Camberwell Collegiate School

[3] The council of King's College offered an annual prize for the school's best pupil.

[4] The Collegiate School was situated on a two-acre site laid out as a pleasure ground and flower gardens,[5] and housed in a purpose-built building constructed the previous year to the designs of Henry Roberts, who had also designed the Fishmongers' Hall.

[3] Built at a cost of about £3,600[2] in white brick with stone dressings,[1] and incorporating some aspects of Tudor style,[3] it had a frontage of 300 feet,[1] and was notable for the cloister which formed the centre of its entrance front.

[3] In 1834 John Allen Giles was appointed to the headmastership but on 24 November 1836 was elected headmaster of the City of London School.

[6][7] The headmaster in 1840 was Rev Joseph Sumnner Brockhurst,[8] a graduate of St John's College, Cambridge whose poem Venice had won the Chancellor's Gold Medal in 1826.