class lists from 1947 to 1984 [L] are also incomplete and there are no plans to transcribe them in the near future because there is less information in them than in any of the earlier Class lists and the existence of both the Admissions cards and the Registers for this period suggests that they will contribute relatively little — but they are available for consultation.
- The Register from 1973 [R] has not been transcribed but will be used in the same way as the Register from 1945.
- The Rolls of Honour [B] have been used to fill out some information not available in the Class lists or Admission cards.
- The Heathen [H], Obituaries [O] and entries on the Website/Wikipedia [W] have been used to fill out information not available in the other sources.
Information requests
Members of HOBA may request the basic information contained in the database from the Webmaster; more detailed information, where available, can also be provided as time is available to officers to consult the original sources.
Non-members may request similar information but will be asked to make a minimum contribution of £10 towards the charitable work of the Association.
1 Thomas Cox A popular history of the Grammar School of Queen Elizabeth, at Heath, near Halifax Halifax: F King 1879