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Brighton 1904-1920
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Lichfield 1940-1944
Nassau 1940-1944
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Hassocks 1954-1972
Post Closure 1972-
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 HISTORY: Brighton, 1904-1920 |
The School was founded in 1904 by Mr GL Evans (Eton
and Corpus Christi College, Oxford). Gilbert Luxmoore Evans was a
King's Scholar at Eton from 1879-85. He was a “Newcastle Select” (i.e.
on the short list for the Newcastle Medal, Eton 's most prestigious
classical award) in both 1884 and 1885. After Oxford , he was a Master
at a school in Crowborough , Sussex , before founding Belmont. [See photo of Evans family group].
He
and his wife, who taught Art although she was a semi-invalid in her
later years at the School, were known as Mr and Mrs E. Mr E retired
in 1934, at the age of 68, and died in 1946, aged 80 - [see photo of his retirement letter].
The
original site was a house in a cul de sac off Dyke Road in
Brighton, from which the school took its name. It is described as a "small
day school with a few boarders." Another prep school, Prestonville,
later occupied a nearby house in the same block.
The school
colours, Eton blue and black, were almost certainly chosen
because of Mr Evans's school allegiance. The Belmont cap was similar
to the Eton XXII cricket cap
Mr Cuthbert S Jeffries (St Edward's, Oxford and St John's
, Oxford ), known as Mr J, joined the staff in 1910. He was a bachelor
and lived in the School. He fought in the First World War and suffered
from shell-shock and the after-effects of mustard gas.
There were 34 boys in the school in 1910 |
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