Byron House School
| Byron House School | |
|---|---|
| Address | |
North Road, Highgate , N6 4BD England | |
| Information | |
| Type | Preparatory day school |
| Established | 1897 |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Age | 5 to 13 |
Byron House School was an independent preparatory school in Highgate, London.
History
Byron House was founded in 1897 as a progressive prep school "favoured by London's intelligentsia and famous for its advanced teaching methods".[1][2] Stephen Hawking, while attending the school, complained to his parents that he wasn't learning anything.[3] Hawking later blamed its "progressive methods" for his failure to learn to read "until the fairly late age of eight".[4][5]
In 1939, pupils were evacuated to Cambridge and between 1940 and 1944, 24 children from Byron House were evacuated to Ottawa, Canada.[6][7]
John Betjeman was taught by T. S. Eliot at Byron House, before being sent to the Dragon School in Oxford.[8][9]
Notable former pupils
- John Betjeman, writer and poet
- Stephen Hawking, physicist
- Maurice Hill, geophysicist attended briefly before Highgate School[10]
- Anne Atkins, broadcaster
- Henry Fairly, journalist
- Gregory Tesser, sports journalist
- Charles Gidley Wheeler, novelist[11]
References
- ^ "Leonora Hooper". ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 2020-07-06.
- ^ "Hornsey, including Highgate: Education | British History Online". www.british-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-07-06.
- ^ "Stephen Hawking: "I'm happy if I have added something to our understanding of the universe"". Radio Times. Retrieved 2020-07-06.
- ^ "Book Page - Tabbed". Penguin Random House Secondary Education. Retrieved 2020-07-06.
- ^ Hawking, Stephen (2013-09-12). My Brief History. Transworld. ISBN 978-1-4481-6991-7.
- ^ "THE EVACUATION OF BRITISH CHILDREN TO CANADA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR". Imperial War Museums. Retrieved 2020-07-06.
- ^ Brendon, Vyvyen (2009-12-12). Prep School Children: A Class Apart Over Two Centuries. A&C Black. ISBN 978-1-84706-287-1.
- ^ "Byron House Montessori School, Highgate, London | Representative Poetry Online". rpo.library.utoronto.ca. Retrieved 2020-07-06.
- ^ "John Betjeman Biography". Britain Unlimited. Retrieved 2020-07-06.
- ^ Bullard, Edward Crisp (1967-11-01). "Maurice Neville Hill, 1919-1966". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 13: 192–203. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1967.0009.
- ^ Wheeler, Charles Gidley (June 2007). A Good Boy Tomorrow: Memoirs of a Fundamentalist Upbringing. iUniverse. ISBN 978-0-595-43685-9.