Working Men's College
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The Working Men's College- WMC, being among the earliest adult education
institutions established in the United Kingdom, is Europe's oldest extant centre for adult education
and perhaps one of its smallest. The name is now often abbreviated to WMC.
for Victorian skilled artisans to counter what its founders saw as the failings in practice of the social theory of Associationism
. The founding of the College was also partially a response to concerns about the revolutionary potential of the Chartist Movement. Its early protagonists were also closely associated with the Co-operative Movement and labour organisations.
The College's founders – a view reached in 1904 – were Frederick Denison Maurice, (the first principal), Thomas Hughes
(author of Tom Brown's Schooldays
), John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow, Frederick James Furnivall
, Lowes Cato Dickinson
, John Westlake
, Richard Buckley Litchfield
and John Llewelyn Davies
. Notable early promoters and supporters of the College and its foundation were, Edward Vansittart Neale
, Dante Gabriel Rossetti
, John Ruskin
, Charles Blachford Mansfield,John Stuart Mill
, and Charles Kingsley
, (author of The Water-Babies), while later including G.M. Trevelyan, E. M. Forster
, C.E.M. Joad and Seamus Heaney
Frederick Denison Maurice with Frances Martin helped to set up the Working Women's College in 1874, later to be called The Frances Martin College. This sister college, through financial and organisational difficulties, eventually ran its courses for women at The Working Men's College, and later this in name only as it, and its associated charity, had become unviable. The College's charitable funds were absorbed into those of The Working Men's College, and The Frances Martin College ceased to exist in 1967. Around this time, in 1965, The Working Men's College admitted female students for the first time.
The decision to admit women was an expression of what was seen by the College as its unique and progressive historic feature: educational and financial management through a democratically elected Council of teachers and students. Teachers, (who were unpaid volunteer professionals in their field,) and students were both considered as, and called, Members of College as a mark of equality and respect. This educational and management tradition, seen as being in the spirit of a liberal education that promotes values and responsible civic behaviour, and being a direct link to the founders' concern over the failure of Associationism, lasted until the mid–1990s. Sir Wilfred Griffin Eady
, principal of the College from 1949 to 1955, defined Liberal Education, the raison d'etre of the College, as "something you can enjoy for its own sake, something which is a personal possession and an inward enrichment, and something which teaches a sense of values".
During the 1970s the College introduced and increased a number of certificated
courses, and by the beginning of the 1980s there were successful moves to change the voluntary tradition by remunerating teachers. This led to a drain on the financial
reserves of the College. Where previously it supported itself mostly from interest on donations as investments, by the late 1980s it felt obliged to seek government financial aid.
In 1996–97, the governance of the college was changed. Before the change, two bodies regulated college under Articles of Association
and a Scheme of Management: a College Council of 12 teachers and 12 students elected by members of college, and a College Corporation of 16 members self-appointed. Council directed education and finance policy through its committees, and elected college officers: the Principal, Vice Principal, Dean of Studies
, Bursar
and Librarian
. Corporation managed college charitable trust funds and provided for asset maintenance and part-finance for courses; it was composed largely of lawyers, bankers and businessmen thought capable of managing and extending charitable funding from the private sector. Both bodies and their officers were voluntary. Before 1996, an administrative staff of Warden
, Deputy Warden, Financial Controller, and College Secretary ran the College day-to-day, managing a small number of part-time reception and maintenance staff. After legal advice, and representations to the Charity Commission, Corporation introduced a new Scheme of Management that dissolved Council, and created a self-appointed governing Board of 21 members to decide policy and oversee what became an enlarged paid management. Forceful argument on the change was made on both sides. Seeing Liberal Education’s civic
values and democratic control as being relevant was a view opposed by one that saw different management method being needed for financial and educational viability.
, later moving to Great Ormond Streetin 1857, both in Central London. In 1905 it located to its new Crowndale Road building in the borough
of St Pancras, London
, now part of The London Borough of Camden
. This new home had been designed by W. D. Caroe. Since 1964 the building has been Grade II listed.
Foundation stone of the Working Men's College, Camden. Inscription reads:
The Prince of Wales mentioned later became George V of the United Kingdom
.
The idea of a new purpose-built College had been expressed in the late 1880s. By the 1890s, the demand for more space through increased student numbers, and competition from other institutions such as Evening Continuation Schools and Polytechnics, created a need for greater accommodation, and a desire for facilities such as a museum, gymnasium and chemistry laboratory. The College developed a new building at Crowndale Road on a site purchased from Lord Camden
; begun in July 1904, and partly occupied in 1905, it was formally opened by Sir William Anson in January 1906.
The physical structure of the building at Crowndale Road was designed to reflect that found within university colleges. Large common spaces, Library, Common Room, Hall, Museum, and later The Charles Wright Common Room, promoted social and intellectual
interaction between student, teacher and staff Members of College. There was no separate staff room
. Specialist rooms such as science laboratories
art and craft studios, lecture theatre
, and a gymnasium were added in the 1930s, reflecting a desire to provide a broad educational experience.
Principal in providing this experience was The Common Room. During the 20th century this room, with a Servery for refreshment, provided a focus for College Members meet, read, discuss, prepare for class, eat, and occasionally hold impromptu public debate
s. It was used as a meeting place for College societies and clubs. Over the years, the College held societies covering activities and subjects such as boxing, cricket, debating, economics, football
, geology, singing, chess, draughts, rowing
, history, natural history, old students, modern languages, language interpretation, railways, walking, sketching
, holidays, wireless
, music, and science. Regular social events were organised by a Common Room Committee. The room was the venue for one of the College’s most important functions
, The Furnivall Supper, provided by College founder F.J. Furnivall. The supper, a Christmas meal for old people of the district round the College, lasted as an event until the 1980s. Up to the late–1980s, a September Teachers’ Supper was held in The Common Room hosted by the Principal
; there was a talk from a guest speaker followed by debate.
The Maurice Hall, with its stage
and theatrical lighting, was used for College and outside-user social functions: dances, recitals by the College orchestra
, conferences
, outside speakers, theatrical performance, lectures, general College meetings, and for a yearly Lowes Dickinson Award art Exhibition.
The Museum has changed its use over the years, from schoolroom for private school
tenants to art studio. The room features a pastel
portrait of Lionel Jacob, (teacher, Vice Principal 1904–10.) It was re-designated in the early 1990s as the William Walker Room (William 'Paddy' Walker, student and Corporation member for 50 years).
The Gymnasium and The Charles Wright Room, were part of a 1936 building extension, through the demolition of two adjacent College-owned houses, funded by endowment funds, an Appeal Fund
, and the Board of Education
. The Gymnasium was an adjunct to new College playing fields at Canon’s Park, Edgware
, that were already used for physical training and sports. The introduction of gymnastics followed a "national interest
in physical training – stimulated by the efforts of the European dictatorships in this direction". The Charles Wright Room (Charles Wright, b.1855, College benefactor) was added as a second Common Room. Within this 1936 extension were two new science laboratories, one the Ellis Franklin Laboratory, (Ellis Franklin
, teacher, Vice Principal 1922–29,) and new flats for the College Secretary
and caretaker
.
and other administration
. The rear of the building was restructured, removing the original Servery, adding a new lift, and a cafeteria
with new library on two levels. The Charles Wright Common Room became management space. The gymnasium was converted for general use. The old Library remained, being listed; it kept its original purpose, and use as an occasional location for film
. The original Museum became a staff room.
In 2008, College provision was graded as "good" or "outstanding" by OFSTED
, and in 2009 it was awarded Beacon Status.
The Working Men's College remains one of the smallest adult education providers in the area.
Adult education
Adult education is the practice of teaching and educating adults. Adult education takes place in the workplace, through 'extension' school or 'school of continuing education' . Other learning places include folk high schools, community colleges, and lifelong learning centers...
institutions established in the United Kingdom, is Europe's oldest extant centre for adult education
Adult education
Adult education is the practice of teaching and educating adults. Adult education takes place in the workplace, through 'extension' school or 'school of continuing education' . Other learning places include folk high schools, community colleges, and lifelong learning centers...
and perhaps one of its smallest. The name is now often abbreviated to WMC.
History and background
Founded in 1854 the College was established by Christian Socialists to provide a liberal educationLiberal education
A Liberal education is a system or course of education suitable for the cultivation of a free human being. It is based on the medieval concept of the liberal arts or, more commonly now, the liberalism of the Age of Enlightenment...
for Victorian skilled artisans to counter what its founders saw as the failings in practice of the social theory of Associationism
Associationism
Associationism in philosophy refers to the idea that mental processes operate by the association of one state with its successor states.The idea is first recorded in Plato and Aristotle, especially with regard to the succession of memories....
. The founding of the College was also partially a response to concerns about the revolutionary potential of the Chartist Movement. Its early protagonists were also closely associated with the Co-operative Movement and labour organisations.
The College's founders – a view reached in 1904 – were Frederick Denison Maurice, (the first principal), Thomas Hughes
Thomas Hughes
Thomas Hughes was an English lawyer and author. He is most famous for his novel Tom Brown's Schooldays , a semi-autobiographical work set at Rugby School, which Hughes had attended. It had a lesser-known sequel, Tom Brown at Oxford .- Biography :Hughes was the second son of John Hughes, editor of...
(author of Tom Brown's Schooldays
Tom Brown's Schooldays
Tom Brown's Schooldays is a novel by Thomas Hughes. The story is set at Rugby School, a public school for boys, in the 1830s; Hughes attended Rugby School from 1834 to 1842...
), John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow, Frederick James Furnivall
Frederick James Furnivall
Frederick James Furnivall , one of the co-creators of the Oxford English Dictionary , was an English philologist...
, Lowes Cato Dickinson
Lowes Cato Dickinson
Lowes Cato Dickinson was a portrait painter and Christian socialist. He taught drawing with Ruskin and Rossetti. He was a founder of the Working Men's College in London.-Life:...
, John Westlake
John Westlake
John Westlake was an English law scholar, born at Lostwithiel, Cornwall, the son of a Cornish wool-stapler. He was educated at Lostwithiel and, from 1846, at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated BA in 1850...
, Richard Buckley Litchfield
Richard Buckley Litchfield
Richard Buckley Litchfield was a British scholar and philanthropist.-Life:R. B. Litchfield was the only son of Captain Richard Litchfield of Cheltenham, England. He was educated at Cheltenham College and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he became a friend of James Clerk Maxwell, and where he then...
and John Llewelyn Davies
Arthur Llewelyn Davies
Arthur Llewelyn Davies was a respected barrister, but is best known as the father of the boys who served as the inspiration for Peter Pan and the other children of J. M. Barrie's stories of Neverland...
. Notable early promoters and supporters of the College and its foundation were, Edward Vansittart Neale
Edward Vansittart Neale
Edward Vansittart Neale B.A. M.A. , was an English barrister, co-operator and Christian socialist.Neale was born in Bath, the son of Rev. Edward Vansittart of Taplow in Buckinghamshire. In 1828, after receiving early education at home, he entered Oriel College Oxford where he was tutored by J. H....
, Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Dante Gabriel Rossetti was an English poet, illustrator, painter and translator. He founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 with William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais, and was later to be the main inspiration for a second generation of artists and writers influenced by the movement,...
, John Ruskin
John Ruskin
John Ruskin was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, also an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He wrote on subjects ranging from geology to architecture, myth to ornithology, literature to education, and botany to political...
, Charles Blachford Mansfield,John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill was a British philosopher, economist and civil servant. An influential contributor to social theory, political theory, and political economy, his conception of liberty justified the freedom of the individual in opposition to unlimited state control. He was a proponent of...
, and Charles Kingsley
Charles Kingsley
Charles Kingsley was an English priest of the Church of England, university professor, historian and novelist, particularly associated with the West Country and northeast Hampshire.-Life and character:...
, (author of The Water-Babies), while later including G.M. Trevelyan, E. M. Forster
E. M. Forster
Edward Morgan Forster OM, CH was an English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist. He is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy in early 20th-century British society...
, C.E.M. Joad and Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney is an Irish poet, writer and lecturer. He lives in Dublin. Heaney has received the Nobel Prize in Literature , the Golden Wreath of Poetry , T. S. Eliot Prize and two Whitbread prizes...
Frederick Denison Maurice with Frances Martin helped to set up the Working Women's College in 1874, later to be called The Frances Martin College. This sister college, through financial and organisational difficulties, eventually ran its courses for women at The Working Men's College, and later this in name only as it, and its associated charity, had become unviable. The College's charitable funds were absorbed into those of The Working Men's College, and The Frances Martin College ceased to exist in 1967. Around this time, in 1965, The Working Men's College admitted female students for the first time.
The decision to admit women was an expression of what was seen by the College as its unique and progressive historic feature: educational and financial management through a democratically elected Council of teachers and students. Teachers, (who were unpaid volunteer professionals in their field,) and students were both considered as, and called, Members of College as a mark of equality and respect. This educational and management tradition, seen as being in the spirit of a liberal education that promotes values and responsible civic behaviour, and being a direct link to the founders' concern over the failure of Associationism, lasted until the mid–1990s. Sir Wilfred Griffin Eady
Wilfred Griffin Eady
Sir Wilfred Griffin Eady GCMG, KCB, KBE, was a British Treasury official and diplomat.Eady was a British delegate to the Bretton Woods Conference of July 1944, in New Hampshire. The conference was to decide the post-war international financial system; it led to the International Monetary Fund and...
, principal of the College from 1949 to 1955, defined Liberal Education, the raison d'etre of the College, as "something you can enjoy for its own sake, something which is a personal possession and an inward enrichment, and something which teaches a sense of values".
During the 1970s the College introduced and increased a number of certificated
Academic certificate
An academic certificate is a document that certifies that a person has received specific education or has passed a test or series of tests.In many countries, certificate is a qualification attained in secondary education. For instance, students in the Republic of Ireland sit the Junior Certificate...
courses, and by the beginning of the 1980s there were successful moves to change the voluntary tradition by remunerating teachers. This led to a drain on the financial
FINANCIAL
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reserves of the College. Where previously it supported itself mostly from interest on donations as investments, by the late 1980s it felt obliged to seek government financial aid.
In 1996–97, the governance of the college was changed. Before the change, two bodies regulated college under Articles of Association
Articles of Association
The Continental Association, often known simply as the "Association", was a system created by the First Continental Congress in 1774 for implementing a trade boycott with Great Britain...
and a Scheme of Management: a College Council of 12 teachers and 12 students elected by members of college, and a College Corporation of 16 members self-appointed. Council directed education and finance policy through its committees, and elected college officers: the Principal, Vice Principal, Dean of Studies
Dean (education)
In academic administration, a dean is a person with significant authority over a specific academic unit, or over a specific area of concern, or both...
, Bursar
Bursar
A bursar is a senior professional financial administrator in a school or university.Billing of student tuition accounts are the responsibility of the Office of the Bursar. This involves sending bills and making payment plans with the ultimate goal of getting the student accounts paid off...
and Librarian
Librarian
A librarian is an information professional trained in library and information science, which is the organization and management of information services or materials for those with information needs...
. Corporation managed college charitable trust funds and provided for asset maintenance and part-finance for courses; it was composed largely of lawyers, bankers and businessmen thought capable of managing and extending charitable funding from the private sector. Both bodies and their officers were voluntary. Before 1996, an administrative staff of Warden
Warden (college)
A warden is the head of some colleges and other educational institutions. This applies especially at some colleges and institutions at the University of Oxford:* All Souls College* Greyfriars* Keble College* Merton College* New College* Nuffield College...
, Deputy Warden, Financial Controller, and College Secretary ran the College day-to-day, managing a small number of part-time reception and maintenance staff. After legal advice, and representations to the Charity Commission, Corporation introduced a new Scheme of Management that dissolved Council, and created a self-appointed governing Board of 21 members to decide policy and oversee what became an enlarged paid management. Forceful argument on the change was made on both sides. Seeing Liberal Education’s civic
Civics
Civics is the study of rights and duties of citizenship. In other words, it is the study of government with attention to the role of citizens ― as opposed to external factors ― in the operation and oversight of government....
values and democratic control as being relevant was a view opposed by one that saw different management method being needed for financial and educational viability.
1904-2000
The College opened at 31 Red Lion SquareRed Lion Square
Red Lion Square is a small square on the boundary of Bloomsbury and Holborn in London. The square was laid out in 1698 by Nicholas Barbon, taking its name from the Red Lion Inn. According to some sources the bodies of three regicides - Oliver Cromwell, John Bradshaw and Henry Ireton - were placed...
, later moving to Great Ormond Streetin 1857, both in Central London. In 1905 it located to its new Crowndale Road building in the borough
Borough
A borough is an administrative division in various countries. In principle, the term borough designates a self-governing township although, in practice, official use of the term varies widely....
of St Pancras, London
St Pancras, London
St Pancras is an area of London. For many centuries the name has been used for various officially-designated areas, but now is used informally and rarely having been largely superseded by several other names for overlapping districts.-Ancient parish:...
, now part of The London Borough of Camden
London Borough of Camden
In 1801, the civil parishes that form the modern borough were already developed and had a total population of 96,795. This continued to rise swiftly throughout the 19th century, as the district became built up; reaching 270,197 in the middle of the century...
. This new home had been designed by W. D. Caroe. Since 1964 the building has been Grade II listed.
Foundation stone of the Working Men's College, Camden. Inscription reads:
This first stone of the new home of The Working Men’s College was laid by H.R.H. The Prince of Wales on the 16th of July 1904 The JubileeGolden JubileeA Golden Jubilee is a celebration held to mark a 50th anniversary.- In Thailand :King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the world's longest-reigning monarch, celebrated his Golden Jubilee on 9 June 1996.- In the Commonwealth Realms :...
Year of the College. In memory of Frederick Denison Maurice and of those who worked with him and followed in his footsteps. Albert V. Dicey KC Principal / Reginald J. Mure M.A. Chairman of Building Committee / William D. Caroe M.A. Architect.
The Prince of Wales mentioned later became George V of the United Kingdom
George V of the United Kingdom
George V was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 through the First World War until his death in 1936....
.
The idea of a new purpose-built College had been expressed in the late 1880s. By the 1890s, the demand for more space through increased student numbers, and competition from other institutions such as Evening Continuation Schools and Polytechnics, created a need for greater accommodation, and a desire for facilities such as a museum, gymnasium and chemistry laboratory. The College developed a new building at Crowndale Road on a site purchased from Lord Camden
John Pratt, 4th Marquess Camden
John Charles Pratt, 4th Marquess Camden GCVO, TD, DL, JP , briefly styled Earl of Brecknock in 1872, was a British peer.-Background and education:...
; begun in July 1904, and partly occupied in 1905, it was formally opened by Sir William Anson in January 1906.
The physical structure of the building at Crowndale Road was designed to reflect that found within university colleges. Large common spaces, Library, Common Room, Hall, Museum, and later The Charles Wright Common Room, promoted social and intellectual
Intellectual
An intellectual is a person who uses intelligence and critical or analytical reasoning in either a professional or a personal capacity.- Terminology and endeavours :"Intellectual" can denote four types of persons:...
interaction between student, teacher and staff Members of College. There was no separate staff room
Staff room
A staff room is a room in a primary school, middle school, high school, college and/or university where the teachers and/or school staff talk to each other, discuss work, eat, drink and socialise...
. Specialist rooms such as science laboratories
Laboratory
A laboratory is a facility that provides controlled conditions in which scientific research, experiments, and measurement may be performed. The title of laboratory is also used for certain other facilities where the processes or equipment used are similar to those in scientific laboratories...
art and craft studios, lecture theatre
Lecture hall
A lecture hall is a large room used for instruction, typically at a college or university. Unlike a traditional classroom with a capacity from one to four dozen, the capacity of lecture halls is typically measured in the hundreds...
, and a gymnasium were added in the 1930s, reflecting a desire to provide a broad educational experience.
Principal in providing this experience was The Common Room. During the 20th century this room, with a Servery for refreshment, provided a focus for College Members meet, read, discuss, prepare for class, eat, and occasionally hold impromptu public debate
Public debate
Public debate is a formal style of debate. Two teams of two compete through six rounds of argument, giving persuasive speeches on a particular topic.- Pre-Debate :...
s. It was used as a meeting place for College societies and clubs. Over the years, the College held societies covering activities and subjects such as boxing, cricket, debating, economics, football
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...
, geology, singing, chess, draughts, rowing
Rowing (sport)
Rowing is a sport in which athletes race against each other on rivers, on lakes or on the ocean, depending upon the type of race and the discipline. The boats are propelled by the reaction forces on the oar blades as they are pushed against the water...
, history, natural history, old students, modern languages, language interpretation, railways, walking, sketching
Sketch (drawing)
A sketch is a rapidly executed freehand drawing that is not usually intended as a finished work...
, holidays, wireless
Wireless
Wireless telecommunications is the transfer of information between two or more points that are not physically connected. Distances can be short, such as a few meters for television remote control, or as far as thousands or even millions of kilometers for deep-space radio communications...
, music, and science. Regular social events were organised by a Common Room Committee. The room was the venue for one of the College’s most important functions
Party
A party is a gathering of people who have been invited by a host for the purposes of socializing, conversation, or recreation. A party will typically feature food and beverages, and often music and dancing as well....
, The Furnivall Supper, provided by College founder F.J. Furnivall. The supper, a Christmas meal for old people of the district round the College, lasted as an event until the 1980s. Up to the late–1980s, a September Teachers’ Supper was held in The Common Room hosted by the Principal
Principal (academia)
The Principal is the chief executive and the chief academic officer of a university or college in certain parts of the Commonwealth.-Canada:...
; there was a talk from a guest speaker followed by debate.
The Maurice Hall, with its stage
Theatre
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...
and theatrical lighting, was used for College and outside-user social functions: dances, recitals by the College orchestra
Orchestra
An orchestra is a sizable instrumental ensemble that contains sections of string, brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments. The term orchestra derives from the Greek ορχήστρα, the name for the area in front of an ancient Greek stage reserved for the Greek chorus...
, conferences
Meeting
In a meeting, two or more people come together to discuss one or more topics, often in a formal setting.- Definitions :An act or process of coming together as an assembly for a common purpose....
, outside speakers, theatrical performance, lectures, general College meetings, and for a yearly Lowes Dickinson Award art Exhibition.
The Museum has changed its use over the years, from schoolroom for private school
Private school
Private schools, also known as independent schools or nonstate schools, are not administered by local, state or national governments; thus, they retain the right to select their students and are funded in whole or in part by charging their students' tuition, rather than relying on mandatory...
tenants to art studio. The room features a pastel
Pastel
Pastel is an art medium in the form of a stick, consisting of pure powdered pigment and a binder. The pigments used in pastels are the same as those used to produce all colored art media, including oil paints; the binder is of a neutral hue and low saturation....
portrait of Lionel Jacob, (teacher, Vice Principal 1904–10.) It was re-designated in the early 1990s as the William Walker Room (William 'Paddy' Walker, student and Corporation member for 50 years).
The Gymnasium and The Charles Wright Room, were part of a 1936 building extension, through the demolition of two adjacent College-owned houses, funded by endowment funds, an Appeal Fund
Appeal
An appeal is a petition for review of a case that has been decided by a court of law. The petition is made to a higher court for the purpose of overturning the lower court's decision....
, and the Board of Education
Board of education
A board of education or a school board or school committee is the title of the board of directors or board of trustees of a school, local school district or higher administrative level....
. The Gymnasium was an adjunct to new College playing fields at Canon’s Park, Edgware
Edgware
Edgware is an area in London, situated north-northwest of Charing Cross. It forms part of both the London Borough of Barnet and the London Borough of Harrow. The area is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London....
, that were already used for physical training and sports. The introduction of gymnastics followed a "national interest
National interest
The national interest, often referred to by the French expression raison d'État , is a country's goals and ambitions whether economic, military, or cultural. The concept is an important one in international relations where pursuit of the national interest is the foundation of the realist...
in physical training – stimulated by the efforts of the European dictatorships in this direction". The Charles Wright Room (Charles Wright, b.1855, College benefactor) was added as a second Common Room. Within this 1936 extension were two new science laboratories, one the Ellis Franklin Laboratory, (Ellis Franklin
Ellis Arthur Franklin
Ellis Arthur Franklin OBE was a London merchant banker.Franklin was born into an affluent Anglo-Jewish family, and married Muriel Frances Waley ; their daughter was Rosalind Franklin, one of five children....
, teacher, Vice Principal 1922–29,) and new flats for the College Secretary
Secretary
A secretary, or administrative assistant, is a person whose work consists of supporting management, including executives, using a variety of project management, communication & organizational skills. These functions may be entirely carried out to assist one other employee or may be for the benefit...
and caretaker
Property caretaker
A Property caretaker is a person, group or organization that cares for real estate for trade or financial compensation, and sometimes as a barter for rent-free living accommodations...
.
Post 2000
College building and use programmes reduced original common space and removed some specialist rooms. The Common Room, which ceased to be such in its original sense, was split, one half to house a Centre for Student Affairs for enrolmentMatriculation
Matriculation, in the broadest sense, means to be registered or added to a list, from the Latin matricula – little list. In Scottish heraldry, for instance, a matriculation is a registration of armorial bearings...
and other administration
Academic administration
An academic administration is a branch of university or college employees responsible for the maintenance and supervision of the institution and separate from the faculty or academics, although some personnel may have joint responsibilities...
. The rear of the building was restructured, removing the original Servery, adding a new lift, and a cafeteria
Cafeteria
A cafeteria is a type of food service location in which there is little or no waiting staff table service, whether a restaurant or within an institution such as a large office building or school; a school dining location is also referred to as a dining hall or canteen...
with new library on two levels. The Charles Wright Common Room became management space. The gymnasium was converted for general use. The old Library remained, being listed; it kept its original purpose, and use as an occasional location for film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
. The original Museum became a staff room.
In 2008, College provision was graded as "good" or "outstanding" by OFSTED
Ofsted
The Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills is the non-ministerial government department of Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools In England ....
, and in 2009 it was awarded Beacon Status.
The Working Men's College remains one of the smallest adult education providers in the area.
Founders
- John Llewelyn DaviesArthur Llewelyn DaviesArthur Llewelyn Davies was a respected barrister, but is best known as the father of the boys who served as the inspiration for Peter Pan and the other children of J. M. Barrie's stories of Neverland...
- Lowes Cato DickinsonLowes Cato DickinsonLowes Cato Dickinson was a portrait painter and Christian socialist. He taught drawing with Ruskin and Rossetti. He was a founder of the Working Men's College in London.-Life:...
– drawing teacher - Frederick James FurnivallFrederick James FurnivallFrederick James Furnivall , one of the co-creators of the Oxford English Dictionary , was an English philologist...
– english teacher 1854+ - Thomas HughesThomas HughesThomas Hughes was an English lawyer and author. He is most famous for his novel Tom Brown's Schooldays , a semi-autobiographical work set at Rugby School, which Hughes had attended. It had a lesser-known sequel, Tom Brown at Oxford .- Biography :Hughes was the second son of John Hughes, editor of...
QCQueen's CounselQueen's Counsel , known as King's Counsel during the reign of a male sovereign, are lawyers appointed by letters patent to be one of Her [or His] Majesty's Counsel learned in the law...
– Principal 1873-1883 - Richard Buckley LitchfieldRichard Buckley LitchfieldRichard Buckley Litchfield was a British scholar and philanthropist.-Life:R. B. Litchfield was the only son of Captain Richard Litchfield of Cheltenham, England. He was educated at Cheltenham College and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he became a friend of James Clerk Maxwell, and where he then...
- John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow
- Frederick Denison Maurice – Principal 1854-1872
- John WestlakeJohn WestlakeJohn Westlake was an English law scholar, born at Lostwithiel, Cornwall, the son of a Cornish wool-stapler. He was educated at Lostwithiel and, from 1846, at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated BA in 1850...
– mathematics teacher 1854+
1854 - 1904
- George Allen – student
- Sheldon AmosSheldon AmosSheldon Amos was an English juristSheldon Amos was the son of Andrew Amos. He was educated at Clare College, Cambridge, and was called to the bar as a member of the Middle Temple in 1862. He was invited by F. D. Maurice to teach at The Working Men's College, with fellow Cambridge graduates and...
– teacher 1860s - John Sherren BrewerJohn Sherren BrewerJohn Sherren Brewer was an English clergyman, historian and scholar. He was a brother of E. Cobham Brewer, compiler of Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable.- Birth and education :Born in Norwich, the son of a Baptist schoolmaster...
– teacher 1854+, Vice Principal 1869-1872 - Ford Madox BrownFord Madox BrownFord Madox Brown was an English painter of moral and historical subjects, notable for his distinctively graphic and often Hogarthian version of the Pre-Raphaelite style. Arguably, his most notable painting was Work...
– art teacher 1854+ - John Wharlton BunneyJohn Wharlton BunneyJohn Wharlton Bunney was an English topographical and landscape artist of the nineteenth century.His father was a merchant captain whom Bunney, as a boy, accompanied on several voyages around the world. Bunney demonstrated a strong talent for drawing and draftsmanship from an early age...
– student - Arthur Burgess – student
- Edward Burne-JonesEdward Burne-JonesSir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, 1st Baronet was a British artist and designer closely associated with the later phase of the Pre-Raphaelite movement, who worked closely with William Morris on a wide range of decorative arts as a founding partner in Morris, Marshall, Faulkner, and Company...
– art teacher 1854+ - Samuel ButlerSamuel Butler (novelist)Samuel Butler was an iconoclastic Victorian author who published a variety of works. Two of his most famous pieces are the Utopian satire Erewhon and a semi-autobiographical novel published posthumously, The Way of All Flesh...
– lecturer 1892 - Joseph Henry CollinsJoseph Henry CollinsJoseph Henry Collins FGS, , mining engineer, mineralogist and geologist. Of Cornish descent, he was born in London.-Career:He was at various times the secretary or president of the three learned societies of Cornwall - Royal Geological Society of Cornwall , the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society...
– student 1860's - Ebenezer CookeEbenezer Cooke (art education reformer)Ebenezer Cooke was an art master and pioneer in art education.An apprenticed lithographic draughtsman, he was introduced by his brother to the lectures of Frederick Denison Maurice at the Hall of Association, 34 Castle Street East, London, in 1853 and the summer of 1854. When the Working Men’s...
– student - Albert Dicey KC – Principal 1899-1912
- John Philipps EmslieJohn Philipps EmslieJohn Philipps Emslie was a British topographical artist and folklorist.From 1854, Emslie studied at The Working Men’s College, and was a student of Dante Gabriel Rosetti....
– student - Caradoc EvansCaradoc EvansDavid Caradoc Evans , was a Welsh story writer, novelist and playwright. Caradoc met and later married the Countess Helene Marguerite Barcynska, who wrote romantic novels under the name Oliver Sandys...
– student - Thomas Charles Farrer – student
- Mountstuart Grant Duff GCSIOrder of the Star of IndiaThe Most Exalted Order of the Star of India is an order of chivalry founded by Queen Victoria in 1861. The Order includes members of three classes:# Knight Grand Commander # Knight Commander # Companion...
, CIEOrder of the Indian EmpireThe Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire is an order of chivalry founded by Queen Victoria in 1878. The Order includes members of three classes:#Knight Grand Commander #Knight Commander #Companion...
, PC – teacher - Lord HaldaneRichard Haldane, 1st Viscount HaldaneRichard Burdon Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane KT, OM, PC, KC, FRS, FBA, FSA , was an influential British Liberal Imperialist and later Labour politician, lawyer and philosopher. He was Secretary of State for War between 1905 and 1912 during which time the "Haldane Reforms" were implemented...
KTOrder of the ThistleThe Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle is an order of chivalry associated with Scotland. The current version of the Order was founded in 1687 by King James VII of Scotland who asserted that he was reviving an earlier Order...
, OMOrder of MeritThe Order of Merit is a British dynastic order recognising distinguished service in the armed forces, science, art, literature, or for the promotion of culture...
, PC, KCQueen's CounselQueen's Counsel , known as King's Counsel during the reign of a male sovereign, are lawyers appointed by letters patent to be one of Her [or His] Majesty's Counsel learned in the law...
, FRSRoyal SocietyThe Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, known simply as the Royal Society, is a learned society for science, and is possibly the oldest such society in existence. Founded in November 1660, it was granted a Royal Charter by King Charles II as the "Royal Society of London"...
, FBABritish AcademyThe British Academy is the United Kingdom's national body for the humanities and the social sciences. Its purpose is to inspire, recognise and support excellence in the humanities and social sciences, throughout the UK and internationally, and to champion their role and value.It receives an annual...
, FSASociety of Antiquaries of LondonThe Society of Antiquaries of London is a learned society "charged by its Royal Charter of 1751 with 'the encouragement, advancement and furtherance of the study and knowledge of the antiquities and history of this and other countries'." It is based at Burlington House, Piccadilly, London , and is...
– lecturer and teacher 1881+ - Frederic HarrisonFrederic HarrisonFrederic Harrison was a British jurist and historian.Born at 17 Euston Square, London, he was the son of Frederick Harrison, a stockbroker and his wife Jane, daughter of Alexander Brice, a Belfast granite merchant. He was baptised at St...
– teacher 1857 - George HolyoakeGeorge HolyoakeGeorge Jacob Holyoake , English secularist and co-operator, was born in Birmingham, England. He coined the term "secularism" in 1851 and the term "jingoism" in 1878.-Owenism:...
– teacher 1858+ - Thomas Henry Huxley – lecturer 1880s
- John LubbockJohn Lubbock, 1st Baron AveburyJohn Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury PC , FRS , known as Sir John Lubbock, 4th Baronet from 1865 until 1900, was a polymath and Liberal Member of Parliament....
– Principal 1883-1899 - Godfrey LushingtonGodfrey LushingtonSir Godfrey Lushington KCB, GCMG, , British civil servant and promoter of prison reform, was Permanent Under-Secretary of State of the Home Office of the United Kingdom from 1886 to 1895....
KCBOrder of the BathThe Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry founded by George I on 18 May 1725. The name derives from the elaborate mediæval ceremony for creating a knight, which involved bathing as one of its elements. The knights so created were known as Knights of the Bath...
, GCMG – teacher, benefactor, Member of Corporation 1858+ - Vernon LushingtonVernon LushingtonVernon Lushington QC, , was a Positivist, Deputy Judge Advocate General, Second Secretary to the Admiralty, and was associated with the Pre-Raphaelites....
QC – teacher 1858+ - William MorrisWilliam MorrisWilliam Morris 24 March 18343 October 1896 was an English textile designer, artist, writer, and socialist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Crafts Movement...
– lectures - Arthur MunbyArthur MunbyArthur Joseph Munby was a Victorian British diarist, poet, barrister and solicitor. He is also known by his initials, A. J. Munby.-Biography:...
– Latin teacher - Alexander MunroAlexander Munro (sculptor)Alexander Munro was a British sculptor of the Pre-Raphaelite movement.Son of a stonemason, his talents were supported by financial assistance from his father’s employer, the Duchess of Sutherland. He came to London in 1848 to study sculpture under Charles Barry...
– art teacher 1854+ - Sydney OlivierSydney Olivier, 1st Baron OlivierSydney Haldane Olivier, 1st Baron Olivier, KCMG, CB, PC , was a British civil servant. A Fabian and a member of the Labour Party, he served as Governor of Jamaica and as Secretary of State for India in the first government of Ramsay MacDonald...
KCMGOrder of St Michael and St GeorgeThe Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George is an order of chivalry founded on 28 April 1818 by George, Prince Regent, later George IV of the United Kingdom, while he was acting as Prince Regent for his father, George III....
, CBOrder of the BathThe Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry founded by George I on 18 May 1725. The name derives from the elaborate mediæval ceremony for creating a knight, which involved bathing as one of its elements. The knights so created were known as Knights of the Bath...
, PC – Latin teacher 1880s - Francis PenroseFrancis PenroseFrancis Cranmer Penrose FRS was an English rower, architect, archaeologist and astronomer.-Early life:...
– teacher 1854+ - Frederick Pollock – Member of Corporation 1880s
- Valentine Cameron PrinsepValentine Cameron PrinsepValentine Cameron Prinsep, often known as Val Princep, was a British painter of the Pre-Raphaelite school.-Early life:...
– art teacher 1854+ - Dante Gabriel Rosetti – art teacher 1854-1858
- John RuskinJohn RuskinJohn Ruskin was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, also an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He wrote on subjects ranging from geology to architecture, myth to ornithology, literature to education, and botany to political...
: art teacher 1854-1858, Member of College Council - John Robert SeeleyJohn Robert SeeleySir John Robert Seeley, KCMG was an English essayist and historian.-Life:He was born in London, the son of R.B. Seeley, a publisher. Seeley developed a taste for religious and historical subjects...
– teacher 1860s, Member of Corporation 1880s - James Fitzjames StephenJames Fitzjames StephenSir James Fitzjames Stephen, 1st Baronet was an English lawyer, judge and writer. He was created 1st Baronet Stephen by Queen Victoria.-Early life:...
– teacher 1855 - Leslie StephenLeslie StephenSir Leslie Stephen, KCB was an English author, critic and mountaineer, and the father of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell.-Life:...
– lecturer 1854+, Member of Corporation 1880s - Thomas SulmanThomas SulmanThomas Sulman was an English architectural draftsman.Sulman studied at The Working Men’s College between 1854 to 1858, where he was a student of, and later an engraver for, Dante Gabriel Rossetti ; he was influenced by the positivist philosophy of Auguste Comte and taught drawing classes at the...
– student - Richard Chenevix TrenchRichard Chenevix TrenchRichard Chenevix Trench was an Anglican archbishop and poet.-Life:He was born at Dublin, in Ireland, son of the Dublin writer Melesina Trench, his elder brother was Francis Chenevix Trench. He went to school at Harrow, and graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1829. In 1830 he visited Spain...
– teacher 1860s - G. M. TrevelyanG. M. TrevelyanGeorge Macaulay Trevelyan, OM, CBE, FRS, FBA , was a British historian. Trevelyan was the third son of Sir George Otto Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet, and great-nephew of Thomas Babington Macaulay, whose staunch liberal Whig principles he espoused in accessible works of literate narrative avoiding a...
– teacher - John TyndallJohn TyndallJohn Tyndall FRS was a prominent Irish 19th century physicist. His initial scientific fame arose in the 1850s from his study of diamagnetism. Later he studied thermal radiation, and produced a number of discoveries about processes in the atmosphere...
– lecturer 1880s - Thomas WoolnerThomas WoolnerThomas Woolner RA was an English sculptor and poet who was one of the founder-members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. He was the only sculptor among the original members....
– art teacher 1854+
1905 - 1954
- Ralph George Scott BankesRalph George Scott BankesRalph George Scott Bankes was a British barrister and Diocesan Chancellor.Bankes was born to Ralph Vincent Bankes and Ethel Georgina Mount...
– benefactor and teacher 1923-1948 - Frank BeswickFrank Beswick, Baron BeswickFrank Beswick, Baron Beswick was a British Labour Co-operative politician.Born in 1911 in Nottingham, Beswick's father was a coal miner. He was educated in Nottingham and then at the Working Men's College in London. He became a journalist and was elected to the London County Council...
– student - Wilfred Griffin EadyWilfred Griffin EadySir Wilfred Griffin Eady GCMG, KCB, KBE, was a British Treasury official and diplomat.Eady was a British delegate to the Bretton Woods Conference of July 1944, in New Hampshire. The conference was to decide the post-war international financial system; it led to the International Monetary Fund and...
GCMG, KCB, KBE – Principal 1944-1955 - Ellis Arthur FranklinEllis Arthur FranklinEllis Arthur Franklin OBE was a London merchant banker.Franklin was born into an affluent Anglo-Jewish family, and married Muriel Frances Waley ; their daughter was Rosalind Franklin, one of five children....
OBE – Vice Principal, teacher of "electricity" - Stanley Arthur FranklinStanley Arthur FranklinStanley Arthur Franklin was a British political cartoonist whose career on the Daily Mirror and The Sun newspapers covered almost forty years....
– student - Barnett FreedmanBarnett FreedmanBarnett Freedman CBE was a British artist, commercial designer, book illustrator, typographer, and lithographer.Freedman, the son of East-End Russian-Jewish immigrants, was self-educated during four years in hospitals, between the ages of nine and thirteen, because of asthma that was to trouble...
CBECBECBE and C.B.E. are abbreviations for "Commander of the Order of the British Empire", a grade in the Order of the British Empire.Other uses include:* Chemical and Biochemical Engineering...
– art teacher 1930s - George Peabody GoochGeorge Peabody GoochGeorge Peabody Gooch OM, CH was a British journalist, historian and Liberal Party politician. A follower of Lord Acton, he never held an academic position, but knew the work of historians of continental Europe.-Early life:...
– teacher and lecturer - Wilfred Arthur GreeneWilfred Greene, 1st Baron GreeneWilfred Arthur Greene, 1st Baron Greene MC, OBE, KC, PC was a British lawyer and judge.-Education and Military Service:...
– Principal 1936-1944 - Percy HortonPercy HortonPercy Frederick Horton MA, RBA, ARCA was an English painter and art teacher, and Ruskin Master of Drawing, University of Oxford from 1949 to 1964...
MA, RBARoyal Society of British ArtistsThe Royal Society of British Artists is a British art body established in 1823 as the Society of British Artists, as an alternative to the Royal Academy.-History:...
, ARCARoyal College of ArtThe Royal College of Art is an art school located in London, United Kingdom. It is the world’s only wholly postgraduate university of art and design, offering the degrees of Master of Arts , Master of Philosophy and Doctor of Philosophy...
– art teacher 1930s - Ronald Horton ARCARoyal College of ArtThe Royal College of Art is an art school located in London, United Kingdom. It is the world’s only wholly postgraduate university of art and design, offering the degrees of Master of Arts , Master of Philosophy and Doctor of Philosophy...
– art teacher 1929-1932 - Albert HouthuesenAlbert HouthuesenAlbert Houthuesen was a Dutch-born British artist. He was born in Amsterdam, but came to London in 1912, following the death of his father. During the 1920s, he studied at the Royal College of Art with Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Edward Burra, Ceri Richards and Cecil Collins...
– art teacher 1930s - James LaverJames LaverJames Laver CBE FRSA was an author, art historian, and museum curator who acted as Keeper of Prints, Drawings and Paintings for the Victoria and Albert Museum between 1938 and 1959...
CBECBECBE and C.B.E. are abbreviations for "Commander of the Order of the British Empire", a grade in the Order of the British Empire.Other uses include:* Chemical and Biochemical Engineering...
FRSA – Director of Art Classes 1926-1938 - Charles Prestwood LucasCharles Prestwood LucasSir Charles Prestwood Lucas KCB, KCMG, , was a civil servant and historian of Welsh extraction.Lucas was born at Crickhowell, Brecon, Wales. He was the grandson of Dr. Henry John Lucas and Jenetta Illtyda and son of Henry Lucas. His sister, Mary Anne Lucas, married the first Baron Glanusk...
– KCB KCMG – Principal, 1912-1922 - Frederick Barton MauriceFrederick Barton MauriceMajor-General Sir Frederick Barton Maurice, 1st Baronet GCB GCMG GCVO DSO was a British general, military correspondent, writer and academic...
– Principal 1922-1933 - George OrwellGeorge OrwellEric Arthur Blair , better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English author and journalist...
– teacher - Geoffrey Rhoades – art teacher 1930s
- Vaughan Williams – music teacher
- Arnold WilsonArnold WilsonSir Arnold Talbot Wilson KCIE CSI CMG DSO was the British civil commissioner in Baghdad in 1918-1920. Wilson became publicly known for his role as the colonial administrator of Mesopotamia during and after the First World War. His high-handedness arguably led to an Iraqi revolt in 1920. He was...
KCIEKCIEKCIE may refer to:* Knight Commander, one of the ranks of the Order of the Indian Empire* KCIE , a radio station licensed to Dulce, New Mexico, United States...
, CSI, CMGOrder of St Michael and St GeorgeThe Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George is an order of chivalry founded on 28 April 1818 by George, Prince Regent, later George IV of the United Kingdom, while he was acting as Prince Regent for his father, George III....
DSODistinguished Service OrderThe Distinguished Service Order is a military decoration of the United Kingdom, and formerly of other parts of the British Commonwealth and Empire, awarded for meritorious or distinguished service by officers of the armed forces during wartime, typically in actual combat.Instituted on 6 September...
– Principal, 1933-1936
1955 - 2011
- Ronald Forbes AdamRonald AdamGeneral Sir Ronald Forbes Adam, 2nd Baronet, GCB, DSO, OBE was a British Army officer whose career spanned World War I and World War II...
– Principal 1956-1961 - John BowsteadJohn BowsteadJohn Bowstead is an English artist, and contributor to the Pop Art movement of the 1960s.In 1962, while studying at Coventry School of Art , Bowstead won the Reuters Prize for "Young Contemporaries", alongside Maurice Agis, David Hockney and Peter Phillips. This led to the exhibition "Four Young...
– art teacher - Henry John Byrt QC – Principal 1982-1987
- Edward DuCann – teacher
- Satnam Gill OBE – Principal (current at 2011)
- Lucy de Groot CBE – Vice Chair of Board
- J.M. Hancock Prof. – Chair of Corporation and Board 1987-1999
- Seamus HeaneySeamus HeaneySeamus Heaney is an Irish poet, writer and lecturer. He lives in Dublin. Heaney has received the Nobel Prize in Literature , the Golden Wreath of Poetry , T. S. Eliot Prize and two Whitbread prizes...
– teacher - Timothy HymanTimothy HymanTimothy Hyman is a British figurative painter, art writer and curator. A recognised authority on Sienese painting and the work of Pierre Bonnard, he has published acclaimed monographs on both subjects. He has written extensively on art and film, has been a regular contributor to the Times...
– art history teacher - Sarah LucasSarah LucasSarah Lucas is an English artist. She is part of the generation of Young British Artists who emerged during the 1990s...
– student - Andrew McIntosh – Principal 1988-1997
- Albert Alan Owen ARAMAram-Bible:* Aram, son of Shem, according to the "Table of Nations" in Genesis 10* Aram-Naharaim , the land in which the city of Haran lay* Aram , an ancient region containing the state of Aram Damascus...
, ARCM, Prof Cert RAM – music teacher, Dean of Studies - Jeremy Seabrook – teacher
- Tom Schuller Prof. – Chair of Board 2008
- Ruth SilverRuth SilverDame Dr. Ruth Muldoon Silver, DBE is a British educator.Ruth Silver was born in Lanarkshire, Scotland. She was the Principal of Lewisham College, was chair of the Working Men's College governing board from 2002 to 2005, and, at 2010, is the chair of The Learning and Skills Improvement Service , a...
DBE – Chair of Board 2002-2005 - Lucius P. Thompson-McCauslandLucius Thompson-McCauslandLucius Perronet Thompson-McCausland was a British economist who took part in the Bretton Woods conference and was a Treasury adviser during the sterling crisis in the 1960s....
– Principal 1969-1979 - Janet WhitakerJanet Whitaker, Baroness WhitakerJanet Alison Whitaker, Baroness Whitaker is a British politician .Councils, public bodies: Magistrate 1985-2006;Member: Employment Tribunal 1995-2000;Immigration Complaints Audit Committee 1998-99;...
– Chair of Board 1999-2002
Vice Principals
A principal provided the intellectual driving force and public face of the College. In 1869 F.D. Maurice found his work beyond the College precluded taking as active a role as previously. He recommended an office of Vice Principal to oversee and direct administration. This office was supplemented by others: Dean of Studies, Bursar, and Librarian; all being taken by teachers or students through election. These offices ceased to exist in 1996/97.- John Sherren BrewerJohn Sherren BrewerJohn Sherren Brewer was an English clergyman, historian and scholar. He was a brother of E. Cobham Brewer, compiler of Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable.- Birth and education :Born in Norwich, the son of a Baptist schoolmaster...
: 1869- 1872 - Richard Buckley LitchfieldRichard Buckley LitchfieldRichard Buckley Litchfield was a British scholar and philanthropist.-Life:R. B. Litchfield was the only son of Captain Richard Litchfield of Cheltenham, England. He was educated at Cheltenham College and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he became a friend of James Clerk Maxwell, and where he then...
: 1872-1875 - Charles Crawley: 1883-1887
- Reginald J. Mure: 1888-1896
- Charles Prestwood LucasCharles Prestwood LucasSir Charles Prestwood Lucas KCB, KCMG, , was a civil servant and historian of Welsh extraction.Lucas was born at Crickhowell, Brecon, Wales. He was the grandson of Dr. Henry John Lucas and Jenetta Illtyda and son of Henry Lucas. His sister, Mary Anne Lucas, married the first Baron Glanusk...
: 1897-1903 - Lionel Jacob: 1904-1910
- Arthur S. Lupton: 1911-1921
- Ellis Arthur FranklinEllis Arthur FranklinEllis Arthur Franklin OBE was a London merchant banker.Franklin was born into an affluent Anglo-Jewish family, and married Muriel Frances Waley ; their daughter was Rosalind Franklin, one of five children....
: 1922-1929 - G.F.A. Burgess: 1929-1932
- A.D.B. Pearson: 1932-1933
- Charles B. McAlpine: 1933-1936
- Frank Gahan: 1936-1945
- Ronald Morrison: 1945-1948
- Horace H. West: 1948-1952
- H. Michael D. Parker: 1952-1955
- Anthony J. Lincoln: 1955-1960
- Baram Sh. Saklatvala: 1960-1966
- Rudi L. Weisweiller: 1966-1976
- A. George B. Deacon: 1976-1978
- Henry John Byrt: 1978-1982
- Roger Farrington: 1982-1985
- Denis F. Murphy: 1985-1990
- Reginald Wright: 1990-1992
- Shankara Angadi: 1992-1994
- Ian Bell: 1994-1996