The CHARTERHOUSE SCHOOL rapidly developed into one of the chief public schools of England, and now numbers over 500 boys besides 60 foundation scholars. In 1872 it was transferred to Godalming, in Surrey. Among its former scholars ('Carthusians') were Lovelace, Crashaw, Isaac Barrow, Roger Williams (founder of Rhode Island), Steele, Addison, John Wesley, Blackstone, Lord Ellenborough, Grote, Thirlwall, Havelock, Lovell Beddoes, John Leech, and Thackeray. 'The Newcomes' of the last describes the Charterhouse under the name of 'Greyfriars'; Colonel Newcome is represented as both an ex-pupil of the school and a poor brother, a coincidence that has almost never occurred in fact. In other works Thackeray is less complimentary to 'Slaughterhouse.' After the removal of the Charterhouse School its site, mainly around the Great Cloister, was purchased by the Merchant Taylors' School, a day-school with 600 boys, founded in 1561 in Suffolk Lane, Upper Thames Street. Edmund Spenser, Samuel Richardson, Richard Highmore, and Lord Clive were educated at this school. The present school-hall was built in 1872 on the site of the old Foundation Scholars' House.
