Grove House School
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Grove House School was a
School
The school was established in 1828 as a boarding school for 75 boys of the
Tottenham Green
next to the building of a former Quaker school which had closed some two years before its opening. The site was acquired for Tottenham Polytechnic which became the College of North East London (now the College of Haringey, Enfield and North East London following a merger
with Enfield College August 2009).
In 1890, the Quakers were to found another school,
Leighton Park
, such as the Cadburys, Foxes, Frys, Backhouses and Hodgkins.
Alumni
- Josiah Forster (1782-1870), Headmaster of Grove House School, anti-slavery campaigner
- MPpermitted to take his seat in parliament
- William Henry Leatham (1815-1889), banker and MP
- William Edward Forster (1818-1886), Liberal statesman and businessman whose 1870 Act introduced compulsory primary education
- ornithologist
- Edmund Backhouse (MP)(1824-1906), MP
- Joseph Lister (1827-1912), surgeon
- Sir Robert Fowler, 1st Baronet (1828-1891), MP
- Alexander Peckover, 1st Baron Peckover (1830-1919), banker
- Alfred Waterhouse (1830-1905), architect
- Thomas Hodgkin (1831-1913), physician
- Edward Burnett Tylor (1832-1917), anthropologist
- Joseph Henry Shorthouse (1834-1903), author
- Arthur Pease(1837-1898), MP
- Rickman Godlee (1849-1925), surgeon
- William Leatham Bright (1851-1910), MP
- George Stacey Albright (1855-1945), a director of Albright and Wilson
- Sir Alfred Pease, 2nd Baronet (1857-1939), MP and sportsman
- Alfred Emmott, 1st Baron Emmott (1858-1926), MP
- John William Wilson (1858-1932), MP
- Jack Pease, 1st Baron Gainford (1860-1943), MP and Chairman of the BBC
- William Somervell (1860-1934), MP and Chairman of K Shoes
- Henry Head (1861-1940), neurosurgeon
References
- ^ Society of Friends (1888). "Grove School". Biographical Catalogue: Being an Account of the Lives of Friends and Others Whose Portraits are in the London Friends' Institute. Also Descriptive Notices of Those of the Friends' Schools and Institutions of which the Gallery Contains Illustrations, &c., &c., &c. London: Friends' institute, West Newham and Co. p. 835.
- ^ de Carteret-Bisson, F. S. (1872). Our Schools and Colleges, 1872 ... By F. S. de Carteret-Bisson. London: Simpkin, Marshall & Company. p. 272.