Hawtreys

Hawtreys

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name = Hawtreys School


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established = 1869
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type = Independent preparatory school
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founder = Reverend John Hawtrey
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city = Slough, later Westgate-on-Sea, then Oswestry, and lastly Great Bedwyn,
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Hawtreys Preparatory School was an independent boys' preparatory school, first established in Slough, later moved to Westgate-on-Sea, then to Oswestry, and finally to a country house near Great Bedwyn, Wiltshire. In its early years it was known as St Michael's School.

In the 1990s, the school merged with Cheam School, near Newbury, Berkshire.

History

The school was founded in 1869 by the Reverend John Hawtrey. He had been a boy at Eton, from the age of eight. In later life he became a master at Eton and was offered his own house of boys. He decided to remove all of the younger boys from the school. With the permission of Eton College, he took the lowest two forms out to a separate school in Slough and housed them in what is now St Bernard's Catholic Grammar School, Slough. This was known as St Michael's School, and was opened on 29 September 1869, (St Michael's day).

John Hawtrey's son, Edward, removed the school to Westgate-on-Sea early in 1883. [p 94, "The History of Slough", Maxwell Fraser, Slough Corporation, 1973] When Edward Hawtrey died, the name of the school was changed to Hawtreys. The school buildings were requisitioned during the Second World War and the school moved to Oswestry, to the home of Sir William Wynn-Williams. In 1946 it moved to Tottenham House, a large Palladian country house near the village of Great Bedwyn, Wiltshire, in the heart of the Savernake Forest.

Throughout the history of the school, a close connection was maintained with Eton College to which many boys moved at the age of thirteen.

In the 1990s, the school merged with Cheam School, near Newbury, Berkshire, which is formally called "Cheam Hawtreys", but generally known simply as "Cheam".

Notable old boys

*Detmar Blow (1867–1939), architect
*Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley KG PC (1867–1947), British prime minister
* Field Marshal Lord Alexander (1891–1969)
*Oliver Messel (1904–1978), artist and stage designer
*Sir Peter O'Sullevan (born 1918), BBC racing commentator
*Sir Anthony Rupert Milburn, 5th Baronet (born 1947), landowner [ [http://www.xreferplus.com/entry.jsp?xrefid=6106601 MILBURN, Sir Anthony (Rupert), 5th Bt cr 1905] in Who's Who online at xreferplus.com (accessed 28 November 2007)]
*Sir Euan Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe, 3rd Baronet (born 1966), property manager [ [http://www.xreferplus.com/entry.jsp?xrefid=6083464 ANSTRUTHER-GOUGH-CALTHORPE, Sir Euan (Hamilton), 3rd Bt cr 1929] in Who's Who online at xreferplus.com (accessed 28 November 2007)]
*Zac Goldsmith (born 1975), environmentalist and editor of "The Ecologist"
*Kim Brassey (born 1955), racehorse trainer

References

* [http://gen.culpepper.com/archives/uk/places/henry8.htm Henry VIII Houses]
* [http://www.cheamschool.com/ Cheam School] - official site

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