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Roedean School (/ ˈ r oʊ d iː n /) is a private boarding and day school founded in 1885 in Roedean Village on the outskirts of Brighton, East Sussex, England, and governed by Royal Charter. It is for girls aged 11 to 18.
The Roedean legacy. Founded in 1885 by sisters Penelope, Dorothy and Millicent Lawrence, Roedean School was originally known as Wimbledon House and based in Kemp Town, Brighton, with 10 pupils.
Founded in 1885 by three entrepreneurial sisters, Penelope, Dorothy and Millicent Lawrence - known locally as ‘the Firm’, Roedean was originally located on a site in Lewes Crescent in central Brighton, moving to its spectacular cliff top site 13 years after the school first opened its doors.
This most famous of girls’ schools was founded in October 1885, with ten girls and no particular name, at 25 Lewes Crescent by the Misses Dorothy, Millicent and Penelope Lawrence, in an effort to provide more than the rudimentary education that it was then customary for girls to receive.
When Roedean School was founded by the Lawrence sisters in 1885, its aim was to provide ‘a thorough physical, intellectual and moral’ education with ‘as much liberty as is consistent with safety’.
Penelope "P.L." Lawrence aka Nelly (10 November 1856 – 3 July 1932) was a British co-founder of Roedean School in Brighton with her half sisters, Dorothy Lawrence and Millicent Lawrence .
Founded in 1915. The St Dunstan’s Institute for men and women blinded on war service, was founded by Sir Arthur Pearson, in February 1915 at Bayswater Road, London, as the Blind Soldiers and Sailors Hostel. By 1918 nearly 2,000 blinded men were being trained for work in the outside world.
