Education
Rotherham Grammar School continued throughout 18th Century taking fee-paying boys. All right the parents paid the fees. Sons of the better off citizens would attend here for a classics–based education. Many would then go up to Oxford or Cambridge.
In 1702 Thomas Hollis of London, son of a Rotherham whitesmith, founded a school for poor children in Rotherham.
The Feoffees also founded a charity school in 1708 but it is uncertain where the actual school was situated. Its purpose was to teach children how to read, write, and presumably for the girls, to knit and sew. It was known as the Bluecoat School as the children wore a predominantly blue uniform. In 1775 the Feoffees built a new school in the Crofts.
The building has gone through several incarnations and is presently a Wetherspoon's pub called the Bluecoat.