Sutton's Hospital
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The school and hospital flourished, although there were difficult times during the Commonwealth due to Parliamentary interference and lack of funds. At the time the Schoolmaster and Preacher were removed from office due to their Royalist sympathies.
Urban expansion in the nineteenth century, and the decline of the area into slum conditions, led to the desire to move the school, and the Public Schools Commission of 1864 recommended a move out of London.
Old Carthusians resisted, but Headmaster William Haig Brown won the day, and in 1872 the school moved to its present site near Godalming in Surrey. This led to the two parts of the foundation being partially separated - each having its own board of Governors.
Part of the London site was sold to Merchant Taylor's School, who in turn sold it, in 1933, to St. Bartholomew's Hospital.
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