Throughout history the women of Sherborne have made huge contributions to life in the town and beyond. These pioneers of the past have shaped the world we live in today. Find out more about these Strong Women of Sherborne. Posted 20 June 2019 by Sherborne School Archives. Visit Sherborne School Archive News for more stories from the … Read more
When Hugo Daniel Harper (1821-1895) was appointed headmaster of Sherborne School in 1850 he brought with him 30 pupils from his former school, Cowbridge Grammar School in the Vale of Glamorgan, including Lewis Morris who went on to became a famous poet of the Anglo-Welsh school. Harper, a graduate of Jesus College, Oxford, had been … Read more
From 1890 to 1893, the Dorset Suffragette Evelina Haverfield (1867-1920) lived at West Hall, an Elizabethan manor house at Folke near Sherborne, Dorset. Three years earlier, in February 1887, Evelina (née Scarlett) had married Major Henry Wykeham Brook Tunstall Haverfield RA (1846-1895) and by 1890 they had two sons, John Campbell Haverfield (1887-1915) and Brook … Read more