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Blackheath Proprietary School

Established to give its pupils an education similar to that of the public schools. It was so called as it was owned by a group of a hundred share holding proprietors who could send or nominate a pu...

Building, Education

Lieutenant Walter Leonard Elliott

Walter Leonard Elliott was born on 30 November 1891 in Shepherds Bush, London, the second of the four children of Frederick Elliot (1857-1940) and Harriett Elliot née Green (1861-1934). His birth w...

Person, Armed Forces, Education, France

Thomas Huxley

Thomas Henry Huxley. Biologist and anthropologist. Born Ealing.  An early adherent to Darwin's theory of evolution, he was a strong supporter while also pointing out what he saw as flaws.  At the R...

Person, Education, Race Issues, Science

Central School of Speech and Drama

Group, Cinema, Education, Theatre

Anne Winifrede O'Reilly

Schoolteacher. Headteacher at Peckham Emergency Central School, 1940 - 46, and the first head at Walworth's first comprehensive school, 1947 - 55, when she retired.   Founding member of the All En...

Person, Education, Politics & Administration