 The present school houses are an amalgamation of houses from the boys ' Grammar and girls ' High schools ; in 1971 , the houses were named Parke @-@ Southwell , Peckover @-@ Crane , Clarkson @-@ Dennis and Holmes @-@ Sparks . Thomas Parke and John Crane were 17th @-@ century benefactors of the Grammar school , John Dennis was a Wisbech solicitor who was a governor of the Girls ' High School between 1904 – 1932 and Alfred Southwell was mayor of Wisbech in 1903 , who chaired the committee formed to set up the school and was subsequently the first chairman of the governors . The Southwell family , incidentally , once owned Bevis Hall , the manor in Wisbech St Mary which once held jurisdiction over the land on North Brink on which Harecroft House is sited . 
