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Wixenford School, also known as Wixenford Preparatory School and Wixenford-Eversley, was a private preparatory school for boys near Wokingham, founded in 1869. A feeder school for Eton, after it closed in 1934 its former buildings were taken over by the present-day Ludgrove School .
Ludgrove School. Fortnightly boarding for boys aged 8-13 years old. Explore. The Ludgrove School Foundation. Latest News. Read More. Fair going for Ludgrove's Annual Parents & Sons Golf Day. Ludgrove’s golfers managed to avoid the weather to enjoy the Annual Parents & Sons competition for the Years 7 and 8.
Richard Cowley Powles (1819–1901), known often as Cowley Powles, was an English cleric, academic and founding headmaster of Wixenford School.
Wixenford School, Wokingham. This page summarises records created by this Organisation. The summary includes a brief description of the collection (s) (usually including the covering dates of...
Wixenford is an area of the civil parish of Wokingham Without in which Ludgrove School stands. It adjoins Wokingham and is in the English county of Berkshire. Name. The area was developed by the former Wixenford School, which closed in 1934.
There has been a school on the site of St Neot's since 1869 when the Reverend Richard Powles, a childhood friend of Charles Kingsley, leased the newly built Wixenford House and opened it as a boys' boarding school. Wixenford School remained in Eversley until 1887 when Mr Ernest Arnold, headmaster at the time, had a disagreement with his ...
He was educated at Magdalen College School, Oxford and Warwick University. He spent eight years as an officer in the British Army until changing to a career in teaching. He was headmaster of Cothill House (2003 – 2011) and ran an outreach programme with the Cothill Trust and the Natural History Museum before a brief stint as the Principal of the Cothill Trust.
