‘As he came, so, mysteriously, did he vanish’: John George Glass, teacher in Lerwick, 1842–54

Abstract

In the mid-nineteenth century some merchants in Lerwick employed Moravian teachers, several from Ockbrook in Derbyshire, to teach in a series of schools that they established in the town. From 1842–54 John George Glass presided in one of their Subscription Schools, and later as parish headmaster. His teaching methods and personality, and the choir and orchestra that he established in Lerwick, ensured that he was long remembered and esteemed after his untimely death.