Hill Brow Preparatory School for Boys

Hill Brow School - Brent Knoll
Preparatory School for Boys
by Chris Newman (contact: cje.newman@gmail.com)

The first edition of "A Brief History of Hill Brow School" was published in 2014, and comprised 244 A4 pages. .

A longer second edition (ISBN 9781645 169949) was pubished in 2020 filling 356 A4 pages.

A third edition filling 365 pages was made available for on-line distribution in November 2021. In addition to minor corrections to the second edition, it contained three main updates as follows:

Photos from M.S.K. Maunsell dating from c.1920~1924 (with thanks to his son Cark Maunsell).
Anecdotes from Sir Richard Gibbs [HBS 1948-1955].
A short note about Bill Foxton [HBS 1954-1957] in the Alumni Anecdotes (with thanks to Peter Isaac).
An obituary to John Matthews’ brother, David Napier Matthews, added as Addendum 5 (with thanks again to Peter Isaac).

A fourth edition filling 369 pages was published in October 2023. It contains the following updates:

A school photo from around 1908 has been added thanks to Adam Suddaby, grandson of Alexander Lockhart Elsworthy who attended the school from around 1902 to around 1908.
A summary of Alexander Elsworthy’s life has been added to the Alumni Anecdotes.

A printed copy of this fourth edition may be purchased "at cost" for £15 plus postage from Chris Newman at cje.newman@gmail.com. Alternatively a PDF copy of the book can be downloaded by clicking HERE. Unless you've changed your downloads settings, it should download automatically into your "Downloads" folder. The file is large (236MB) so may take a few minutes to download.

Note: If anyone can help by providing additional information, photos, anecdotes or memorabilia relating to Hill Brow School, then please let me know by emailing me at cje.newman@gmail.com.