The Philberds
football club
The Philberds was a preparatory school based in a house in Holyport, near Maidenhead, Berkshire, on the site of one which Charles II had given to Nell Gwyn. The name derives from a family that owned land in the area in medieval times.
School founder Edward Henry Price
Edward Henry Price (1822–1898) was educated at Rugby School under Thomas Arnold, arriving in May 1835 at aged 13. He matriculated at St John's College, Cambridge, in 1841and graduating B.A. in 1845, M.A. in 1863.
Ordained deacon in 1845 and priest in 1846, Price spent the years 1845 to 1853 at Lutterworth as a curate. He founded The Philberds in 1862, having previously founded a school at Tarvin in Cheshire, which he moved to become Mostyn House School in Cheshire in 1855. In 1862 he sold Mostyn House School to Algernon Sydney Grenfell.
Price was headmaster of The Philberds from 1862 until 1879. The initial school fee was 80 guineas per annum. He succeeded in building the reputation of Philberds as a preparatory school.
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