CHARTERHOUSE, a celebrated school and charitable foundation in London, England. In 1370 Sir Walter Manny and Northburgh, bishop of London, built and endowed it as a priory for Carthusian monks (hence the name, a corruption of Chartreuse, the celebrated Carthusian convent). After the dissolution of the monasteries it passed through several hands till it came into the possession of Thomas Sutton, who, in 1611, converted it into a hos pital, richly endowed consisting of a master, preacher, head schoolmaster, with 40 boys and 80 indigent gentlemen, together with a physician and other officers and servants of the house. Each boy is educated at a certain expense and each pensioner receives food, clothing, lodging and an allowance of about $150 a year. The pensioners, "poor brethren,* must be over 50 years of age and members of the Church of England. The Charterhouse School was re moved to new buildings near Godalming, in Surrey, in 1872, the premises sold to the Mer chant Taylors' School, a fine range of build ings being erected on the site. The non
academic department of the Charterhouse still remains in the old buildings. The special garb of the scholars has been discarded, and Char terhouse is one of the great public schools of England. Several of the famous men who have received their education at the Charter house are Isaac Barrow, Addison, Steele, John Wesley, Blackstone, Grote, Thirlwall, Havelock, 'John Leech and Thackeray. Charterhouse, and one of its "poor brethren,* Colonel Newcome, has been immortalized by Thackeray in 'The Newcomes.' Consult Brown, Haig, 'The Char lerhouse, Past and Present' (London 1879) ; Taylor, W. F., 'The Charterhouse of London> (London 1912).