Missionary school, kent

[oakhambred]

Hi,
I have William Robert Dennis, b1853, Middlesex.  In 1861 he is a school, I think the census says Missionary School, Lee, Kent, Christchurch Uk.  Would this be a private school ?  His parents were missionaries so perhaps he was boarding while they were abroad.

Regards

Julie

[ShaunJ]

There's a web page which contains a lot of biographical data on the headmaster, William George Lemon, including this:

"The following year William George was appointed to a very prestigious post: headmaster of the school run by the London Missionary Society for the sons of its missionaries working abroad.  David Livingstone’s sons had been sent there.  In theory, the London Missionary Society was non-denominational.  However, it had always had strong Evangelical leanings and William George would not have been appointed unless he had shared those views.  He was a Congregationalist; and soon after his appointment he married a Baptist.  When he took up the post, the school was based in houses in Mornington Crescent, just north of Euston Road.  In 1857, he helped supervise the school’s move to a building at Blackheath that had been built for the purpose, where it remained until long after he left it in 1866.  "

 
http://www.wrightanddavis.co.uk/GD/LEMONWILLIAMG.htm

[oakhambred]

Thank you,

It must have been expensive to be a pupil there. 

Regards

Julie

[ShaunJ]

I would think that the school would have been heavily subsidised by the London Missionary Society.