Local history - Malvern schools then and nowMore about Southlea school and its founderThe following lists provide a snapshot of numbers at the school on census night. The census returns indicate pupils were attracted from all over the United Kingdom, so the school must have had a good reputation and advertised widely. About Arthur Sewell (Principal, 1871-1873) About Edward Roger Cooper Hays the founder of Southlea School Southlea school roll 1911Hugh Edmund Wood 36 Mildred Mary Wood 31 Florence Beatrice Gibbs 26 Marjorie Judith Sugden 21 Bertha Adams 27 William Jevons 21 Leslie Jack Roskams 14 Letham Alan Webber Jones 12 Bemard Duggleby 10 Eustace Charles Keble 12 Robert Victor Jackson 10 Arthur Stannus Jagger 12 Henry Robert Colegrove 11 Charles Eric Palgrave Hooker 12 Rossington Hugh Wood 14 Stanley Gerald Tennyson Holme 11 Arthur Gerald Oxar Andrew 11 Francis John Keble 11 Arthur Gordon Gregor 11 Eric Duggleby 8 Theophilus Henry Cecil Teague 11 John Howard Chalk 9 Geoffrey Thomas Hotchkin 12 Stephen John Guest Gornell 9 Leslie Colbatch Clark 7 Derek Bernhard Smith 9 William Walter 9 Ian Laurence Henderson Mackelot 6 Wilfred Fitz Gerald Wood 7 Richard Shepheard 59 Arthur John Ogilvie 32 Alfred Charles Taylor17 Charles James Zarram 40 George William Percival Kins 30 Southlea school roll 1901Hugh N Fowler 47 Gertrude M Fowler 38 Elinor M Fowler 13 Evelyn G Fowler 12 Hugh C Fowler 8 Reginald C Fowler 1 Mary B Fowler 40 Dorothy F M Fowler 10 John E Hubert George A L Barnes 24 Donald H C Drake 13 Arthur B Fowler 13 Leonard S Kerch 12 Cecil H Chandler 12 William G Tremont 11 William F Carden 9 Robin T Barlow 10 Noel A Barlow 9 Staart W H Hutton 9 Mary Parsons 24 Caroline Morris36 Emma Foxhall 44 Kate Eliza Lowe 21 Gertrude E Allcott 16 Mary E Stephens 16 Southlea school roll 1891Samuel Lathan 56 Emily F Lathan 43 Mabel Lathan 13 Ethel J Mayhew 23 Charles L Mayhew 15 George W Sparrow 14 John A G Sparrow 10 Hugh Ashton 13 Cornelius S Cardew 12 Charles E Darling 14 Arthur C Darling 13 Edward S Donisthorpe 13 Frank W Donisthorpe 12 Richard A S Hill 11 Bawdon H St B Laurie 12 Frank E Lord 13 Herbert J J Peele 11 John E M Rogers10 Richard B Spence 9 Richard G Warren 13 Longuet M Derbyshire 11 Mary Roberts 34 Annie C Hale 22 Ellen Roberts 16 Sarah J Smith 17 Emma Press 31 Ruth Mitchell 28 Southlea school roll 1881Samuel Latham 46 Emily Latham 33 Ernest Latham 12 Henry Latham 10 Mabel Latham 3 John Latham 11 Robert Gordon 14 Cecil E.M. Lewis 13 John N. Cross 11 Henry F.B. Williams 12 George Lord 13 Septimus A. Parkes 11 William W.G. Webb 13 Albert S. Wood 10 Richard E.W. Jennings 10 Thomas G. Sor Lambert 10 John B. Paget 10 Charles J. Paget 11 Oswold S. Bartleet 10 Henry Knowles 9 John Gordon 14 Edward H. Day 11 George H. Schwind 11 Thomas H. Wood11 Sarah Osborn 20 Mary Roberts 24 Emily A. Walker 23 Deborah Rowley 23 Eliza Tricklebank 19 Sarah A. Underwood 16 Southlea school roll 1871Susan Richards 45 Edward T Houghton 24 Maria Carslake 31 Sarah A Dunovant 19 Sarah A Davis 21 Sarah A Jones 18 Fanny Bentley 27 Fredrick Cave 19 Charles M Coates 14 Ratcliffe Crump 11 Fredrick Brammell 13 Edward W Blattwart 15 Farquar Campbell 12 John L Probyn 13 Hewall R Wigreen 13 Alananda R Wigreen11 Walter H Ford 8 Earnest W Moore 11 Charles P Moore 13 Arthur H Cockram 14 Edward W Harris 13 Henry S Harris 10 William O Harris 8 Richard Dighton 11 Alfred T Watson 11 Reginald H Williams 12 Herbert Bracewell 12 Henry Scobell 12 Charles P Aynsley 9 Henry F Lambert 10 Robert W Rushbrooke 13 Howard Gerisa 12 Percy A S Heckley 13 Marek Hertchman 13 George D C Wheeler 12 Lorenzo G Jephson 11 Arthur Wrigley 13 Herbert Somers Cocks 9 John Cockburn 12 Rev Arthur Sewell (Principal, 1871-1873)Arthur Sewell (1841 - 1947), born on the Isle of Wight, was the son of Robert Burleigh Sewell and Eliza Isabella Fenwick. He was educated at Radley and Oxford and entered into Holy Orders in 1866. From 1866 to 1871 he was an assistant master at Malvern College. From 1871 to 1873 he was Principal of Southlea School. He moved on to teach at other preparatory schools and lived to 106. He married Mary Lee Waring and was the father of British military doctor and zoologist Lt Col Robert Beresford Seymour Sewell CIE, FRS (1880-1964). FounderStories about former pupils, legacies and the census returns suggest Southlea school was founded by Edward Roger Cooper Hays who was born in Tewkesbury about 1831. He was the son of Cheltenham solicitor Henry John Whitaker Cooper Roger Hays (b Norfolk 1783 d Cheltenham 1836). The 1851 census records Edward Hays as an undergraduate at Pembroke College Oxford staying with his brother William, a solicitor. The 1861 census records Edward Hays as a schoolmaster BA Oxon and his sister Ellen, at an address simply given as 'School' in Albert Road close to Lawnside. There is another schoolmaster and four servants but only 5 pupils, suggesting the school was only just starting. Ten years later in 1871 the Head of house is recorded as Susan Richards but helpfully a note has been added saying that she was the cousin of Mr 'Hayes' headmaster who is away from home. Records confirm that Susan was the daughter of Edward's aunt Charlotte Hays who married Robert Richards. So it seems Edward Hays still owned Southlea when there were 31 pupils in early 1871. Possibly Edward Hays then went into partnership with Rev Arthur Sewell (see above) who was Principal from about 1871 to 1873 Kelly's Trade Directory of 1872 lists Hays, Edward RC, MA, preparatory school for Eton and Harrow, Southlea, Malvern while Littlebury's directory of 1873 lists Hays, Edward Roger C and Sewell Rev Arthur MA, boarding school for young gentlemen, Southlea, Albert Road. By 1881 Edward Hays is described as a Lithographic Master Printer employing 3 men, a visitor at the home of solicitor Lauriston Dickes. The head of house at Southlea in 1881 was Samuel Latham a Clerk in Holy Orders who was still at the school in 1891. In 1891 Edward Hays is recorded as a printer and manufacturer living in Farley Road, Malvern Link, not far from the present traffic lights. In 1901 clergyman Hugh Newell Fowler was headmaster at Southlea and in 1911 the headmaster was Hugh Edmund Wood. Edward Roger Cooper Hays married first in 1867 schoolmistress Catherine Mary Day nee Pope the widow of curate Edward Day who had two small children, Agnes Catherine Mary Day and Edward Day. In 1873 Edward Hays married second Louisa Kingsbury by whom he had a daughter Margaret Ellen Hays. He retired to 'The Mythe' at the seaside town of Bognor in Sussex, where he died on 26th June 1900. Please email suggestions for corrections or additions to this page to the webmaster |
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