Reference
AU10/80/5
Title
Letter from Edward Fielder in West Kilburn [Middlesex] to Andrew Underwood:
- the writer remembered geo Ferraby being prosecuted for caning a boy too severely as he was a pupil teacher with Herbert Studman at the time, the boy's name was Welch and he was shut in a classroom over lunch but escaped through a window; the case against Ferraby was dismissed;
- two boys, including a Joe Smith, in the writer's class were caught trespassing by William Lowther;
- Lord Chief Justice Parke was at one time Lord Chancellor [not correct] and had piercing black eyes, he wrote a book on English law;
- Charles Riddle for many years headmaster of the British School in Woburn Road, the writer's eldest brother attended, when Rev.le Boeuf left Ampthill School Riddle was appointed headmaster until a Mr.Cox [Charles Henry Cock] took over, he also kept a shop in the town [a "fancy repository" in the Market Place] and was first chairman of Ampthill Urban District Council;
- John, 6th Duke of Bedford was a great benefactor of the British School movement, his son laid the foundation of a British School near Richmond Park [Surrey]
Date free text
3 Oct 1956
Production date
From: 1860 To: 1956
Level of description
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