"The Fallow Years" is a term coined by Thomas B. Davis in his history Chronicles of Hopkins Grammar School to describe the period from 1696 to 1853. During this time the school had difficulty finding qualified schoolmasters, and the Fund often fell short

The founding of Hopkins was largely the work of the Reverend John Davenport, an Oxford educated Puritan minister, who emigrated from London to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1637. With Davenport, on board the Hector, were several of his devout Puritan pa

St. Mark's continues to maintain close ties to the Episcopal Church.

Headmaster Parkman left the school in 1942 – to enlist in the army – and never returned, although he remained active in independent school policy all his life, eventually rising to the presidency of the National Association of Independent Schools in Bosto