Certainly I would exclude children of clergy, as well as nurses, teachers and other generally underpaid professionals as well, of course, those who have fallen on hard times through any number of reasons including loss of a spouse or partner, or parental sickness and disability. It is only meant as a rule of thumb but is, I think, borne out by my own experience as well as by yours. We did have some children of OBs but relatively few, and certainly far, far fewer than you would expect to find at other Public Schools.Katharine wrote: ↑Tue Oct 20, 2020 1:59 pmSome of us are the children of Old Blues. There weren’t many second generation Blues that I knew of at Hertford but the majority of us were daughters of the vicarage/manse. I think the clergy children are exempt from your generalisation, certainly stipends then were very small. In my last year my parents paid £120 towards my fees, and expected to pay at least as much to my grant. They were asked to contribute just £6 a yearloringa wrote: ↑Mon Oct 19, 2020 9:06 pm I strongly subscribe to the view that Old Blues go to Christ's Hospital so their children won't need to. The excellent education I received enables me to choose how to educate my daughter; this doesn't apply to everybody of course, especially the non-foundationers, some of whom are on this forum (and their parents) but it seems to me a fair rule of thumb.
For David - non-foundationers were the children of members of staff who, presumably, were not considered to be part of the foundation but whose access to schooling was dependent upon their parent's or parents' employment.