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| | GENUKI: Wirksworth, Derbyshire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868 |
 | | In the interior are several old monuments of the Gells, Lowes, Hurts, and Wigleys, including an effigy of Anthony Gell, Esq., founder of the grammar school of almshouses, bearing date 1583. |
 | | The free grammar school, founded by Anthony Gell in 1576, situated close to the churchyard, was rebuilt in 1828. |
 | | It has an income from endowment of £160, and is attended by about 110 pupils, of whom 50 are admitted on the foundation, and the rest are subject to moderate quarterly charges for education. |
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