The Royal Merchant Navy School Foundation

The Royal Merchant Navy School Foundation
since 1827

Patron: HM The Queen
President: HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, KG, KT

OUR HERITAGE

Created in 1827 to provide board and lodging for the orphans of British Merchants' (sic) Seamen, the Foundation was only required to provide education to its beneficiaries in the late 19th Century as a result of the 1870 Education Act although education, sufficient to enable Foundationers to obtain ‘suitable employment’, had always been provided before then.

While the Foundation's place of business has changed over the years, the one consistent objective has been to help our beneficiaries. The means to achieve his have also changed over the years; from an Orphan Asylum to an Orphanage, to a School and, now as demand and facilities have changed, to using the appropriate educational facilities now available in the UK.

We started in Bow Road, London in 1827. We moved to Snaresbrook in 1862 and then to Bear Wood in 1921.

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The Royal Merchant Navy School Foundation, Bearwood, Wokingham, Berkshire RG41 5BG
Telephone: +44 (0)118 997 7700, Fax: +44 (0)118 977 5904, E-mail

Registered Charity Number 309047

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