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| The History of Sir William Boreman's Foundation |
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In his Will, dated February 1684, Sir William Boreman bequeathed to the Drapers’ Company the school he had founded in Greenwich, together with adjacent land and property and other property interests, on trust for the endowment of the school.
By 1773 the school was in serious financial difficulties and was closed for several years. In 1788, the school was reopened and functioned successfully until 1874 when its site was compulsorily acquired for the extension of the South Eastern Railway. The school continued for a few years as a day-school, in temporary premises, but in 1886 a new Scheme of the Charity Commissioners provided for boys to be educated at Greenwich Hospital School as Boreman Foundationers.
When Greenwich Hospital School moved to Suffolk in 1927, a Scheme laid the foundations of the present work of the Charity. This was revised by subsequent Schemes in 1962 and 1998 which together enable the net income to be used for granting awards for the education and training of young people (male and female), under 25 years of age and residing in Greenwich and Lewisham. Preference is still shown towards children of watermen, seamen or fishermen.
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