Fothergill remembered

Ackworth School remembers founder

by The Friend Newsdesk 16th March 2012

An eighteenth-century Quaker physician has been remembered in a series of events at the school he founded.  A celebration on 8 March marked three hundred years since the birth of John Fothergill, who founded Ackworth School near Pontefract in 1779. He died the following year.