Montpelier & Clifton Hill

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

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

Thomas Rickard (c. 1788 - 1847) Henry Stein Turrell (1815 – 1863) Thomas Rickard From at least 1822, Thomas Rickard kept a boys’ boarding school at 35 West Street. In 1823, he purchased from Thomas Read Kemp a large stretch of land to the east of Montpelier Road and immediately north of Lady Gosford’s house and garden (where Waitrose stands today), and moved his school there. A plan dated 1825 names “Mr Rickard’s school” but there is no sign of a building. Pigot Smith’s m

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