Benjamin Flounders inherited a large estate at Culmington, near Ludlow, Shrophire as well as his property in Yarm. A Director of the Stockton & Darlington Railway, he donated more than half of the money needed to build Barnard Castle School as well as the Flounders Institute at Ackworth School in Pontefract, West Yorkshire , a Quaker teacher training centre. The cost is £12.00 plus £1.50 post and packaging. . 248 pages plus colour photographs.