page_title: Clergy Support Trust
section_title: Clergy Orphan Corporation
hierarchical_section_title: Clergy Support Trust / Clergy Orphan Corporation
context_page_description: Clergy Support Trust is a charity which was formerly known as Sons & Friends of the Clergy. The full official name of the charity is Governors of the Charity for Relief of the Poor Widows and Children of Clergymen. The present charity resulted from an amalgamation of two Anglican clergy support charities in December 2012. The two parent organisations, the Corporation of the Sons of the Clergy and the Friends of the Clergy Corporation, date from 1655 and 1820 respectively. The charity exists to provide financial and other support to serving or retired clergy of the Anglican Communion, with a main focus on clergy in the British Isles. It also provides assistance to clergy widows, children, orphans, and other dependants.
context_section_description: In 1749 a Society was formed for the purpose of founding both a Boys' and Girls' school for the maintenance and education of the orphans of Anglican Clergyman in England and Wales. This society was incorporated in 1809 as The Governors of the Society for Clothing, Maintaining, and Educating Poor Orphans of Clergymen of the Established Church in that part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain called England, until of Age to be put to Apprentice by Act 49 of George III of 28 April 1809. The common name for the organisation was the Clergy Orphan Corporation and the two schools it supported were generally known as the Clergy Orphan Schools.  Initially the boys were educated under a master in Thirsk in Yorkshire and the girls in a school-house in Chapel Street, Lisson Grove, Marylebone, London. The boys moved to Acton, London in 1805, and in 1812 both the girls and boys were moved to St. John's Wood in London.
  In 1852 Dr Samuel Wilson Warneford, purchased a site for a new school in Canterbury and provided funds for the construction of a school and for scholarships. This led to the Boys' School moving to Canterbury and the Girls' School taking over the whole of the St John's Woods site
  .  The boys school was renamed St. Edmunds in 1897. It is now an independent co-educational schools for boys and girls from 3 to 18.
  The girl's school was compulsorily purchased by a railway company in 1895 and demolished. The girls, after a temporary stay in Windsor, moved to a purpose built school at St Merry Hill Road, Bushey, Hertfordshire. The new school was designed by the renowned architect Alfred Waterhouse who was responsible for such buildings as the Natural History Museum in London and many other buildings. The school was named for Saint Margaret of Scotland. It is now an independent day and boarding school for girls.
  The Schools Enquiry Commission report (1868) found that the expenditure on both schools was just under £7,500 in 1864, with roughly half for each school. The expenses of the charity administration, printing, appeals, elections, managing bequests etc., were approximately £730. Although both schools could nominally accommodate 100 pupils, there are accommodation for only 90 in the Girls School. In the second half of 1886 there were 85 boarders in the Boys' School, and in 1864 there were 76 boarders in the Girls' School, although this rose to 83 before the Commission printed their report.
  The two schools, St Edmund's School Canterbury and St Margaret's School, Bushey were incorporated as limited companies and separate charities on 20 May 1996 and no longer formed part of the Clergy Orphan Corporation. The Clergy Orphan Corporation was fully incorporated into the Corporation of the Sons of the Clergy in 1997, via Statutory Instrument 1997 No, 2240 "Charities".
caption: St. Edmunds, the Clergy Orphan Corporation Boys' School
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