In 1893 the Acting Superintendent of the old Snow Fields Ragged School.
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Peter Hill
Elizabethan seafarer. With Robert Bell he co-founded the St Mary Rotherhithe Free School, to educate the sons of local seafarers.
Homerton College
Originally created to educate Calvinist ministers, as non-conformists were banned from attending Oxbridge colleges. Its first meetings were held in a public house at the Royal Exchange until 1768 w...
Nightingale Nurse Training School
In full, the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care. The world's first nursing school to be continuously connected to a fully serving hospital (St Thomas's) and me...
London Oratory
Popularly known as the Brompton Oratory. Founded the year after Cardinal Newman established the Birmingham Oratory.
Tobias Matthay
Teacher and pianist. Born Clapham. 1903 he published "The Act of Touch" a book on piano playing technique and learning. This and other books and his Tobias Matthay Pianoforte School in Oxford St...