Hillbrow School

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Hillbrow School was an English boys' preparatory school founded in 1859 in Rugby. Its founder was John William Joseph Vecquerary, a Prussian who had been hired at Rugby School to teach modern languages. Hillbrow was a feeder school to Rugby, but Vecquerary stayed at Rugby. In 1870 the school moved to a new building on Barby Road, and the name Hillbrow came from that building. The next head, Thomas Bainbridge Eden, ran a small school of about forty pupils. Eden left in 1908 after a scandal about his interest in pupils. In 1917 during World War I the school moved to Overslade House in Rugby, and in 1922 W.S. Dixon took over. In 1940 a landmine exploded near Overslade and blew out the windows; the school was evacuated to Featherstone Castle in Northumberland. George Bennett became head in 1953, but was soon followed by D.N. Clark-Lowes. In 1961 the school merged with St Nicholas's School and moved to Ridley Hall in Northumberland. In 1962 Clark-Lowes resigned, and the Hillbrow name was dropped. St Nicholas's closed a few years later.