Percy Ewart Warrington Obituary in Bath at Prior to Now Trust

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Percy Ewart Warrington

Passed 05/11/1961

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Obituary For Percy Ewart Warrington

(29 December 1889 - 5 November 1961)

From The Times, November 7, 1961

FOUNDER OF SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES

The Rev. Percy Ewart Warrington, vicar of Monkton Combe, near Bath, and founder of a number of public schools and colleges, died at a Bath nursing home on Sunday at the age of 72.

He went to Hatfield Hall, Durham, becoming a Licentiate of Theology in 1914 and being ordained the same year.

From then until he became vicar of Monkton Combe in 1918 he was at the Church of St. Matthew, Rugby.

Within 10 years of going to Monkton Combe he had completed six deals for the acquisition of large buildings for school purposes.

During that time he acquired Wrekin College, Shropshire, as a Church of England public school. He bought Stowe House, the home of the Dukes of Buckingham, and directed its conversion into a public school; and Canford Manor, Lord Wimborne's Dorset seat, and turned it into Canford School.

Other purchases were Harrogate College for Girls, on behalf of the Church of England Trust: Westonbirt, Sir George Holford's beautiful Jacobean house in Gloucestershire, as a public school for girls: and Seaford College. Sussex.

A later acquisition was Stoke House, Stoke Bishop, Bristol, which was opened in 1932 as the Bristol Theological College for Church of England candidates for ordination.

Warrington was also interested in founding homes for old people