<p style="margin: 6.0pt 0cm 6.0pt 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #102d3f;">The school was built 1907–09, commissioned by George Herbert Strutt - a direct descendent of Jedediah Strutt, the famous industrialist who developed the cotton industry in Belper. </span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #102d3f;">Herbert Strutt, was given the go-ahead to provide a school for the town in March 1907, and the site he chose for the new school was opposite the town ‘s workhouse, Babington House. </span></p>
<p style="margin: 6.0pt 0cm 6.0pt 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #102d3f;">By the spring of 1909 the work was complete, and the school, named after its creator, was officially opened on May 7th 1909</span></p>
<p style="margin: 6.0pt 0cm 6.0pt 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #102d3f;">A, Mr W Tunnicliffe was appointed the new headmaster and remained in place until his retirement in 1936</span></p>
History of George Herbert Strutt.
<p style="margin: 6.0pt 0cm 6.0pt 0cm;"><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #202122; background: white;">George Herbert Strutt</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #202122; background: white;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; word-spacing: 0px;"> (21 April 1854– 17 May 1928), was a cotton mill owner and philanthropist from Belper in Derbyshire. The Strutt family made themselves, and Britain, rich with their cotton business.</span> Strutt bought the Scottish Glensanda estate.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 6.0pt 0cm 6.0pt 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #202122; background: white;">George Strutt </span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #202122;">died of pneumonia, aged 74, at Ballater in Scotland on 17 May 1928.</span></p>
<strong>Strange! </strong>
<p style="background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 6.0pt 0cm 6.0pt 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #202122;">After Strutt's death, the estate at Glensanda was inherited by his son Arthur and then shared, in 1930, with Arthur's New Zealand wife, Patricia. Arthur died in odd circumstances. He went out one morning in 1977 and never returned; five years later he was presumed to be dead. On the Monday following his memorial service his body was found. His clothed skeleton was discovered half a mile from his home by forestry workers, but it was too late to ascertain his cause of death. </span></p>