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Ludgrove, Hadley Common, circa 1900 [Arthur Tempest Blackiston DUNN] February, 2012 |
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Ludgrove, New Barnet - B & D KROMO post card No 21918, circa 1907 [Image kindly supplied by Les Bedford] [copy known posted 1910] |
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Les Bedford (webmaster@monkenhadleycommon.net) of New Barnet writes: I've recently taken over as the webmaster for the Monken Hadley Common web site, and am part way through re-designing the site. I have accumulated a number of old postcards relating to the Common, and a few of these are already on the site. I have my sights on publishing the above Ludgrove card, ("KROMO" SERIES postcard No. T 21918) and if you can shed any light on its date, this would be much appreciated!
The card was published by the pioneer post card publishers Blum and Degan - and fortunately these cards can be dated pretty precisely. They launched the Kromo series of coloured post cards in 1905 and went bankrupt in October 1908. It seems most of the Hertfordshire views were specially photographed so a date of circa 1906 will be about right.
The house was in Monken Hadley parish, which means that prior to 1904 it was in Middlesex, then moved into Hertfordshire, for a period of 60 years. This means that it is not always clear where records relating to it might be found. In the 1896 London Suburban Directory (Northern) it is recorded as
Dunn, Arthur Tempest Blackiston, Ludgrove, Cock Fosters or Trent, Enfield, Letters through New Barnet
In the Middlesex Directory for 1899 it appears as:
Dunn, Arthur T. B., Private Boys School, Ludgrove, Cockfosters, Enfield - Letters through New Barnet
In the 1901 census it comes under the Barnet (Herts) union as
Ludgrove, Hadley Common, Monkton Hadley (Herts)
However in 1908 and 1912 I could find no reference to it in the Hertfordshire Directories.
On the other hand it turns out that Arthur Tempest Blackiston Dunn (1860-1902) is a very interesting character (Wikipedia). He was born in Whitby, Yorkshire, the son of John Dunn, who was M.A. Cambs. and teacher of Italian, Greek and Mathematics at Cambridge University in 1891.
Arthur
was educated at Eton and later got an
M.A. at Trinity College Cambridge (where
he was at the time of the 1881 census.) He played football for the Old
Etonians playing in the F.A. Cup in 1882, (when Blackburn
Rovers were beaten 1-0) and 1883 (when Blackburn Olympic won
2-1). He played in the England team when they beat Ireland in
1883 and 1884, Wales in 1892, and Scotland in 1893. He was
England's captain twice. By the end of the century it was becoming
increasingly apparent that amateur teams could no longer win the F.A. Cup
and Arthur Dunn proposed a competition
for the old boys of public schools. Before this could be done he died, at
Ludgrove. Three weeks later his friend
Norman Malcolmson (brother-in-law and
Old Etonian) convened a meeting which resulted in the foundation of the
Arthur Dunn Cup. The first match was played on 28 March 1903, and is
still competed for annually, its
centenary being celebrated in 2003.
In 1892 Arthur married Helen Matilda Malcolmson, daughter of George Malcolmson, a Banker and Merchant who lived at West Farm, East Barnet in 1881 and at Norrysbury, Cockfosters Road, East Barnet in 1891. In the same year Arthur established Ludgrove School, a large preparatory boarding school not far from where his father-in-law lived.
The following was the establishment at Ludgrove in 1901 (FindMyPast transcription), the original being unclear about the status of his wife in the running and ownership of the school:
| DUNN, Arthur Tempest B | Head | Married | M | 40 |
Head Master Of Preparatory School |
Whitby, Yorkshire |
| DUNN, Helen Matilda | Wife | Married | F | 33 | (ditto) | Hyde Park SQ, London |
| DUNN, John Herbert M | Son | Single | M | 7 | Hadley, Hertfordshire | |
| DUNN, Marjory Florence | Daughter | Single | F | 6 | Hadley, Hertfordshire | |
| DUNN, Olive Mary | Daughter | Single | F | 1 | Hadley, Hertfordshire | |
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| ANDERSON, Gerard Rupert Laurie | Pupil | M | 12 | Twickenham, Middlesex | ||
| BAGNALL, Frederick P Dunn | Pupil | M | 11 | Little Shalford, Cambridgeshire | ||
| BAILEY, Wilfrid Hussell | Pupil | M | 9 | London | ||
| BENSON, Reginald Lindlay | Pupil | M | 11 | South Street, London | ||
| BEVAN, Robert Austin | Pupil | M | 10 | Swanley, Kent | ||
| BIRCHENOUGH, William Taylor | Pupil | M | 9 | Lyme Green, Cheshire | ||
| BIRKBECK, Christopher Robert | Pupil | M | 12 | Keswick, Norfolk | ||
| BOOTH, Honble John L R Silster | Pupil | M | 10 | Maiden Erley, Berkshire | ||
| BOSCAWEN, Honble George Edward | Pupil | M | 12 | South Andtry ST, London | ||
| BOSEMAN, Honble Vere Douglas | Pupil | M | 10 | South Andley ST, London | ||
| BRIDGEMAN, Roger Orlando | Pupil | M | 11 | Cromwell RD, London | ||
| BURNET, John Robert | Pupil | M | 9 | Upper Wimpole ST, London | ||
| BURRELL, Raymond Frances T | Pupil | M | 11 | Wimbledon, Surrey | ||
| BUSK, Joseph | Pupil | M | 10 | Dorchester, Dorsetshire | ||
| CAMPBELL, Henry Fitz Herbert | Pupil | M | 9 | Ralster, Staffordshire | ||
| CORBET, Vincent Stewart | Pupil | M | 11 | Grosvenor Square, London | ||
| CORNWALLIS, Fiennes Wykeham M | Pupil | M | 10 | Linton, Kent | ||
| CORNWALLIS, Stanley Wykeham | Pupil | M | 8 | Linton, Kent | ||
| CURTIS, Arthur R W | Pupil | M | 11 | Fakenham, Norfolk | ||
| CURTIS, Henry Osborne | Pupil | M | 12 | Hillington, Norfolk | ||
| DYDES, Wyndham Douglas Hart | Pupil | M | 8 | St Grayes Hanover SQ, London | ||
| EASTWOOD, Harold Edmund | Pupil | M | 12 | Witley, Surrey | ||
| EASTWOOD, John Francis | Pupil | M | 13 | Witley, Surrey | ||
| EASTWOOD, Noel Walter | Pupil | M | 10 | Witley, Surrey | ||
| FINCH, John Charles Wynne | Pupil | M | 9 | Tylrizoy, Carmarthenshire | ||
| FORTESCUE, Honble Hugh William | Pupil | M | 12 | Chesham ST, London | ||
| GREENWOOD, Victor John | Pupil | M | 13 | Bertswith, Yorkshire | ||
| HARTER, James Collier Foster | Pupil | M | 11 | Grosvenor ST, London | ||
| HAY, Lord Edward Douglas John | Pupil | M | 12 | Haddingtonshire Gifford Scotland | ||
| HIBBERT, Leicester Robert | Pupil | M | 12 | Co Dublin Dublin | ||
| HIBBERT, Thurstans Holland | Pupil | M | 12 | Aldenham, Hertfordshire | ||
| HICKS, Charles E H Tempest | Pupil | M | 12 | Parish of Hadley, Hertfordshire | ||
| HOLLINS, John C H L | Pupil | M | 10 | Preston St Georges, Lancashire | ||
| HUNTER, Kenneth Shingby | Pupil | M | 11 | Aldwark, Yorkshire | ||
| HUNTER, Ronald Claude | Pupil | M | 12 | London | ||
| KENNETH, Aubrey Hampton Barrington | Pupil | M | 10 | East Barnet, Hertfordshire | ||
| KENNETH, Victor A Barrington | Pupil | M | 13 | Belgrave ST, London | ||
| LYON, Honble Fergus Bowes | Pupil | M | 11 | Ham, Surrey | ||
| LYTLER, Neil Freaser | Pupil | M | 11 | Inverness Dover Scotland | ||
| MALONE, Cecil John L estrange | Pupil | M | 10 | Dalton Hobine, Yorkshire | ||
| MAYNARD, Anthony Lax | Pupil | M | 11 | Chesterfield, Derbyshire | ||
| MITCHISON, Gilbert Richard | Pupil | M | 11 | Sunbury on Thames, Surrey | ||
| NORMAN, Charles Wake | Pupil | M | 10 | London | ||
| OXLEY, Gerald Stewart | Pupil | M | 11 | Worth, Sussex | ||
| PARKER, Oliver Ivan | Pupil | M | 9 | N K | ||
| PEASE, Richard Arthur | Pupil | M | 10 | Darlington, Durham | ||
| PELHAM, Honble Sackirlle G A | Pupil | M | 12 | Arlington ST, London | ||
| PREMANT, Alan G Sholto Douglas | Pupil | M | 10 | Stony Stratford, Northamptonshire | ||
| ROWLEY, George Richard Francis | Pupil | M | 12 | Morcott, Rutland | ||
| SMITH, Reginald H M A | Pupil | M | 10 | Witley, Surrey | ||
| STEPHENSON, Edward Keppel | Pupil | M | 10 | Beanfort Gardens, London | ||
| STRICKLAND, Algernon Walter | Pupil | M | 10 | Chefielt Mayfair, London | ||
| TOPHAM, Denis Bevan | Pupil | M | 11 | Barkstone Gardens, London | ||
| VERNON, Granville C F Harcourt | Pupil | M | 9 | Groun, Nottinghamshire | ||
| WALKER, John P E | Pupil | M | 9 | Hocliffe Leighton Buzzard, Beds | ||
| WALKER, Robert James Milo | Pupil | M | 11 | Hockcliffe Leighton Buzzard, Beds | ||
| WIGGIN, William Henry | Pupil | M | 13 | Selly Oak, Worcestershire | ||
| WILLIAMS, Edward Gordon | Pupil | M | 12 | Otway St Mary, Devonshire | ||
| WORSLEY, William Arthington | Pupil | M | 10 | Hovingham, Yorkshire | ||
| ZINN, Valentine Maurice Wyndham | Pupil | M | 10 | Marylebone, London | ||
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| BROOMFIELD, Alice | Servant | F | 38 | Nurse | Paddington, London | |
| BROOMFIELD, Milly | Servant | Single | F | 28 | Nurse | Paddington, London |
| ALLIS, Laonna Florence | Servant | Single | F | 19 | Under Nurse | Withington, Herefordshire |
| KNIGHT, Elizabeth | Servant | Single | F | 53 | Head Cook | Morton, Lincolnshire |
| PETERS, Alice | Servant | Single | F | 24 | Parlour Maid | Hotlisbury St Mary, Surrey |
| HILLIER, Ellen Elizabeth | Servant | Single | F | 28 | Housemaid | Bromham, Wiltshire |
| BOWMAN, Edith | Servant | Single | F | 25 | Parlourmaid | Reading, Berkshire |
| POULTER, Margaret M | Servant | Single | F | 21 | Parlourmaid | Newtown, Cambridgeshire |
| DEARMAN, Florence Jane | Servant | Single | F | 20 | Kitchen Maid | Hertfordshire |
| HOBBS, Edith Mary | Servant | Single | F | 18 | Kitchen Maid | Cockfosters, Middlesex |
| SISMEY, Mary Ann | Servant | Single | F | 21 | Housemaid | Bardythorpe, Rutland |
| SLIVERMAN, Edith Woodley | Servant | F | 21 | Housemaid | Poplar, London | |
| FAINLAND, Alice | Servant | Single | F | 20 | Kitchenmaid | Leatherhead, Surrey |
| SHEARMAN, Alice Emily | Servant | Single | F | 19 | Housemaid | Poplar, London |
| SAUGET, Lily | Servant | Single | F | 15 | Kitchenmaid | Crewkerne, Somersetshire |
The teachers were in Trent House, Ludgrove
| HANSELL, Henry Peter | Boarder | Married | M | 36 | Schoolmaster Assistant | Norwich, Norfolk |
| SMITH, Gilbert Oswald | Boarder | Single | M | 28 | Schoolmaster Assistant | Croydon, Surrey |
| OAKLEY, William J | Boarder | Single | M | 27 | Schoolmaster Assistant | Shrewsbury, Salop |
| BROWN, Arthur N | Boarder | Single | M | 36 | Schoolmaster Assistant | Nayland, Suffolk |
| BLORE, William Parry | Boarder | Single | M | 25 | Schoolmaster Assistant | Canterbury, Kent |
| STANBOROUGH, Walter F H | Boarder | Single | M | 31 | Schoolmaster Assistant | Cleobury North, Salop |
| JUCKES, Selina | Servant | Single | F | 50 | Matron Domestic | Ledbury, Herefordshire |
| WILDING, Mabel M E | Servant | Single | F | 16 | Housemaid Domestic | Highgate, Middlesex |
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Arthur Dunn had recruited a number of eminent sportsmen to assist him as masters and was succeeded, on his premature death, by two England international football captains, Gilbert Oswald Smith and William John Oakley, who became joint headmasters. The 1911 eleven census records the following at Ludgrove:
| SMITH, Gilbert | Head | Single | M | 38 | Schoolmaster | Surrey Croydon |
| SMITH, Katherine | Sister | Single | F | 46 | Middlesex Harrow | |
| BROWN, Arthur Neville | Assistant | Single | M | 46 | Schoolmaster | Nayland Suffolk |
| STANBURGH, Walter | Assistant | Single | M | 40 | Schoolmaster | Cleobury North Shorpshire |
| BLORE, William | Assistant | Single | M | 35 | Schoolmaster | Kent Canterbury |
| BIRD, Wilfred | Assistant | Single | M | 27 | Schoolmaster | Yiewsley Middlesex |
| OAKLEY, William | Assistant | Single | M | 37 | Schoolmaster | Shorpshire Shrewsbury |
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| The Earl Of Brecknock | Boarder | M | 11 | School | London St Georges Hanover SQ | |
| ALLEN, John | Boarder | M | 10 | School | Northants Brackley | |
| ANDERSON, Rupert | Boarder | M | 10 | School | Surrey Tilford | |
| BARING, Honble Alexander | Boarder | M | 12 | School | London Westminster | |
| BARRY, Hubert | Boarder | M | 12 | School | London Knightsbridge | |
| BOGLE-SMITH, James | Boarder | M | 13 | School | London Knightsbridge | |
| BRIDGEMAN, Geoffrey | Boarder | M | 12 | School | London Marylebone | |
| BUTT-MILLER, George | Boarder | M | 10 | School | Wilts Cricklade | |
| BUXTON, Desmond | Boarder | M | 13 | School | Norfolk Thorpe Norwick | |
| CLUTTERBUCK, Hugh | Boarder | M | 10 | School | Bucks Aylesbury | |
| COVENTRY, Charles | Boarder | M | 10 | School | London Westminster | |
| COVENTRY, Honble George | Boarder | M | 10 | School | Worcestershire U K | |
| CURZON, Richard | Boarder | M | 12 | School | Derby Weston Underwood | |
| DRAGE, Thomas | Boarder | M | 10 | School | Lancs Thurston | |
| DUDLEY-SMITH, Osbert | Boarder | M | 12 | School | London Westminster | |
| DUGDALE, James | Boarder | M | 12 | School | London Knightsbridge | |
| FENWICK, Charles | Boarder | M | 10 | School | London Kensington | |
| FERGUSON, Andrew | Boarder | M | 11 | School | London Westminster | |
| FERGUSON, Victor | Boarder | M | 13 | School | Australia N S W Sydney | |
| FORDE, Thomas | Boarder | M | 12 | School | Dublin Dublin Ireland | |
| FORSTER, Alfred | Boarder | M | 13 | School | Hants Exbury | |
| GRANT, Alexander | Boarder | M | 9 | School | India Simla | |
| GURNEY, Cecil | Boarder | M | 9 | School | Norfolk Norwick | |
| GWYNNE, David | Boarder | M | 12 | School | Warwick Leamington | |
| HARCOURT-VERNON, Egerton | Boarder | M | 11 | School | Notts Retford | |
| HARGREAVES, John | Boarder | M | 11 | School | London Kensington | |
| HART-DYKE, Ashley | Boarder | M | 11 | School | Surrey Wimbledon | |
| HEATHCOAT-AMORY, Derick | Boarder | M | 11 | School | London Marylebone | |
| HEBER-PERCY, Hugh | Boarder | 13 | School | London Westminster | ||
| HILL-WOOD, Basil | Boarder | M | 11 | School | London Westminster | |
| HILL-WOOD, Wilfrid | Boarder | M | 9 | School | London Westminster | |
| HOARE, Bertram | Boarder | M | 9 | School | Glamorgan Cardiff | |
| HOARE, Eustace | Boarder | M | 11 | School | London Kensington | |
| HOARE, Michael | Boarder | M | 11 | School | Hants Basingstoke | |
| HOARE, Reginald | Boarder | M | 10 | School | London Marylebone | |
| IMPEY, Lawrence | Boarder | M | 11 | School | Bucks Eton | |
| JARDINE, John | Boarder | M | 11 | School | Edinburgh Scotland | |
| KEPPEL, Honble Edward | Boarder | M | 13 | School | London Westminster | |
| KIDSTON, George | Boarder | M | 11 | School | London Westminster | |
| KNOWLES, Robert | Boarder | M | 13 | School | Derby Brailsford | |
| LEES, Dennis | Boarder | M | 11 | School | Cambs Cambridge | |
| LESLIE, Lionel | Boarder | M | 10 | School | London Marylebone | |
| MICHAEL-LLEWELYN, Charles | Boarder | M | 11 | School | London Westminster | |
| OXLEY, Malcolm | Boarder | M | 11 | School | Sussex Turners Hill | |
| PORCHESTER, Lord | Boarder | M | 12 | School | London Westminster | |
| RENSHAW, Thomas | Boarder | M | 11 | School | London Marylebone | |
| ROMILLY, Lord | Boarder | M | 12 | School | London Westminster | |
| STANCLIFFE, George | Boarder | M | 11 | School | Cheshire Macclesfield | |
| STRICKLAND-CONSTABLE, Henry | Boarder | M | 10 | School | ||
| TABOR, Robert | Boarder | M | 9 | School | Essex Rochford | |
| TRITTON, Geoffrey | Boarder | M | 10 | School | London Knightsbridge | |
| WALKER, Patrick | Boarder | M | 12 | School | Yorks Diddington | |
| WARRENDER, Victor | Boarder | M | 11 | School | London Westminster | |
| WATT, Alvery Hall | Boarder | M | 9 | School | Devon Toquay | |
| WHITBREAD, Peter | Boarder | M | 13 | School | London Westminster | |
| WICKHAM-BOYNTON, Henry | Boarder | M | 10 | School | Yorks Burton Agnes | |
| WODEHOUSE, Honble Edward | Boarder | M | 12 | School | Norfolk Witton | |
| WODEHOUSE, Richard Hall | Boarder | M | 12 | School | Devon Toquay | |
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| BUTTERFIELD, Mary | Servant | Single | F | 46 | Cook | Pauls Walden Herts |
| BUTTERFIELD, Fanny | Servant | Single | F | 50 | Kitchenmaid | Pauls Walden Herts |
| ALDRIDGE, Daisy | Servant | Single | F | 16 | Kitchenmaid | Mortimer Berks |
| FAIRCHILDS, Alice | Servant | Single | F | 17 | Scullary | Hungerford Berks |
| HOOK, Gertrude | Servant | Single | F | 25 | Pantry Maid | Godalming Surrey |
| MAY, Louise | Servant | Single | F | 23 | Pantry Maid | Mortimer Berks |
| ALDHOUS, Jessie | Servant | Single | F | 31 | House Maid | Cambridge |
| KINGSWELL, Winifred | Servant | Single | F | 31 | Parlour Maid | Bishopstone Salisbury |
| SHARP, Lucy | Servant | Single | F | 33 | Matron | Pauls Walden Herts |
| FAIRS, Alice | Servant | Single | F | 16 | House Maid | Reading Berks |
| WYLDE, Edith | Servant | Single | F | 18 | House Maid | Hungerford Berks |
| BLAKE, Alice | Servant | Single | F | 15 | House Maid | Upper Edmonton |
| GLADDING, Ellen | Servant | Single | F | 16 | House Maid | Hades Hill Herts |
| MURRAY, Margaret | Servant | Single | F | 42 | Hospital Nurse | London Marylebone |
| JUCKES, Selina | Servant | Single | F | 60 | Matron | Herefordshire Ledbury |
| MORRIS, Lilian | Servant | Single | F | 19 | Housemaid | Hertfordshire Gilston |
In 1937 the school moved to Wokingham, Berkshire, and former old boys at it Berkshire address include Prince William, Prince Harry and the Duke of Kent. For more information about the Berkshire School as it is now see http://www.ludgrove.net