Sir William Paston

Clement left Oxnead to his nephew, Sir William Paston (1528–1610). This William was the founder of the Paston Grammar School in North Walsham. He made Oxnead his principal home but is buried in North Walsham church. .

Notes

• from North Walsham's Paston School

Sir William Paston opened his free Grammar School in 1606 for “the training, instructing and bringing up of youth in good manners, learning and the true fear, service and worship of almighty God whereby they might become good and profitable members in the Church and Commonwealth’’. The school grew until the Civil War when the last of the Paston family gave it up.
Shortly after in 1769, brothers William and Horatio Nelson came to the school as boarders, and from here, in March 1771, a young Horatio set out on his legendary career ....

Links

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxnead_
• http://www.thepeerage.com/p31882.htm#i318815