Alakina Mann

Alakina Mann

James Allen's Girls' School is an independent day school situated in Dulwich, South London, England. It has a senior school for 11- to 18-year-old girls, a prep school for 7- to 11-year-old girls (James Allen's Preparatory School), and a pre-preparatory school for 4- to 7-year-old girls. It is the sister school of Dulwich College and Alleyn's. In 1604 the hamlet of Dulwich, its name recorded well before the Norman Conquests, was bought by the Elizabethan actor and entrepreneur, Edward Alleyn, for £4,900. Fourteen years later, Alleyn invested his fortune establishing Alleyn’s College of God’s Gift, buying land for a school, a chapel and the alms houses in Dulwich. The JAGS connection came soon after. In 1621 Alleyn’s diary states that he dined with Sheriff Allen, and it was the sheriff’s great-grandson James Allen who was the founder of the school. James Allen whose distinguished portrait bears the inscription ‘skilful as a skaitor: a jumper, athletic and humane’ was visionary. Allen (Master of Dulwich College from 1723) founded the original Reading School which opened in June 1741 for poor children, both boys and girls living in Dulwich.

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