|
When
Robert Hugh Munro died in 1798, he willed a sum of money "for the
endowment of a school in the parish of St. Elizabeth, Jamaica for
the education of poor children of the parish." These funds were
bequeathed in a trust to his nephew, Dr. Caleb Dickenson and the
churchwardens of the parish and their successors to be used to establish
and operate the school.
The
funds were used for other purposes until 1856, when through an Act
of the Legislature the remainder of the bequest was used to establish
the Munro & Dickenson Free School in Black River. The following
year the school was moved to Potsdam, the highest point in the Santa
Cruz Mountains, and was at that time the only high school for boys
in the western Jamaica. The name of the school was later changed
to Munro College.
In
1858 Mount Zion, a high school for girls was founded from the Trust
funds. That school was later relocated to its present site at Malvern,
and renamed Hampton School. The Mission of the Munro and Dickenson
Trust is philosophically oriented towards promoting and nurturing
the qualities of discipline, scholarship, integrity and leadership
in the students of Munro and Hampton.
MEMBERS OF THE MUNRO AND DICKENSON TRUST
Dr. Brian Morgan, Chairman
Prof. Owen Morgan,
Immediate-Past Chairman
Ms. Alicia Browne, Deputy Chairman
Mr. Mr. Greg Shirley,Member,
Mrs. Merle Parchment,Member
Mrs. Yvonne Lawton-Foster, Member
Lassen Harvey, Member,
Dr. John Browne, Member
Mr. Norman Planter, Member
|
