The History of Wandsworth Common

Edward Thomas at St Paul's School

Childhood: Complete Text.

School 1: Belleville.

School 2: Halbrake or St John's Hill House School.

School 3: Battersea Grammar or Sir Walter St John's.

School 4: St Paul's.

Do any boys go to St Paul's from round here any longer? But it seems to have been quite common at the end of the C19 and before WWI. PY Betts's [People Who Say Goodbye] "very superior" brother [name?] went, and one of his contemporaries was the head boy, ?? Buchanan. Where did the Buchanans live - Routh Road? Baskerville? Any relation to the monumental masons the Buchanans? PY herself went to St Paul's Girls. At that time both schools were in Hammersmith - the school didn't move south of the river until ??

Notes

"Edward Thomas was educated at Battersea Grammar School and St Paul’s School before going up to Oxford to read History. At St Paul’s a fellow pupil remembered him as a boy of grave and reserved demeanour, who habitually kept small animals and snakes in his pockets, and gave them the run of the inside of his desk during school hours." https://warpoets.org.uk/worldwar1/poets-and-poetry/edward-thomas/

Typescript for talk "Edward Thomas at St Paul's School" by Bryan Robson, Head of English at St Paul's School

Intriguing! Was it ever published in the Fellowship Newsletter?

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