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Larchfield Academy (often called Larchfield School) was a preparatory school for boys in Colquhoun Street, Helensburgh and was founded in 1858. Larchfield Academy had existed in various forms and in other buildings prior to that, with the original year of foundation given as 1845.
Larchfield Academy (often called Larchfield School) was a preparatory school for boys in Colquhoun Street, founded in 1858. Among its famous pupils were author Sir James Frazer and TV inventor John Logie Baird. In the late 1920s and early 1930s Cecil Day-Lewis and W.H.Auden taught there briefly.
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Established from the amalgamation of Larchfield Academy and St. Bride’s School for Girls, both of which date back to the 19th Century, Lomond School holds on to many of the traditions from our founding schools, whilst remaining true to our motto, Prospiciamus, ‘let us look forward’.
Mar 8, 2017 · Larchfield, originally a boys' preparatory school called Larchfield Academy, is of course now part of Lomond School, further west on Stafford Street, and the book will be launched at the school later this month. The formal launch will be on the official publication day two days later at Waterstones Roadshow in Manchester.
- Craig Borland
History. Lomond School was the result of a merger between Larchfield School (founded 1845 and previously called Larchfield Academy) and St Bride's School for Girls (founded 1895) in 1977. Larchfield Academy (often called Larchfield School) was a preparatory school for boys in Colquhoun Street, Helensburgh and was founded in 1858.
Apr 4, 2010 · FAMOUS poet W.H.Auden spent two years teaching at Helensburgh boys prep school Larchfield Academy (later School) in his early twenties. Wystan Hugh Auden was born in York, North Yorkshire, in 1907 as the son of George Augustus Auden, a distinguished physician, and Rosalie (Bicknell) Auden.
In the summer of 1930, W. H. Auden moved to Scotland to become a schoolmaster. A position had been vacated by his friend Cecil Day-Lewis at Larchfield Academy, Helensburgh, a school that had once been prestigious but was now low on numbers and poorly managed.
