Elmfield College
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Elmfield College was a Primitive Methodist college which existed in Heworth, York, from around 1860 to around 1930, when it merged with Ashville College.
The college was on the outskirts of Heworth, near Monk Stray. All that is left of the college now is numbers 1 and 9 Straylands Grove, next to Monk Stray. However, the area now covered by numbers 3, 5 and 7, along with a lot of the surrounding land was once built upon by the college, which was an educational pioneer in many ways. No. 1 pre-dated the college and No. 9 was built in the 1920's as the headmaster's house. (The owners have recently renamed the house to reflect this fact.)
[edit] People associated with Elmfield College
- Thomas Johnson (1863-1954), botanist - studied at Elmfield College
- Edward Thaddeus Barleycorn Barber was a student from Santa Isabel/Maribo in Equatorial Guinea who went to Elmfield College c.1886/87 before going to Edinburgh University. He was one of the first black people in York and is presumably linked with William Barleycorn, the Primitive Methodist missionary who went to Fernando Po a few years earlier.
- James Calvert Spence (1892 - 1954), the originator of Social Paediatrics
 |
This United Kingdom university, college or other education institution article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
