High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Royal Grammar School (originally "The Free School") is a selective English independent day school for boys in Guildford, Surrey. The school dates its founding to the death of Robert Beckingham in 1509 who left provision in his will to 'make a free scole at the Towne of Guldford'; in 1512 a governing body was set up to form the school. The school moved to the present site in the upper High Street after the granting of a royal charter from King Edward VI in 1552. The school's Old Building, constructed between 1557 and 1586 is home to a rare example of a chained library established on the death of John Parkhurst, Bishop of Norwich, in 1575. Although defined as a "free" school, the first statues of governance approved in 1608 saw the introduction of school fees, at the rate of 4 shillings per annum, along with the school's first admissions test. During the late 19th century the school ran into considerable financial difficulty, which...

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