The Philberds

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The Philberds was a preparatory school based in a house in Holyport, near Maidenhead, Berkshire, on the site of one which Charles II had given to Nell Gwyn. The name derives from a family that owned land in the area in medieval times.

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School founder Edward Henry Price

Edward Henry Price (1822–1898) was educated at Rugby School under Thomas Arnold, arriving in May 1835 at aged 13. [1] He matriculated at St John's College, Cambridge, in 1841and graduating B.A. in 1845, M.A. in 1863. [2]

Ordained deacon in 1845 and priest in 1846, Price spent the years 1845 to 1853 at Lutterworth as a curate. [2] He founded The Philberds in 1862, having previously founded a school at Tarvin in Cheshire, which he moved to become Mostyn House School in Cheshire in 1855. In 1862 he sold Mostyn House School to Algernon Sydney Grenfell. [3]

Price was headmaster of The Philberds from 1862 until 1879. [2] The initial school fee was 80 guineas per annum. [4] He succeeded in building the reputation of Philberds as a preparatory school. He then took the living of Kimbolton. [5]

Later history

Frederick William Stephen Price, one of the sons, took over the school. He later was head of Ovingdean Hall School. [3] In 1885, the partnership he had with his brother Edward Matthew Price as schoolmasters at The Philberds was dissolved. [6] He left the school in the charge of his brother Edward and another brother, Herbert Johnson Price. [3] [7]

In 1898 Frank Watkinson took over the school—an Oxford B.A. in 1892, he had been an assistant master at Mostyn House School. [8] In 1904 Charles R. Lupton moved his school from Farnborough, Hampshire, to The Philberds. [9]

The school survived until the start of World War I. During the war, the manor building was used as an internment camp for German prisoners of war, [10] and in 1919 it was demolished.

Notable individuals associated with the school

Pupils:

Teachers:

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References

  1. ↑ Rugby school register: with annotations and alphabetical index. Rugby: A. J. Lawrence. 1881. p. 194.
  2. 1 2 3 "Rice, Edward Henry (PRY841EH)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  3. 1 2 3 Leinster-Mackay, Donald (16 December 2021). The Rise of the English Prep School. Routledge. p. 123 note 27. ISBN   978-1-000-35754-7.
  4. ↑ "Preparatory school for the public schools". Athenaeum. 4 July 1863.
  5. ↑ "Death of the Rev. E. H. Price". Exeter and Plymouth Gazette. 26 September 1898. p. 3.
  6. ↑ "No. 25510". The London Gazette . 11 September 1885. p. 4300.
  7. ↑ "Price, Herbert Johnson (PRY877HJ)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  8. ↑ Oxford Historical Society (1909). Brasenose College Register. Vol. I. Clarendon Press for the Oxford Historical Society. p. 688.
  9. ↑ "The Philberds, Maidenhead". Army and Navy Gazette. 3 December 1904. p. 23.
  10. ↑ "Tunnelling for liberty". The Colonialist: 4. 8 April 1915.
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