Stubbington House School
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Bagshot Road Ascot , Berkshire , SL5 9JU United Kingdom | |
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Type | Preparatory school |
Established | 1841 |
Founder | William Foster |
Closed | 1997 |
Local authority | 903 Pre LGR (1998) Berkshire |
Department for Education URN | 110116 Tables |
Gender | Initially Boys, later Mixed |
Age | 2 to 13 |
Stubbington House School in 1962, merging with Earleywood School, and it closed in 1997.
History
Donald Leinster-Mackay, an academic researcher into the history of education, has said that "No school had stronger ties with the Royal Navy in the nineteenth century than Stubbington House."
The original building was "a square
Beginning with 10 pupils,
Montagu Foster was involved in legal action on at least two occasions during his headmastership. In 1883 he lost an action brought by a former master that related to constructive dismissal, during the proceedings of which several witnesses commented on the lack of discipline at the school.
The school uniform around this period was "... an Eton type jacket with long sleeves and a waistcoat. [The] trousers were black and grey striped—long or short according to age. Caps bearing the MHF (Montagu Henry Foster) school badge were worn. In winter bowlers were worn for church with boaters in the summer."[6]
Montagu died in April 1913,[17] leaving an estate that was valued at £163,140.[18] According to Alumni Cantabrigienses, his son, Montagu Richard William Foster (1870–1935), had taken over as headmaster in 1903 and continued in that role until 1928, the same year that he received a knighthood. However, Leinster-Mackay says that the change of office took place at the time of Montagu's death in 1913.[3][d]
Montagu junior had been born and educated at the school, and subsequently he had taken his degree at Trinity College, Cambridge.[22] He had taken over running the army department upon the early death of his uncle, Courtenay, but closed it in 1913 and thus reduced the school roll by around 50 pupils. Changes in government policy, which came about primarily because of the escalating naval rivalry between Britain and Germany, also affected the school population. A reduction in numbers came with the closure of the Britannia cadet training facility, causing pupils to leave at an earlier age for the Royal Naval College at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight. The outcome of these changes was that there were 77 pupils in 1913.[3]
The Foster family line of ownership and headmastership continued with Hugh Richard Montagu Foster, who took over from his father in 1928. In 1930, the school was advertising that it had 130 pupils,[23] and Hugh continued in charge until near to his own death in July 1959.[24] Hugh's obituarist in The Times noted that this was the end of the male line, although there were plans to continue the school, and that
The school was pre-eminent in passing boys into the Royal Navy, and, in the days when Hugh Foster's grandfather ruled there, it could claim as former pupils perhaps 30 or 40 per cent of the successful candidates for the Senior Service, apart from those boys who went into the Army and, in later years, the Royal Air Force.[24]
The arrangement of the business was adjusted in 1958 with the creation of a
A few of the school buildings still remain in Stubbington, although most became derelict within a year of them being sold to Fareham Council, for £97,000, in 1962.[31] The main school house was demolished in 1967. The site and the surviving buildings are now a community centre.[2] There is a memorial to the family in the 12th-century Rowner Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin, PO13 9SU.
Notable alumni
A to D
- Bryan Bertram Bellew MC, Irish peer[33]
- Dallas G. M. Bernard, baronet[35]
- Vivian Henry Gerald Bernard CB, admiral who took part in the Battle of Jutland[36]
- Richard Bevan, Royal Navy officer
- CMG, Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Station[37]
- Henry Blagrove, naval officer, killed in the destruction of HMS Royal Oak during the Second World War
- Richard Boyle, 6th Earl of Shannon, peer and politician in the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories
- Manchester Blackley
- Cape of Good Hope Station
- National Socialistideology
- KPM, army officer, Inspector General of the Royal Irish Constabulary and inventor of snooker
- Archibald Cochrane CMG, (1874–1952), Rear-Admiral[38]
- Sir C. Preston Colvin, administrator of colonial railways in Burma and India[40]
- KBE CB, Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Australian Navy
- KBE CB, naval officer
- First Sea Lord[42]
- Hubert Edward Dannreuther DSO, naval officer
- CMG, naval officer[43]
- Angus Falconer Douglas-Hamilton VC, army officer and posthumous winner of the Victoria Cross
E to K
- Sydney Marow Eardley-Wilmot, rear-admiral and writer who was knighted in 1908; son of Sir John Eardley-Wilmot, 2nd Baronet[44]
- OBE, British racing driver and land speed recordholder
- Tony Fasson GC, naval officer and George Cross winner
- Eric Fellowes, 3rd Baron Ailwyn, naval officer and peer[46]
- Humphrey Osbaldston Brooke Firman VC, naval officer and Victoria Crosswinner
- KBE, Admiral and Fourth Sea Lord[47]
- Africa Stationand musician
- Launcelot Fleming KCVO DD, naval chaplain, Bishop of Portsmouth, Bishop of Norwich and Dean of Windsor
- Richard Foster KCB CMG DSO, son of headmaster Montagu Henry Foster, Adjutant-General Royal Marines and later colonel of the East Surrey Regiment
- CMG, naval officer[48]
- Second Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Personnel
- Herbert Arthur Stevenson Fyler KCB DSO, admiral[49]
- John Gaimes DSO, submarine commander, died in HMS K5
- CMG, naval officer and courtier
- China Station and Commander-in-Chief, North America and West Indies Station
- Controller of the Navy
- CMG DSO, army officer and Victoria Crosswinner
- CMG, Commander-in-Chief, North America and West Indies Station
- CMG, naval officer and founder of the Seaward Defence Force, South Africa
- Misan Harriman (born 1977), photographer and founder of What We Seee. Chair of trustees of the Southbank Centre. Film-maker.
- OBE, commander at the Battle of the River Plate, Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet and Commander-in-Chief, Levant[52]
- winner
- Baralong Incidents[53]
- Frank Hopkins KCB DSO DSC, Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth[54]
- Henry Horan CB DSC, Commander-in-Chief, New Zealand Division[55]
- GCVO, Olympic sailor and courtier
- CBE MC, President of the Air Armaments Board and designer of Blockbuster bombs
- KBE, naval officer and Secretary to Lloyd's of London
- First Sea Lord during much of the First World War[56]
- MVO, admiral and commander of Britannia Royal Naval College[57]
- Royal Hellenic Navy, founder of the Royal Air Force and Deputy Chief of the Air Staff
- Cape of Good Hope Station
L to R
- Bihar and Orissa
- Rear Admiral and a noted ornithologist who was a Fellow of several learned societies[58]
- Henry Gerard Laurence Oliphant DSO, naval commander in the Battle of Dover Strait (1916)[60]
- Controller of the Navy[61]
- Member of Parliament for South Londonderry
- KCMG KCVO, Commander-in-Chief, North America and West Indies Station
- Flying Training Command
- CBE, army officer known as Peake Pasha[62]
- Arthur Peters KCB DSC, naval officer[63]
- Robert Prendergast KCB, naval officer
- Lionel Preston KCB, Admiral and Fourth Sea Lord[65]
- Air Member for Supply and Organisation[66]
- cricketer for South Africaand army officer
- GBE KCB, Commander-in-Chief, West Africa, Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleetand commander of Task Force 57
- Felix Ready GBE KCB CSI CMG DSO, Quartermaster-General to the Forces
- Member of Parliament for Huntingdonshire, Minister of State at the Home Office and Deputy Speaker in the House of Lords[67]
- Stalybridge and Hyde
- Frank Rose KCB DSO, Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Station[68]
- Guy Royle KCB CMG, naval officer, secretary to the Lord Great Chamberlain and Yeoman Usher of the Black Rod
- William Ruck-Keene, admiral[70]
S to Z
- SIS and GCHQ
- Ewen Southby-Tailyour OBE, Royal Marines Officer, Yachtsman and Author
- Geoffrey Spicer-Simson DSO, naval officer
- Aubrey St Clair-Ford DSO and bar, baronet[72]
- KBE, Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet and commander of Force H
- Member of Parliament for Brierley Hill[74]
- Paddington South[75]
- Evelyn Thomson CB DSO, naval officer
- Ion Tower DSC, naval officer
- DL, army officer and race horse owner
- OBE, baronet, army officer and banker
- KBE CB, naval officer
- Commander-in-Chief, China Station, Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth
- Algernon Walker-Heneage-Vivian CB MVO, served in the defence at Ladysmith, became an admiral and, in 1926, High Sheriff of Glamorgan[77]
- Governor of Newfoundland
- CMG, army officer and politician, killed at the Battle of Magersfontein[78]
- Member of Parliament for Canterbury[79]
- Sir William Wiseman, 10th Baronet, intelligence agent and investment banker
- Stalybridge and Hyde
- Algernon Yelverton, 6th Viscount Avonmore, Irish nobleman
See also
- Burney's Academy
- Eastman’s Royal Naval Academy
References
Notes
- ^ Even possessing a single sanatorium was a pioneering development at the time.[8]
- ^ Hampshire County Council says that Laura, the wife of William Foster, ran the school for seven years after his death and that her own death then caused control to pass to her son, Montagu;[6] a court report of 1883 says that Montagu took over on the death of his father.[10] Leinster-Mackay agrees with the court report but puts the year as 1865.[3]
- ^ Montagu Henry Foster had at least one elder brother: the death of Major W. J. Foster, the eldest son, was announced in The Times in November 1910.[11] The youngest daughter of William and Laura Foster, Mary Caroline Foster, married Arthur Percy Douglas. Douglas was himself involved with the Royal Navy and became Under Secretary for Defence, New Zealand, 1895–1903, as well as being the fifth baronet of the Douglas of Carr line.[12][13]
- RAMC was announced in February 1918.[21]
Citations
- ^ "EduBase - Stubbington House School". Department for Education. Retrieved 5 December 2012.
- ^ a b c d "The History of the Crofton Community Centre". Crofton Community Centre. Retrieved 30 November 2012.
The village of Stubbington, in which the Centre is located, itself goes back a long way; its parish church at Crofton being mentioned in the Doomsday Book. More recently, it was where Stubbington House School educated fee-paying boys from age 8 to 18 years. They were prepared for Oxford and Cambridge, public schools and the armed forces, primarily the Royal Navy. Indeed the school was well known as 'The cradle of the Navy'. Its school outfitters were in London and its boys were not allowed to mix with 'the locals'.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-905273-74-7.
- ^ "Foster, William (FSTR819W)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ISBN 9780719025174.
- ^ a b c d e f "Stubbington House, Stubbington". Hampshire County Council. Retrieved 30 November 2012.
- ^ a b Douglas, Sir George Brisbane (1905). The life of Major-General Wauchope. Hodder and Stoughton. p. 25.
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- ^ "Deaths". The Times. London, England. 20 July 1866. p. 1. (subscription required)
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- ^ "Deaths". The Times. London. 22 November 1910. p. 1. (subscription required)
- ^ "DOUGLAS, Sir Arthur Percy". Who Was Who. A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press. December 2007. (subscription required)
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- ^ "Mr. Montagu Foster". The Times. London. 11 April 1913. p. 9. (subscription required)
- ^ a b "Deaths". The Times. London. 16 July 1913. p. 11. (subscription required)
- ^ "FOSTER, Gen. Sir Richard Foster Carter". Who Was Who. A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press. December 2007. (subscription required)
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- ^ "Marriages". The Times. London. 2 February 1918. p. 9. (subscription required)
- ^ "Foster, Montagu Richard William (FSTR888MR)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ "Legal Notices". The Times. London. 18 June 1930. p. 3. (subscription required)
- ^ a b "Obituary: H. R, M. Foster". The Times. 1 August 1959. p. 8. (subscription required)
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- ^ "English school uniform: individual schools -- Earleywood Prep School". Historical Boys' Clothing. Retrieved 5 December 2012.
Earleywood Prep School was a family-run prep school located at Ascot. We are not sure when the school was founded. It appears to have been some time in the late-19th century. We do notknow what happened during the Second World War. We know it was thriving in the 1940s after the War. Apparentlly the school was amalgamated with Stubbington School, another Ascot prep school, in the 1960s.
- ^ Reid, Alex. "Life Story of Philip Henry Stewart Reid: Earleywood School". Alex Reid. Retrieved 5 December 2012.
The school buildings, designed and built for the present Principals in 1902, are situated near Ascot on the well-known 'Bagshot Sands' in a high and bracing locality.
- ^ "BFI - Film & TV Database - EARLEYWOOD SCHOOL, ASCOT, 1946". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 23 April 2013. Retrieved 5 December 2012.
- ^ "Stubbington House School". Department for Education. Retrieved 3 December 2012.
- ^ "Stubbington House Earleywood Limited". Duedil. Retrieved 5 December 2012.
- ^ "Stubbington House, Stubbington". Retrieved 30 November 2012.
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Further reading
- Prestidge, Colin (1996). A History of Stubbington. Warsash Press.