Grove House School was a Quaker school in Tottenham

Tottenham

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, United Kingdom.

The school was established in 1828 as a boarding school for boys of the Quaker community, initially under Thomas Binns. One of its founders was Josiah Forster

Josiah Forster

Josiah Forster was a teacher and philanthropist. He was an early member of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society in 1839 and a supporter of the British and Foreign Bible Society. Both he and his wife were senior figures in the British Quakers.-Biography:Forster was born in 1782...

, 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 Anglican orders. It was located on the south side of Tottenham Green

Tottenham Green

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 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 and is now part of Middlesex University

Middlesex University

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.

In 1890, the Quakers were to found another school in Reading

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, Leighton Park School

Leighton Park School

Leighton Park School is a co-educational Quaker independent school for both day and boarding pupils. It is situated in the large town of Reading in Berkshire, in South East England...

, following on from this school and in recognition of the earlier connection, the second boarding house was named Grove House, which took its name from a re-foundation of Grove School, on an adjacent site which was absorbed into Leighton Park. Grove House is a work by architect Alfred Waterhouse

Alfred Waterhouse

Alfred Waterhouse was a British architect, particularly associated with the Victorian Gothic Revival architecture. He is perhaps best known for his design for the Natural History Museum in London, and Manchester Town Hall, although he also built a wide variety of other buildings throughout the...

, who had attended the original Grove House School.

Alumni

In addition to Waterhouse William Edward Forster

William Edward Forster

William Edward Forster PC, FRS was an English industrialist, philanthropist and Liberal Party statesman.-Early life:...

, Liberal statesman and businessman whose 1870 Act introduced compulsory primary education, Thomas Hodgkin

Thomas Hodgkin

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, physician, Edward Burnett Tylor

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, anthropologist, John Henry Shorthouse, author, Joseph Lister

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, surgeon

Surgeon

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, Arthur Pease, MP

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, George Stacey Albright, a director of Albright and Wilson

Albright and Wilson

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, Henry Head

Henry Head

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, neurosurgeon, and Alexander Peckover, banker.