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| Name: | Robert HEBBLETHWAITE |
| Sex: | Male |
| Father: | John HEBBLETHWAITE ( - ) |
| Mother: | - |
| Occupation | Clerk in Holy Orders. |
Robert was the first Head of Sedbergh school.
A link exists between the well-known Sedbergh Grammar School in Cumbria and the Hebblethwaite family. In 1525, Roger Lupton began to provide for a Chantry School at Sedbergh, and a few scholars were gathered under the Chaplain, Henry Blomeyr. Upon his death in 1543, he was succeeded by Robert Hebblethwaite, who had been admitted to the Fellowship at St John's College, Cambridge in 1538. In the period 1546-1548 many chantries were dissolved and their assets seized by the Crown. Sedbergh was saved by the pleadings of Dr Lever, the Master of St John's College, before the King and was re-established as a grammar school from 1551 with Robert Hebblethwaite as first headmaster.