The Grants maintained their ownership of the castle until 1912, although the raids from the west continued.
It is a tragedy that the Labour Government abolished grant maintained schools and GP fundholders.
"The last Conservative government succeeded in turning the liberal tide with grant maintained schools, city technology colleges and the national curriculum.
Between January 1993 and September 1999, the school was grant maintained, and it was the freedom of this status that allowed McCabe to steal without fear of discovery.
For a quarter of a century, Tory and Labour ministers created academies, grant maintained schools, specialist schools, city technology colleges and free schools, spattered across the country, a Whitehall education empire rivalling but always more expensive than local council schools.
"New Labour and its liberal elite have scrapped grant maintained schools - the very mechanism that rescued schools like Archbishop Tenison's and hundreds of others from the clutches of politically motivated local education authorities.
To reinforce the trend, the Conservatives encouraged state schools to opt out of LEA control, taking extra funds to become grant maintained schools with the power to select their intake.
As no concerns were raised with us, we could only assume that all was well". McCabe's thieving came to light in 1999, with the end of grant maintained status.
Did he not notice what was happening?" In a statement, the archdiocese of Southwark said: "It is highly regrettable that Colleen McCabe abused her position at the school, committing acts of dishonesty... The offences took place during a period when the school opted out of diocesan and local education authority control to become grant maintained.
"I've never been taught to keep accounts and found it difficult to do so". City academies now have the same legal powers as the former grant maintained schools to manage their money beyond the prying eyes of the local authority.
