LUCTON, a parish in the hundred of WOLPHY,
county of HEREFORD, 6 miles (N. W.) from Leominster,
containing 181 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Hereford,
endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £600
royal bounty, and in the patronagl of the Governors
of Lucton school. The church is dedicated to St. Peter.
The school was founded, in 1708, by John Pierrepont,
Esq., for three masters to teach fifty children, not
paupers, of the five adjoining parishes; the endowment
consists of land and tithes in Orlton, Yarpole, Luston,
Eyton, and Lucton, the annual value of which is now
about £800: it is vested in a body corporate, styled
"The Governors of Lucton school," viz., the master
and preacher of the Charter-house, London, the common
Serjeant, the rectors of St. Botolph's Bishopsgate,
and St. Peter's Cornhill, the preacher of Gray's Inn, the
master of Merchant-Taylors' school, and the president
of Sion College. The present number on the establishment
is sixty-four, via., fifty sons of poor farmers
and labourers, and fourteen of more opulent parents,
the latter of whom pay £1.5. per annum each; they are
taught the classics, English, writing, &c., and are allowed
£10 as an apprentice fee, and £20 at the termination of
their apprenticeship.