Harrow School

She was an only child. According to William Maxwell (an editor of her letters, to whom she dictated notes in 1966), her birth was marked by what amounted to portents. Her mother went into labour...

His education began in earnest with attendance at Aberdeen grammar school, from which, via a small private school in Dulwich, he made the transition to Harrow School and then to Trinity College, Cambridge .

Back from continental Europe, Gertrude and her sister Mary were educated by governesses at home, while their brother received his schooling in England, at Harrow . Although the girls' lessons consisted of the usual singing...

AT attended first Harrow School (where, though he was too young for the regular intake, he had a free place because his father had bought a house in the district), then a private school in...

Flora was encouraged to continue her education for herself in books, sketching, and the piano. Her singing was later admired by the music master of Harrow School (which her brothers attended), and she created miniature...

John Montagu Orczy Barstow , or Jack, born in 1899, was educated at a prep school and then at Harrow , where, his mother says, he never won a prize. His parents would console him...

In 1895 Robert was awarded a scholarship to attend Harrow and study the classics. After an undistinguished career there, he went on to Oxford , where he became an amateur boxer. Later he aspired to...

Before she was twenty STW embarked on a lengthy affair with distinguished musicologist Dr Percy Buck , music master at Harrow School , which lasted until 1930.

MS supported herself and Percy Florence through her writing—novels and journalism—and editing. He, through her earnings, was educated at Harrow School and Cambridge University . She also supported her aging father until his death in 1836.

Mary Jane (later Jean) Middlemass began to write at an early age, in a privately circulated magazine printed by her father . Other contributors were her brothers, and some of their classmates from Harrow School .

The book was attacked on its appearance as anti-Christian, in an open letter to the press, signed by most of the Establishment including both English archbishops and the headmasters of Eton and Harrow . NM

MS lived in Portman Square, London; she then moved to Harrow, so that her son, who had entered Harrow School , should not have to board (and pay extra fees).

In 1855, after the death of Annie's father and of her younger brother Alfred, her mother moved with the remaining children to Harrow. There she boarded Harrow School boys to support herself and to...

AG wrote another wonder playAristotle's Bellows, first produced by the Abbey Theatre Company on 17 March 1921, as well as a children's play, The Jester, written at her grandson's request to be...

As a child, Georgiana Spencer wrote poems, stories, and playlets for family performance, about heroines in need of rescue. When her brother went to Harrow she wrote him verse letters which he passed round among...