[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.

However the new building was damp and ill suited to teaching and learning.

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

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