Amersham Hall
Amersham Hall was a "school for the sons of dignified gentlemen" in England. From 1829 to 1861 it was in Elmodesham House in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, relocating in 1861 to Caversham in Oxfordshire. The Caversham site, a suburb in the north of Reading and now in Berkshire, currently houses Queen Anne's School.
The Reverend Ebenezer West, principal of Amersham Hall, funded most of the construction of the West Memorial Hall in Caversham, as well as the Caversham Baptist Free Church a decade later. The memorial hall was extended in 1911 "...to find rooms for wholesome recreation and moral improvement for the young men of Caversham, and to increase the space available for religious teaching on Sundays in connection with the Caversham Free Church, of which the late Mr Ebenezer West was so generous a supporter."[1]
Notable alumni
- Augustine Birrell (1850–1933), author and politician
- Virgoe Buckland (1825–1883), surveyor (son of William Thomas Buckland)[2]
- Francis Gotch (1853–1913), neurophysiologist
- Sir Alfred Pearce Gould (1852-1922), Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of London (1912–16), Vice-Chancellor of the university (1916–17)
- John Neville Keynes (1852–1949), economist
- Sir Frank William Wills Kt. ( 1852-1932 ), architect, surveyor & Lord Mayor of Bristol. He was also a member of the Wills tobacco Family.
- Sir Frederick Wills Bt. ( 1838-1909 ) businessman, Liberal Unionist politician, and a director of WD & HO Wills, which later merged to become Imperial Tobacco.
References
- ↑ Malpas, John. Caversham Names. Reading: John Malpas, 1995, pp.33–34.
- ↑ Find a grave
Sources
Coordinates: 51°40′00″N 0°37′07″W / 51.6666°N 0.6186°W