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Friday, May 5, 2023

Heather Grave, Great Marlow, All Saints


 Thomas Heather, master of the Free School in this town. d 5 May 1795 aged 50. 

Grave is in the churchyard of All Saints Church.

Thomas also had private pupils, some lodging with him at his house in West Steeet. He was 13 years head master of the "Free School" AKA The Bluecoats School, now known as Sir William Borlase Grammar School. He had previously been an assistant master there to his uncle William Heather. 

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