Hillbrow School was an English boys' preparatory school established in 1859 in the Midland town of Rugby. The founder was John William Joseph Vecquerary, a Prussian by birth, who had been recently recruited as a modern languages master at Rugby School, to which it was a feeder school, although he remained in post at Rugby.[1] In 1870 the school moved to a purpose-built building on Barby Road.[2]
The name Hillbrow, taken from the name of the building erected to house the school, was in use by the time of his successor, Thomas Bainbridge Eden, who according to Duncan Grant, one of its most famous pupils, ran "a Spartan institution with only about forty pupils".[3] Eden was asked to leave as head in 1908 following a scandal about his sexual interest in his pupils.[4]
^Leinster-Mackay, Donald P. (1984). The rise of the English prep school. Falmer Press.
^"THE ORIGINS OF HILLBROW SCHOOL IN RUGBY". Our Warwickshire. Retrieved 20 August 2020.
^Frances Spalding (1997). Duncan Grant, A Biography. Random House UK. ISBN 0-7126-6640-0.
^Jean Moorcroft Wilson (9 August 2018). Robert Graves: From Great War Poet to Good-bye to All That (1895-1929). Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 47–. ISBN 978-1-4729-2916-7. Retrieved 20 January 2019.
HillbrowSchool was an English boys' preparatory school established in 1859 in the Midland town of Rugby. The founder was John William Joseph Vecquerary...
preparatory school, known as HillbrowSchool, named after the house where it had originally been established near Rugby School in the Midlands. Hillbrow by then...
his governess, Alice Bates. Along with Rupert Brooke, Grant attended HillbrowSchool, Rugby, 1894–99, where he received lessons from an art teacher and...
of six preparatory schools, including King's College School in Wimbledon, Penrallt in Wales, HillbrowSchool in Rugby, Rokeby School in Wimbledon and Copthorne...
in the deprived inner city area of Hillbrow, a place where he later set his first novel. Welcome to Our Hillbrow was an important work as it was the...
a Member of the Dominion Parliament of Canada. He was educated at HillbrowSchool in Rugby, Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read...
use as a school. Today, the school is known as Barnato Park High School, a dynamic, co-educational institution that attracts pupils from Hillbrow, Beara...
the gold standard.[citation needed] In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Hillbrow went high-rise. In the 1950s and early 1960s, the apartheid government...
Aldwyncle. Parktown Boys' High SchoolSchool built 1922 designed by P W D (Cleland), Deutsche Schule Johannesburg opened in Hillbrow in 1890 moved to Parktown...
west of the north–south section of Houghton Drive (bordering Parktown and Hillbrow). Houghton is surrounded by wealthy suburbs in all directions, except south...
and gender within the South African context." De Villiers was born at Hillbrow in Johannesburg, South Africa, where she spent the first months of her...
love for story telling grew, she began to perform in school plays and in the local Yeovill, Hillbrow and Berea area. In 2001, Petronella moved to the United...
degree, and moved to Johannesburg where he settled in an apartment in Hillbrow. Here he was involved in a lot of different fringe churches and religious...
inner city. The suburbs close to the CBD, in particular Joubert Park, Hillbrow, and Berea, have a large number of high-rise apartment blocks. These areas...
density levels is somewhat comparable to nearby Hillbrow. Yeoville is home to Yeoville Boys Primary School, Yeoville Market and Yeoville recreational centre...
reputable schools. They include the government school Fourways High School in Greater Fourways (grades 8-12), the private Crawford schools: Pre-Primary...
of apartheid. The Gay Association of South Africa (GASA), based in the Hillbrow district in central Johannesburg, was a predominantly white organisation...
(1891–1915). Brooke attended preparatory (prep) school locally at Hillbrow, and then went on to Rugby School. At Rugby, he was romantically involved with...
author Phaswane Mpe's 2001 novel Welcome to Our Hillbrow, the protagonist Refentse moves to Hillbrow, a place devoid of a history and shared values or...
illicit activity. In South Africa, the most prominent urban decay case is Hillbrow, an inner-city neighborhood of Johannesburg which was formerly affluent...
of Medicine moved to Esselen Street, in the Hillbrow district of Johannesburg. In 1968, the Graduate School of Business was opened in Parktown. A year...
Christian School Rand Park Primary School Risidale Primary School Spark schools Blairgowrie and Ferndale St Stithians College (Preparatory school) The Lanseria...
and Official Secrets. Hood was born in Johannesburg and grew up in the Hillbrow area. He is the son of the English-born South African retailer Gordon Hood...
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