Jeremy Collier
| Jeremy Collier | |
|---|---|
| Education | Cambridge |
| Years at BGS | 1641-1644 |
Jeremy Collier was a teacher at Boston Grammar School. He was appointed on 19 March 1641 and remained at the school until 1644.
He was at Cambridge when Laud commented:
"Students do not wear clerical clothes, but new fashioned gowns of blue, green, red or mixed colours; they have fair roses upon their shoes, wear long frizzled hair upon their head, broad spread bands upon the shoulders and long Merchants' Ruffs about the neck, with fair feminine cuffs at ye wrist. Tutors allow their pupils to draw double supper money to spend in the town..."
On leaving Boston Grammar School in 1644 he returned to Cambridge as a fellow of St John's College late in 1644, in the place of an expelled royalist sympathiser, At a time when parliamentary Cambridge was under a grave royalist threat. It was reported that, "frightened by the Neighbourhood Noise of War, our students either quit their Gowns, or abandon their Studies".
Later he was dismissed as master of Ipswich School - but his son earned himself a place in the history books as the author of historical and moral works and as the country's leading "non-juror bishop".