Qualla: Ackworth School https://qualla.com/ackworth-school en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:24 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Ackworth School https://qualla.com/ackworth-school Ackworth School: Introduction https://qualla.com/ackworth-school/ The buildings were not built for a school. Before John Fothergill bought them in 1779 to start a Quaker boarding school, they had housed Thomas Coram's foundling hospital - one of the eighteenth century's experiments in caring for abandoned children. The hospital had failed financially and the property went on the market. Fothergill, a London physician and a Quaker, saw the chance to do something the Religious Society of Friends had been talking about for years: open a serious boarding school for Quaker children, boys and girls together, away from the corruptions of the city.

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/x/1/ackworth-school-wp/gcx1-ackworth-school-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Ackworth School: The Quaker Founders Behind the Houses https://qualla.com/ackworth-school/ The four houses pupils are sorted into today are named after the people the school's founders looked up to. Fothergill is the founder himself. The other three are some of the most consequential Quakers in early American and Atlantic history. William Penn founded Pennsylvania as a...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/x/1/ackworth-school-wp/gcx1-ackworth-school-silence-before-meals.mp3 0:06 3 full Ackworth School: An All-Steinway School https://qualla.com/ackworth-school/ Music has always been part of Ackworth, and in 1995 a purpose-built music facility opened on the site of a former boarding house. The recital hall seats 180. There are 14 practice rooms, 2 classrooms, a music library, and a recording studio. In January 2019, Ackworth became the f...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/x/1/ackworth-school-wp/gcx1-ackworth-school-an-all-steinway-school.mp3 0:06 4 full Ackworth School: Old Scholars https://qualla.com/ackworth-school/ Two hundred and forty-six years of alumni - called Ackworth Old Scholars - have left tracks in places you would not expect. John Bright, the great Victorian Liberal orator and free-trade campaigner, was here. So was James Wilson, who founded The Economist in 1843. So was Basil Bu...

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