Montpelier & Clifton Hill

Wilmot’s Illustrated Map of Brighton and its Vicinity c1851. © Royal Pavilion & Museums, Brighton & Hove ...

Henry Michell Wagner (1792 - 1870) Henry Michell Wagner's new vicarage, Montpelier Road ...

Mary Hare (1865-1945)   Blue plaque 17 St Michael's Place Although the life and work of Mary Adelaide Hare has been thoroughly documented...

Rising northwards from the eastern end of Western Road, this largely residential area extends to Seven Dials to the north and is bounded...

Revd George Wagner (1818 - 1857) St Stephen's National Schools c. 1860 This fine knapped flint building, now Grade II listed and...

Robert Clifton Foreman MD MRCS (1821 – 1865) Wilmot’s Illustrated Map of Brighton and its Vicinity c1851. Royal Pavilion & Museums, Brighton & Hove Disclaimer.  This article contains language we would not use today. Recognition of shifting vocabulary can, though, be key to interpreting positive changes in understanding and attitudes. It is for the reader to decide whether this is the case here.   In 1822, when Dyke Road was known as Church Hill, the tranche of land

Home for Invalid Children 70 Montpelier Road in 2024 Elizabeth Ann Freeman (1812 – 1891) The remit of Stevenage-born Robert Lee’s “select boarding school for young gentlemen” at 26 Regency Square was to prepare pupils for the public schools. In 1845, when the freeholder sought to sell the property, the school moved to the healthy heights of 70 Montpelier Road. The 1851 Census records just eight resident pupils, which was possibly unviable. At any rate, Lee's school disappears

Marriage Wallis (1821 - 1897) This splendid detached and recently Locally Listed Italianate villa on the corner of Dyke Road and Clifton...

Thomas Rickard (c. 1788 - 1847) Henry Stein Turrell (1815 – 1863) Thomas Rickard From at least 1822, Thomas Rickard kept a boys’ boarding...

Revd Robert Louis Koe (1819 - 1902) In the mid-1870s, Revd Koe, Her Majesty’s Inspector of Schools (HMI), moved into 11 St Michael’s...

William Randall Lee's gentleman's boarding school  This is the northern end of Norfolk Terrace, a photo probably dating from the late 1850s when the southern end of the Terrace was still under construction. From around 1856, Mr and Mrs Lee’s ‘preparatory boarding school’ for boys occupied the handsome double fronted property, 8 Norfolk Terrace (see arrow). Earlier in the 1850s, the neighbouring property, number 9, had operated as Miss Montague’s ladies’ school, which continu

Sir Richard Phillips (1767 – 1840) This substantial tomb with its somewhat wordy inscription is that of Sir Richard Phillips. It can be...

After Turrell died, Revd BW Harvey took responsibility for Western College for a couple of years to be succeeded by William Porter Knightley

Between 1845 and 1880, 75 Montpelier Road – then known as Milton Hall – was home to three private schools in succession.