Palgrave Academy was opened on July 25th of 1174 by Rochemont Barbauld and his wife Anna Laetitia Barbauld. Palgrave is located in the Suffolk District of England. The school for boys was very successful during the time that the Barbaulds were running it. Records show that 130 boys passed through the halls during their tenure. Eight boys were enrolled when the school opened and 40 were enrolled when the Barbaulds left in 1785. Palgrave was very successful and well known; boys from as far as New York and the West Indies attended. The academy innovated the former model by replacing the strict discipline popular at schools like Elton College with a system of fines and trials ran by and for the pupils. The school also focused on more practical subjects like science and modern language. It was at Palgrave that Anna Barbauld wrote her Lessons for Children and Hymns in Prose for Children.
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