Alfred Herbert's Schooldays
The Stoneygate Class Lists of 30th July 1880. Click to read. 'Herbert' is mentioned on both pages. Alfred Herbert went to school at Stoneygate , a private school on the outskirts of Leicester with - in those days - some 50 pupils. The class list for July 1880, when Alfred was 14, show him excelling at divinity, English and the sciences. In that year, he won the Class II prize jointly with another boy, as well as a music prize. He still had at least two or three years to go and was must have been top of Class I when he left. Interestingly, the boy next to him in class was William S Hubbard who excelled in maths, algebra and geometry and with whom he later went into business. Also, above him in Class 1 was David Gimson , who went on to be an accountant and in 1918 became the Financial Director of Alfred Herbert Ltd, only retiring in 1953. Although Alfred was expected to go on to university and into the church when he left school, he met up with Hubbard, who had joined Joseph Jes...