Founded 1659 by Rev. William Griffith. 'There is some evidence that [in the eighteenth century] the Mobberley school may have offered grammar education in accordance with the wishes of its founder'. It is not clear whether it was still in existence by early 19C. See Notitia Cestrienses, I, 275; D. Robson, Some Aspects of Education in Cheshire in the Eighteenth Century, Chetham Soc., 3rd. ser., vol. 13 (1966), 13 (from where the quotation comes), 47, 70.