Mary Box

Mary Box born Mary Allen (died 1679) was the person who created The Henry Box School after her husband died after creating the school building.

Henry and Mary Box had seven children but only Ralph and Alice outlived their father.

He was noted for being fined, and even briefly arrested, for refusing to serve as master of the Worshipful Company of Grocers, as a Sheriff of London and as an alderman of Bridge Within ward.

[3] Mary Box completed the project using money left in his will.

[2] In honour of the school's foundation, Oriel College, Oxford (of which Henry Box had been a student) and the Worshipful Company of Grocers (of which Henry Box had refused to be the elected Master) both supplied four governors.