Herne House School

Herne House School was a minor private boarding school for boys based in Margate, Kent, England, founded at the end of the 19th century and which was only open for a very short period.[1]

History

The school was founded by William Taylor Jones who was educated at Cambridge. The school was first sited in Arthur Road, Margate and later The Eastern Esplanade and opened about 1881. Jones’ 36-year-old cousin Ellen Taylor was employed as a housekeeper. The peak enrolment for Herne House was 64 in 1891.[1]

Notable alumni

Amongst the 31 pupils, was John William Dibdin Heseltine aged eight whose father was a tea merchant trading as William Heseltine & Son Ltd and living in Anson Road, Islington. Financial problems led to the close of the business in 1889 and his father's suicide. John later married Marie Berthe Lefauvre and they became the grandparents of Michael Heseltine a notable Conservative cabinet minister in Margaret Thatcher’s government.[1]

Another notable pupil was Louis Napoleon George Filon FRS,[2][3] a notable applied mathematician and later Vice-Chancellor of London University from 1933-1935.

References

  1. 1 2 3 Family History - Rev W T Jones, accessed 24 February 2013
  2. ↑ Jeffery, G. B. (1939). "Louis Napoleon George Filon. 1875-1937". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 2 (7): 500–526. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1939.0010.
  3. ↑ "Filon, Louis Napoleon George (1875–1937) G. B. Jeffery". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. OUP. 2004. Retrieved 22 August 2012.
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