Date of foundation uncertain, and here 1603 taken arbitrarily as a date. 'The School [at Whicham] was built at charge of inhabitants and endowed with £16 p.a. (as 'tis commonly said, by one Hodgson)'. Hodgson according to 1820 Charity Commissioners said to be a servant of Queen Elizabeth> This school had over 60 pupils in 1779, studying Greek, Latin and English. gastrell's visitation only treats this school under Whicham, and this must be what in the records is called Whicham and Millom Free Grammar School. But the survey also records a school separately under Millom, to which Joseph Hudleston of Millom Castle gave £100, interest is paid to the Master by the Church Jury when he is chosen.' Charity Commissioners in 1820 credited this to Mrs Bridget Hudleston about 1714, sum lost about 1780. The Cumbria Parishes,1714-1725, ed. L.A.S. Butler, Cumb. & Westmor. Ant. & Arch. Soc., Rec. Ser. vol. 12 (1998), 73, 171, 67-8.