Author: SCHOOL REPORT
Title: Queen Elizabeth's School, Ipswich. For Bidwell form Under 5th.
Description: Ipswich: Queen Eizabeth School, Midsummer, 1857. Single sheet, 230 x 180 mm. This item may have at some time been mounted and will bear traces on the reverse of adhesive or removal of mounts. A good pupil being placed 2nd overall in a class of 14. Signed by the headmaster, Stephen Jordan Rigaud. Rigaud [1816 - 59] used his wide connections to recruit promising pupils whose fathers he knew. Despite his many lasting achievements, Rigaud was unhappy at the school, which he subsidised from his own pocket. Resentment at the cost of the new school persisted in the town, where there was also a feeling that he preferred boarders to day boys drawn from the local area, and matters came to a head when radicals in Ipswich brought an unsuccessful prosecution against him in April 1856 for punishing a day boy with undue severity. In 1858 Rigaud was chosen as Bishop of Antigua> he was consecrated on 2 February and went out to his diocese almost immediately. On 17 May 1859 he died in Antigua of yellow fever, his wife surviving him. A massive stone memorial marks his grave in the grounds of the cathedral there.

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