Berkshire Record Office Collections

DEX2479 - Records relating to Courtenay Lodge School, Sutton Courtenay and Jacques Grumbar, pupil.

Catalogue Reference	D/EX2479
Title	Records relating to Courtenay Lodge School, Sutton Courtenay and Jacques Grumbar, pupil.
Description	The collection includes records relating to Jacques Grumbar's time as a pupil at Courtenay Lodge School. Records largely relate to school activites, sports teams, the Old Boys' Association, and the personal school records of Mr Grumbar.
Date	1924-1939
Repository	Berkshire Record Office (code: GB 005)
Level	Fonds
Extent	(1 vol, 4 bdls, 3 docs)
Admin History	Jacques Grumbar was a pupil at Courtenay Lodge School from May 1924 to July 1928. During his study he was a School Prefect, Captain of the Rugby Fifteen, Captain of the Boat Club, and also took part in boxing. He had moved to the school from France and had to learn English as a pupil. Courtenay Lodge School, located in Sutton Courtenay, was a private boys' school founded in 1905 by Captain Thomas Sidney [Sydney] Waterlow-Fox and his wife Jessie Waterlow-Fox. In 1932, T S Waterlow-Fox bought Maiden Erlegh House in Earley and immediately transferred the school to the new premises, renaming the school Maiden Erlegh School for Boys. The school closed in 1945 when T S Waterlow-Fox retired and sold Maiden Erlegh House to the Church Army.
Acquisition	Presented in March 2015 (acc.9591).
Related Material	See D/EX1914 for photographs of Courtenay Lodge School, Sutton Courtenay and Captain Waterlow-Fox, c.1930s-1950s. See also 'Earley Days - An illustrated account of our community's development', Earley Local History Group (2000), and 'Earley Memories - A Century of Change', Earley Local History Group (2004).

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