name Gresham, with gres being a Middle English form of grass (Old English grœs). In the system of English heraldry, the grasshopper is said to represent wisdom and nobility. Development and external relations During the celebrations of the school's 450th year in 2005, the establishment was announced of a Foundation to focus on encouraging legacies and donations for scholarships, bursaries and specific major projects. A Director of Development and External Relations has since been appointed, as part of a programme of reaching out to Old Greshamians, and gatherings are planned around the UK and overseas. Bibliography Holmes, John, A New Grammar of the Latin Tongue... freed from the many obscurities, defects, superfluities and errors, which render the common grammar an insufferable impediment to the progress of education, by (1732, thirteenth edition 1788) Holmes, John, History of England, Performed by the Gentlemen of the Grammar School... at their Christmas breaking up (drama, published in Latin and English, 1737) Holmes, John, The Art of Rhetorick made easy... to meet the needs of the time when schoolboys are expected to be led, sooth'd and entic'd to their studies … rather than by force and harsh discipline drove, as in days of yore (1738) The Mirror of Literature, Amusement and Instruction, 27 August 1825 Crockford's Scholastic Directory, 1861 (has article on Gresham's School) The Free Grammar School at Holt, Norfolk in Report on the Charities of the Fishmongers' Company: Part I (City of London Livery Companies Commission Report, Volume 4, 1884) pp. 223–249 Radford, Rev. L. B., History of Holt: a brief study of parish, church and school (Rounce & Wortley, 1908, BL 10358.f.38) Howson, George William Saul, Sermons by a Lay Headmaster, Preached at Gresham's School, 1900–1918 (Longmans, Green and Co, 1920) Partridge, H. W., Register of Gresham's School, 1900–20 (Holt, 1920) Gresham's School, Holt: Meeting New Demands of Life in The Times, August 6, 1920 Simpson, James Herbert, Howson of Holt: A study in school life (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1925, 93 pp) Taylor, C. K., 'Where Boys and Masters Pull Together: The Sixth and Final Article on the Schools of England', in Smith, Alfred Emanuel, New Outlook (Outlook Publishing Company, Inc., 1927), pp. 112–115 Auden, W. H., 'Gresham's School', in Greene, Graham (ed.), The Old School: Essays by Divers Hands (London: Jonathan Cape, 1934) Eccles, J. R., One Hundred Terms at Gresham's School (1934) Eccles, J. R., My Life as a Public