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    Default Liverpool Institute for Boys (LIPA)

    SIR Paul McCartney spoke of his pride and emotion on returning to Liverpool for Lipa’s graduation. Read

    The Liverpool Institute for Boys was an all-boys grammar school. The school had its origins in 1825 but occupied different premises while the money was found to build a dedicated building.

    The Institute was first known as the Liverpool Mechanics' School of Arts. In 1832 the name was shortened to the Liverpool Mechanics' Institution.

    Its initial primary purpose as a Mechanics' Institute (one of many established about this time throughout the country) was to provide educational opportunities, mainly through evening classes, for working men. Lectures for the general public were also provided of wide interest covering topics ranging from Arctic exploration to Shakespeare and philosophy. Luminaries like Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope and Ralph Waldo Emerson delivered talks and readings in the main lecture hall (now the architecturally restructured Sir Paul McCartney Auditorium of LIPA).

    By 1840 the Institution offered evening classes, lectures, a library and a boys' lower and upper school. By the 1850s a formal art school was evolving from the evening classes and in 1856 this diversity was recognised by another name change – The Liverpool Institute and School of Arts.

    A girl's school was founded & opened in 1844 under the name Liverpool Institute High School for Girls. It was housed in a merchant's mansion across the street from the boys' school in Blackburne House provided by the generosity of Mr. George Holt and which was later (1872) donated to the school by his family in his memory. The school was one of the first which was open to the public in the country established exclusively for the education of girls.



    In 1905 the Liverpool City Council took over the management of the secondary schools when the LI Board of Governors presented the school and assets to the City. From then until its closure in 1985, the school was formally known as The Liverpool Institute High School for Boys or more familiarly as The Institute or the The Inny to its pupils.

    It was an English grammar school for boys ages 11 to 18 with an excellent academic reputation built up over more than a century. Its list of scholarships and places at Oxford University and Cambridge University runs to some 300 names – in addition to distinctions gained at Liverpool University and at many other prominent British universities. The school was a true measure of Liverpool's intellectual capital and its old boys could and can be found in later life in many fields of professional distinction including: law, the Church, armed forces, politics, academia, government and colonial administration as well as in trade & commerce.

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    Mr George Holt, I wonder if he was the shipowner, Guinea gulf line,went to
    west Africa.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ernie View Post
    Mr George Holt, I wonder if he was the shipowner, Guinea gulf line,went to
    west Africa.
    Quite correct. See http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/s...t_westcott.asp
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    Interestingly an attempt was made in the mid 19th C to form a University College within the Liverpool Institute Building. This was not a success and was short lived. Liverpool had to wait until the late 19th C for a University College to be built.
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    The George Holt Physics Laboratory building, which is in the university quadrangle at the Ashton street entrance, was also named after him. It was opened in 1904. The building is still in use as offices.

    It was my first place of employment after leaving school.

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