CHICHESTER: Bishop Otter's College

<span class="wrapper"><p>Documents in other West Sussex Record Office collections</p> <p>Cap.V/3/1 Minute Book, 1850-1867. (224 ff.) ff.1-47, minutes of the quarterly and other meetings of the "Committee of the Diocesan Training School for Masters", Dec. 1950. (held for the first time in the "New Committee Room of Bishop Otter's College") - Feb. 1867</p> <p>Cap.V/4/1 Account Book, 1864-1867. See V/4/2 for details. (361 ff.) pp.i-xxii, index; pp.1-4, general account (from 1863); pp.17-20, "Subscriptions, Donations from Individuals"; pp.33-34, grants from Diocesan Board; p.41, student's fees; pp.59-60, petty cash; pp.61-64, salaries of teachers; pp.83-84, books, apparatus and stationery; pp.103-105, printing, postage and office charges; pp.123-128, board; pp.147-148, account with Messrs. Gruggen and Comper; pp.161-162, servants' wages; pp.185-185, fuel and lights; pp.199-202, furniture and buildings; pp.219-221, rent, rates, taxes, insurance; pp.241-242, garden; pp.267-268, payments to students; pp.275-276, interest; pp.293-308, general accounts, 1846-1866; pp.309-310, financial secretary's winding-up account, 1867; pp.321-322, memoranda of income and expenditure (from 1851); pp.323-324, general account, 1863; pp.327-330 general account. 1862-1864; pp.331-334, "Estimated position of the college" 1863 and 1962</p> <p>Cap.V/4/2 Account Book, 1863-1868. (60ff.) ff.1-14, cash book, with cross-references to V/4/1. Jan. 1864 - May 1868. Balance sheets for 1864 to 1866 are loose in this volume</p> <p>Cap.V/4/3 Account with C. Halsted and Sons [ironmongers], Jan. 1858 - Mar. 1867 (18 ff.)</p> <p>Cap.V/5/1 Bank books, Mar. 1854 - Apr. 1866 (54 ff.) [The college banked with Messrs. Gruggen and Comper, later Gruggen, Dendy, Halsted and Comper, of Chichester.]</p> <p>Cap.V/5/2 Bank book Apr. 1866 - May 1868. (28 ff.)</p> <p>Cap.V/6 Household bills and receipts, 1860-1867. (200 items.)</p> <p>Cap.V/7/1 Report of Committee of Bishop Otter's College, 9 Aug. 1866, and abstract of accounts. This describes the circumstances which led up to the liquidation. (12 pp.)</p> <p>Cap.V/7/2 Letters, appeals, subscription lists and other papers, 1850-1867, relating to the College in particular to the years immediately preceding liquidation. This includes an "Inventory and Valuation of Fixtures" in the College, Mar. 1867. (48 items.)</p> <p>Cap.V/7/3 Circulars from the Committee of Council on Education, Privy Council Office, London, mostly relating to Queen's Scholars of the College, the College curriculum and students' teaching practice, Nov. 1848 - Jan. 1865. (32 items).</p> <p>Cap.V/7/4 College "Schoolmaster's Certificate" to Henry Lufkin Skeet (1853) and Henry Philip Ginn of Chelmsford, Essex (1855), and one un-used certificate. (3 items.)</p> <p>Goodwood Ms. 1611, ff.541,551,602 and Goodwood Ms. 1612,ff.393,444 Letters from Henry Foster concerning the founding of the College</p></span>

E/35J/6/1 was deposited by the Public Record Office, May 1965.

The College was opened in 1850 to train male teachers, but the shortage of students caused it to be closed from 1868 to 1873 when it became a women's training college.

The original title of Bishop Otter's College was used when the College was a Diocesan Training School and should not be confused with its present title of Bishop Otter College.

See also T.G. Willis, Records of Chichester, pp.274-276