Wordsworth studied at this small school in Hawkshead from 1779, when he moved to the village after his mother's death, until 1787, when he left to attend St. John's College at Cambridge University. Established in 1585, the school would have held many boys at a time going through different grades of schooling. The room was not always quiet: apparently, cock fights were sometimes staged inside the main room. It seems to have been common practice for boys to carve their names into their desks, and Wordsworth was no exception.
One of the school's pupils, Joshua King, later became professor of mathematics and president of Queen's College, Cambridge, from 1832 until 1857 . . .
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