Grove House School was a

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school in

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, United Kingdom.

School

The school was established in 1828 as a boarding school for 75 boys of the Quaker community, initially under Thomas Binns. One of its founders was Josiah Forster, who had attended the Quaker school his grandfather had founded in 1752, Forster's School, also in Tottenham. Its curriculum was advanced for its time, and it did not use corporal punishment. After languishing around 1850, it was enlarged by Arthur Robert Abbott, who admitted non-Quaker boys but after buying the school in 1877, closed it, and took

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orders. It was located on the south side of 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,

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as a direct descendant of Grove House. Following on from Grove House and in recognition of the earlier foundation of the school, the first senior Boarding House at

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was named Grove House. ''Grove House'' is a work by architect

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, who had attended the original Grove House School. Many families from Grove House continued the connection and sent their boys to

, such as the Cadburys, Foxes, Frys, Backhouses and Hodgkins.

Alumni

* Josiah Forster (1782-1870), Headmaster of Grove House School, anti-slavery campaigner * Joseph Pease (railway pioneer) (1799-1872), first Quaker MP permitted to take his seat in parliament * William Henry Leatham (1815-1889), banker and MP *

William Edward Forster William Edward Forster, PC, FRS (11 July 18185 April 1886) was an English industrialist, philanthropist and Liberal Party statesman. His supposed advocacy of the Irish Constabulary's use of lethal force against the National Land League ea ...

(1818-1886), Liberal statesman and businessman whose 1870 Act introduced compulsory primary education *

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(1819-1890), banker, MP and

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Edmund Backhouse (MP) Edmund Backhouse (1824 – 7 June 1906), banker, J.P. on the County Durham and for the North Riding of Yorkshire benches. He was Member of Parliament for Darlington. Family He was the youngest son of Jonathan Backhouse (1779–1842), ban ...

(1824-1906), MP *

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(1827-1912),

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Sir Robert Fowler, 1st Baronet Sir Robert Nicholas Fowler, 1st Baronet DL JP (12 September 1828, Tottenham, Middlesex – 22 May 1891 Harley Street, London) was a member of parliament and Lord Mayor of London. He was born the son of Thomas Fowler of Gastard, Wiltshire. H ...

(1828-1891), MP *

Alexander Peckover, 1st Baron Peckover Alexander Peckover, 1st Baron Peckover LL FRGS, FSA, FLS (16 August 1830 – 21 October 1919), was an English Quaker banker, philanthropist and collector of ancient manuscripts. Early years Peckover was born at Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, the s ...

(1830-1919), banker *

(1830-1905), architect *

Thomas Hodgkin Thomas Hodgkin RMS (17 August 1798 – 5 April 1866) was a British physician, considered one of the most prominent pathologists of his time and a pioneer in preventive medicine. He is now best known for the first account of Hodgkin's disease, ...

(1831-1913), physician *

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(1832-1917), anthropologist *

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(1834-1903), author * Arthur Pease (1837-1898), MP *

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(1849-1925), surgeon *

William Leatham Bright William Leatham Bright (12 August 1851 – 23 September 1910) was an English Liberal politician. Bright was the son of John Bright, M.P., of One Ash, Rochdale and his wife Margaret Elizabeth Leatham. They employed Lydia Rous to teach their child ...

(1851-1910), MP * George Stacey Albright (1855-1945), a director of

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* 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 Joseph Albert Pease, 1st Baron Gainford (17 January 1860 – 15 February 1943), known as Jack Pease, was a British businessman and Liberal politician. He was a member of H. H. Asquith's Liberal cabinet between 1910 and 1916 and also served ...

(1860-1943), MP and Chairman of the BBC * William Somervell (1860-1934), MP and Chairman of K Shoes * Henry Head (1861-1940), neurosurgeon

References

External links

History of Quaker Education
{{authority control Defunct schools in the London Borough of Haringey Christianity in London Quaker schools in England Educational institutions established in 1828 Boys' schools in London 1828 establishments in England Educational institutions disestablished in 1877 1870s disestablishments in England