George Webster green plaque
Kendal, Halton, England, United Kingdom
THE NATIONAL SCHOOL. The School was designed by George Webster and was built and run by public subscription. It opened to boys in 1819 for their "education in Religious Knowledge and useful learning". It was the first public day school in Kendal, incorporated with the National Society for promoting
"the education of the poor in the principles of the Established Church". Matthew Pyper of Whitehaven endowed the school with £2000. He died in 1821 and, at his wish, was interred in a vault near the c
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