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Description: | St. James's Preparitory School was founded by the Butt family as a catholic boarding school. It had a number of names over the years. It was first known as the "Classical Academy", later the "Catholic Classical Academy", "St. James' Catholic Classical and Commercial School", on this pamphlet as "St. James's Preparatory School", but it was normally refered to as the Baylis House School. It was founded by two brothers, William Henry Butt and James Palmer Butt in 1830. Amongst the most famous old boys were Cardinal Merry del Val and Sir Leslie Ward who as SPY drew pictures for "Vanity Fair" magazine. The school remained at Baylis House until 1907, then, under the principalship of Miss Butt, moved to Milford House & St. Hilaire on Windsor Road. It's last recorded appearence in Slough was in the 1936 Kelly's directory. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Subjects: | Public Schools Baylis House ; St. James's Preparatory School ; Catholic Classical Academy; St. James' Catholic Classical and Commercial School ; Butt | Temporal: | start=1830-01-01; end=1938-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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