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CMS Grammar School Celebrates its 156th Anniversary
CMS Grammar School, Lagos is the oldest secondary school in Nigeria. It was founded on the 6th of June 1859. In honour of its 156th Anniversary here is a brief history of the school. A Brief History of the School One of the major consequences of the advent of European Missionaries and the subsequent exploration of the interior regions of Nigeria was a rise in the establishment of Churches and Schools by the Missionaries. The missionaries had projected that if evangelism was to witness success and progress, education of the citizenry was inescapable. Thus, began the founding of many elementary schools, under the auspices of the CMS Mission and in line with that exploratory pattern. One of the leaders of the CMS Mission, Henry Venn was said to have favoured and encouraged the education of Africans for the African Mission, under a familiar climate. One of the products of that indigenization campaign was Thomas Babington Macaulay, an African and Nigerian who was spotted and picked from...
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