Byron House School Explained

Byron House School
Address:North Road, Highgate
Postcode:N6 4BD
Country:England
Type:Preparatory day school
Head Label:Headmaster
Gender:Coeducational
Lower Age:5
Upper Age:13
Dfeno:213/6034

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] and later blamed its teaching methods for his failure to learn to read "until the fairly late age of eight".[4] [5] Another former pupil,[6] Sir James Lighthill was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics directly before Hawking.

In 1939, pupils were evacuated to Cambridge and between 1940 and 1944, 24 children from Byron House were evacuated to Ottawa, Canada.[7] [8]

John Betjeman was taught by T. S. Eliot at Byron House, before being sent to the Dragon School in Oxford.[9] [10]

Notable former pupils

References

  1. News: Leonora Hooper. The Times. en. 2020-07-06. 0140-0460.
  2. Web site: Hornsey, including Highgate: Education British History Online. 2020-07-06. www.british-history.ac.uk.
  3. Web site: Stephen Hawking: "I'm happy if I have added something to our understanding of the universe". 2020-07-06. Radio Times. en.
  4. Web site: Book Page - Tabbed. 2020-07-06. Penguin Random House Secondary Education.
  5. Book: Hawking, Stephen. My Brief History. 2013-09-12. Transworld. 978-1-4481-6991-7. en.
  6. Web site: Crocker . Malcolm J. . SIR JAMES LIGHTHILL AND HIS CONTRIBUTIONS TO SCIENCE .
  7. Web site: THE EVACUATION OF BRITISH CHILDREN TO CANADA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR. 2020-07-06. Imperial War Museums. en.
  8. Book: Brendon, Vyvyen. Prep School Children: A Class Apart Over Two Centuries. 2009-12-12. A&C Black. 978-1-84706-287-1. en.
  9. Web site: Byron House Montessori School, Highgate, London Representative Poetry Online. 2020-07-06. rpo.library.utoronto.ca.
  10. Web site: John Betjeman Biography. 2020-07-06. Britain Unlimited. en-GB.
  11. Bullard. Edward Crisp. 1967-11-01. Maurice Neville Hill, 1919-1966. Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 13. 192–203. 10.1098/rsbm.1967.0009. free.
  12. Book: Wheeler, Charles Gidley. A Good Boy Tomorrow: Memoirs of a Fundamentalist Upbringing. June 2007. iUniverse. 978-0-595-43685-9. en.

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