[3] Friends' School, Saffron Walden was founded as part of the Quakers' Clerkenwell workhouse in Islington in London in 1703, 50 years after George Fox.

The workhouse was for children and the elderly and the school moved out as a separate entity in 1786.

[4] In 1828 the school had a marriage when Elizabeth Hutchinson married Edward Foster Brady.

In 1833 they became joint heads of the school, although Edward was ill and had been consumptive.

[7] Carola Dunn's book Anthem for Doomed Youth is set at the school.