Wynyard School
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Wynyard School was a boarding school in Watford
, Hertfordshire
, England
.
It was attended by C.S. Lewis (from September 1908 until June 1910) and his brother Warren
. Lewis' vivid account of the miseries he suffered do not seem to have been exaggerated.The discipline was so severe, even by the standards of the time, that the family of one pupil took an action for assault, which appears to have destroyed the school financially.
Soon after the school closed, the headmaster suffered a breakdown and was committed to an insane asylum.
Another old boy of the school was Arthur William Barton
, who became Archbishop of Dublin. Lewis recalled that he and Barton attended the headmaster's funeral and shared the wish that they would never meet him again in any future life.
Watford
Watford is a town and borough in Hertfordshire, England, situated northwest of central London and within the bounds of the M25 motorway. The borough is separated from Greater London to the south by the urbanised parish of Watford Rural in the Three Rivers District.Watford was created as an urban...
, Hertfordshire
Hertfordshire
Hertfordshire is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East region of England. The county town is Hertford.The county is one of the Home Counties and lies inland, bordered by Greater London , Buckinghamshire , Bedfordshire , Cambridgeshire and...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
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It was attended by C.S. Lewis (from September 1908 until June 1910) and his brother Warren
Warren Lewis
Warren Hamilton Lewis was an Irish British Army officer and historian, best known as the brother of the author and professor C. S. Lewis. Warren Lewis was a supply officer with the Royal Army Service Corps of the British Army during and after World War I...
. Lewis' vivid account of the miseries he suffered do not seem to have been exaggerated.The discipline was so severe, even by the standards of the time, that the family of one pupil took an action for assault, which appears to have destroyed the school financially.
Soon after the school closed, the headmaster suffered a breakdown and was committed to an insane asylum.
Another old boy of the school was Arthur William Barton
Arthur William Barton
Arthur William Barton DD was a Church of Ireland clergyman, from 1939 Archbishop of Dublin.-Early life:Born in 1881, the son of the Rev...
, who became Archbishop of Dublin. Lewis recalled that he and Barton attended the headmaster's funeral and shared the wish that they would never meet him again in any future life.