Byron House School


Byron House School was an independent preparatory school in Highgate, London.

History

Byron House was founded in 1897 as a progressive prep school "favoured by London's intelligentsia and famous for its advanced teaching methods". Stephen Hawking, while attending the school, complained to his parents that he wasn't learning anything. Hawking later blamed its "progressive methods" for his failure to learn to read "until the fairly late age of eight".
In 1939, pupils were evacuated to Cambridge and between 1940 and 1944, 24 children from Byron House were evacuated to Ottawa, Canada.
John Betjeman was taught by T. S. Eliot at Byron House, before being sent to the Dragon School in Oxford.

Notable former pupils