Montie's Pals....

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Rev’d.FRANCIS BENJAMIN MAYO*,M.A.: Private Tutor, 6 Glenluce Road, Blackheath. (1903).* The Mayos were closely related to the Druitts and the Eltons.

Mayo, Francis Benjamin: Worcester College, Oxford, 2nd Class BA Theology 1886, MA 1889, Assistant Master at Blackheath Proprietary School, Norella, Glenluce Road, Blackheath. This was 1.0-1.5 mile to the notheast of Valentine's school.

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From the Schools Inquiry Commission (1868):

Blackheath Proprietary School is a school of the first grade It 3 was opened in 1830 and is not a commercial speculation there being no division of dividend but all surplus funds being employed for the benefit of the school The points chiefly worthy of notice in the rules and regulations are (a) that the annual fee for tuition is 20 l. with 20 s. additional towards the maintenance of the exhibition fund (b) that there is a minimum admission examination but not one graduated according to age (c) that an examination of the pupils is to take place immediately before the Midsummer vacation on a plan to be formed by the head master and approved by the committee (d) that the head master must be a clergyman (e) that he may suspend offending pupils but must forthwith report such suspension with the cause thereof to the visitor for the information and decision of the committee of management who if they see fit may expel the offending pupil But the proprietor on whose share such pupil was admitted shall have the right of appeal to a general meeting of proprietors to be convened forthat purpose The school has exhibitions to the universities and scholarships tenable at the school and is well supplied in this respect The pupils of this school have done well of late years at Oxford and Cambridge and in the competitive examinations There is a modern department in the school which is well filled and conducted.

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I think we already know about this student of Montie's but here is Stanley Bousflield:

Bousfield, Stanley son of John Bousfield deceased and Sarah Courtenay Born at Lee Kent June 22 1871 Educated at Eliot Place School five years under Mr Valentine and King's College London Admitted Oct 1 1889 BA 1892 Nat Sci Tripos 1892 PI cl in Medical student in London 1898