St Ronan's School

Coordinates: 51°2′56″N 0°32′5″W / 51.04889°N 0.53472°W / 51.04889; -0.53472

Saint Ronan's School is an independent co-educational preparatory school for boys and girls from 3 to 13 years located near Hawkhurst in Kent, England. It currently has about 200 boys and 100 girls, all of them day pupils, although boarding is available from Tuesday night through to Thursday night for all pupils from Year 5 upwards. The present headmaster is William Trelawny-Vernon.

History

The school was founded in 1883 and was originally located in Worthing. During the Second World War, the school was evacuated to Bicton Park in Devon, but afterwards moved to its present location in Tongswood House.

The house was remodelled in the late 19th century for William Cotterill, owner c. 1868 to 1892, of a mercantile family from Birmingham. Tongswood later belonged to Charles Eugene Gunther (died 1931), head of the Liebig Extract of Meat Company which later became known as OXO, who was High Sheriff of Kent in 1926. Tongswood was sold in 1945 by his widow, Lena Gunther, to W. B. Harris, who bought it with the sole purpose of housing St Ronan's.