In 1867 Parliament became concerned about the inconsistent and frequently inadequate standard of secondary education available to the fee-paying middle classes and commissioned a nation-wide inquiry into the status and performance of all such schools. The Schools Inquiry Commission (just Google it) published its report in many volumes, of which Volume XIV covers the counties of Devon, Cornwall, Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire, and is online at https://archive.org/stream/cu31924032401162#page/n5/mode/2up The Devon section has detailed reviews of 23 boys schools and 2 girls schools, and tabulated data for many more. This is perhaps social history rather than genealogy but typically identifies headmasters and local governors. I looked for a person at Allhallows School in Honiton and read it was much improved after he ceased to be headmaster! Probably worth adding to the Schools section of GENUKI Devon. And if you really want social history, the Commission reported on girls' education, as reprinted at http://www.educationengland.org.uk/documents/sicr/sicr1-06.html Martin Beavis