Founded either in 1612 or 1614 by Humphrey Walwyn under patronage of the Grocers' Company (stated in 'Colton-Comberbatch: a Topographical Dictionary of England' (1848) - url http://www. british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50891&strquery=colwall - accessed 24 Nov. 2008. School still exists under name of the Elms preparatory school on the same site and its website states that it celebrated 400 years of its founding in 2014