Hillbrow School

Hillbrow School was an English boys' preparatory school established in 1859 in the Midland town of Rugby. The founder was John William Joseph Vecquerary, a Prussian by birth, who had been recently recruited as a modern languages master at Rugby School, to which it was a feeder school, although he remained in post at Rugby.[1] In 1870 the school moved to a purpose-built building on Barby Road.[2]

The name Hillbrow, taken from the name of the building erected to house the school, was in use by the time of his successor, Thomas Bainbridge Eden, who according to Duncan Grant, one of its most famous pupils, ran "a Spartan institution with only about forty pupils".[3] Eden was asked to leave as head in 1908 following a scandal about his sexual interest in his pupils.[4]

  1. ^ Leinster-Mackay, Donald P. (1984). The rise of the English prep school. Falmer Press.
  2. ^ "THE ORIGINS OF HILLBROW SCHOOL IN RUGBY". Our Warwickshire. Retrieved 20 August 2020.
  3. ^ Frances Spalding (1997). Duncan Grant, A Biography. Random House UK. ISBN 0-7126-6640-0.
  4. ^ Jean Moorcroft Wilson (9 August 2018). Robert Graves: From Great War Poet to Good-bye to All That (1895-1929). Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 47–. ISBN 978-1-4729-2916-7. Retrieved 20 January 2019.