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Stoke House School was a preparatory school. We have no current information on the school. It prepared boys for Eton. The school was located at Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, not far from Windsor and Eton. We have a photograph taken by an Eton photographer in 1900. It is of the Stoke House Cricket X1 : Summer Term.
Stoke House School was a preparatory school. We have no current information on the school. It prepared boys for Eton. The
school was located at Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, not far from Windsor and Eton.
The photograph shows the Stoke House Cricket X1 : Summer Term 1900. The boys wear peaked caps, white shirts, and white flannel long trousers. The caps were in concentric circles. They were in the school colors, but I'm not sure what they were. The boys wear long sleeve white shirts with soft collars. Some have rolled up their sleeves. Most of the boys had buttoned their collars. Almost certainly they would have worn Eton collars with the school uniform. While the boys wore long white flannels for cricket, it is likely that they wore knickers suits for their school uniform. They do no wear blazers. I'm not sure why they are not wearing blazers. Boys at public (elite private) schools did commonly wear blazers. Perhaps blazers were less common at prep schools.
The photo was taken by an Eton photographer. This photograph is dated. It was taken in 1900.
The headmaster was Edward Parry, chairman of the local Parish Council. He was the first chairman from 1894 to 1896 and from 1898 to 1913. He was the headmaster of Stoke School at Stoke House, Stoke Green, a private preparatory school for Eton College and other schools. His father founded the school and he succeeded him. Parry was a churchwarden at St. Giles' Church. He was born in 1856, was a well-known sportsman in Canada and he left Stoke Poges in 1913."
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Many of these school phoogrphs have the names of the boys. In this case, one of these boys (R.D. Furse) appeared in an undated photograph of another school, Suffield Park, which helps to date it, probably to about 1898. Furse in the Suffield Park photograph is standing third on the left from the boy with the camera (named Buxton) and is wearing a cap, suit and waistcoat and is having problems with his Eton Collar. Apparently R.D.Furse left Suffield Park School in Cromer to continue his education at Stoke House. The photo shows that R.D.Furse had an elder brother as the team list on
the back reveals that there is a Furse Major and Furse Minor. I believe these are the two boys standing in the middle of the back row - with R.D.Furse being the younger boy on the right. The note on the back also reveals that Furse Major is leaving to go to Radley College--a prestigious British public school.
The team list reveals a Parry Major and a Parry Minor in the cricket team. Perhaps they were the headmasters sons.
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