Educational Adverts
Herts Advertiser
2nd February, 1889
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SCHOLASTIC
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ST ALBANS GRAMMAR SCHOOL
Founded A.D. 1553
Head-Master - Rev. Frank Willcox, M.A.
Assistant Masters - Rev. R. E. Faning, M.A., Herr F. X. Keller, Mr. C. H. Ashdown
THE SCHOOL FEES are inclusive. Boarders are received in the Head-Master's House. For further particulars apply to the Head-Master.
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CLAREMOUNT SCHOOL
ST ALBANS
COMMERCIAL AND CLASSICAL BOARDING AND DAY SCHOOL
Principal -- C. WROOT, M.C.P.
Full particulars, with Prospectus containing view, on application
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BOARDING AND DAY SCHOOL FOR YOUNG LADIES
MANOR LODGE
UPPER LATTIMORE ROAD, ST ALBANS
Principal - MISS PALMER
Assisted by experienced Certified Governesses and Masters
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ST ALBANS HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS
ROWLATTS, ST PETER'S PARK
Principal - MISS HORNSBY
Resident German Governess and staff of visiting Professors for languages and accomplishments. Ladies can attend the classes for special subjects. Yearly, Weekly, and Daily Boarders received. Next term will commence 17th January, 1889. Prospectus forwarded on application.
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PREPARATORY CLASS
MRS. HENRY LEWIS
Is desirous of receiving a limited number of young children to form a MORNING CLASS for preparatory instruction. For terms, &c., apply Worley-road, St Albans.
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PUBLIC LIBRARY
Principal - Mr GEORGE GAFFE, F.C.O.
FOR Prospectus and all particulars, apply to the Hon. Secretaries, either by letter, or personally, at the School on Wednesdays between 3 and 4 pm.
Hon, Secs. {Miss White, London-road, St Albans Miss Mary Toulmin, The Pré,
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DANCING AND MUSICAL DRILL
MADAME L. CABY
HAS the honour to announce that she holds her Class for the sons and daughters of gentlemen every Friday, from 2.30 to 4.30, at
THE TOWN HALL, ST ALBANS
Madame Caby, with thoroughly qualified Assistants, will give Private Lessons in the Waltz, &c.
Private Address: Madame L. CABY, High Street, Watford, Herts.
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MISS ADA E. N. CRICK
LATE STUDENT OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC, KENSINGTON GORE, London
GIVES LESSONS IN SINGING, PIANO, and ELOCUTION. - For terms, apply Kentish Villas, Verulam-road, St Albans.
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MRS. GEO. ROSE, R.A.M.,
PROFESSOR OF SINGING AND PIANO, For terms, apply Torrisdale, Midland-road, St Albans.
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MR. WILLIAM CAWSTON,
ORGANIST OF ST PETER'S CHURCH, ST ALBANS
Is prepared to receive Pupils for the Pianoforte and Organ. For terms and all particulars apply
SPENCER STREET, ST ALBANS
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April 2004: Sukie Hunter (sukieh @t compuserve.com) wrote: Just been browsing through your site again (I was actually about to copy the 1889 advertisement for Mrs Henry Lewis's preparatory school, as I'm fairly certain she was Mary, the wife of Arthur Lewis's (see Wiles and Lewis's Tallow Works,) half brother, the chemist in St Peter's Street - they lived in Worley Road in 1901) and the name Rev. R. E. Faning caught my eye. I know who he was too! Roger Emmanuel Faning was born in Helston, Cornwall, in 1857 and later became Rector of Stanningsfield, Suffolk. (Some of his descendants are rather reprehensibly listed on a site somewhere.) He was the younger brother of Eaton Faning, who was quite a well known composer of light music in the 1890s and was a master at Harrow. Another brother (also a clergyman) was apparently a master at Brentwood Grammar School, Essex, in 1881, and their father was a music teacher, so teaching was clearly a family tradition. Their mother, Caroline Thurtell, was also a cousin of the murderer (and of Arthur Lewis's grandmother). For some further links with the Lewis and Thurtell Families. See St Albans Educational Adverts.
June 2005
Annie (Annie @t trisys.co.uk) writes I have just come on line and found this page referring to the Fanings. The brother that Sukie Hunter referred to in her email of April 2004 who taught at Brentford grammar school was James Fredrick Faning who later married Mary Harriette Douty (daughter of Joel Douty, Headmaster of Wilton free school and latterly Netherhampton school) in 1897..
If you can add to the information given above, please tell me.
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