The History of MTS
Timeline of the school
![MTS School Crest](/fileadmin/_processed_/f/b/csm_company-livery_0cbaed8c1b.png)
Merchant Taylors’ Company founded the School
![Book Cover of Richard Mulcaster's "The first part of the elementarie"](/fileadmin/_processed_/4/c/csm_Mulcaster-title-lg_3d3a689c9e.jpg)
Headmaster Richard Mulcaster publishes his programme for education the Positions and Elementarie
![Portrait of John Goad](/fileadmin/_processed_/a/1/csm_John_Goad_HM_During_the_Great_Fire_v2_ea249560ac.jpg)
John Goad rescues the School Library during the Great Fire of London.
![Former School Buildings on Suffolk Lane](/fileadmin/_processed_/a/7/csm_Suffolk-Lane_42c55bbfe3.jpg)
New buildings on Suffolk Lane completed
![Portrait of John Walter, OMT](/fileadmin/_processed_/1/e/csm_John_Walter_-_painting_by_George_Romney_v2_ae03f3a5b5.jpg)
John Walter, OMT, renamed his newspaper The Times
Merchant Taylors’ one of the nine leading schools named in the Clarendon Report
![School Building at Charterhouse Square](/fileadmin/user_upload/The_Merchant_Taylor_s_School__Charterhouse__London__the_new_Wellcome_V0013043.jpg)
MTS moves to Charterhouse Square and modernised its curriculum
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The House system was introduced
![MTS grounds at Sandy Lodge](/fileadmin/_processed_/3/7/csm_A_view_from_the_Long_Drive_2_0ec777d059.jpg)
The School moved to its current location in Sandy Lodge
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The School expanded the House system to eight houses
![Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother Opens the Music Building](/fileadmin/_processed_/8/a/csm_Queen_Mother_1967_opening_Music_Block_6a7a470402.png)
Opening of Music Building
![Stone carved image of swimmer](/fileadmin/_processed_/1/f/csm_SwimmingTile_2_9e39d829c3.jpg)
Opening of Sports Hall/ Swimming Pool
Saturday Morning School Ceases
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Opening of Modern Foreign Languages Building
Boarding House Closes
![MTS New School Reception](/fileadmin/_processed_/1/b/csm_P3270401_63dca743ca.jpg)
Opening of New Reception / Undercroft
![OMT War Memorial Clubhouse](/fileadmin/_processed_/e/1/csm_DSC_0168_a33be9c6ec.jpg)
Old Merchant Taylors’ War Memorial Clubhouse relocated to School site
![MTS Design Centre](/fileadmin/_processed_/1/8/csm_DI7A4212_e9cfb8b3b5.jpg)
Opening of Design Centre
![Displays in the Edward Evans Building](/fileadmin/_processed_/e/f/csm_Edward_Evans_building_2_1a8c09641b.jpg)