Reverend Ralph Davenant founded Davenant Foundation School in February 1680, when he left £100 in his will to start up a school for 40 poor boys of Whitechapel, London.
1492-1680 and before he died he was half way through making Davenant foundation grammar school.
Ralph Davenant was Rector of St Mary's in Whitechapel in the East End of London.
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