Cecil Grant

Headmaster at Harpenden In 1906 Grant moved to Harpenden, to establish a school there; it opened in 1907. The premises were initially occupied by the United Services College, that had taken over St George's School where Robert Henry Wix was headmaster from 1887 to 1904.

Grant was headmaster of the new St George's School from 1907 to 1936.

James Valentine (1879/80–1920), son of George Valentine, taught at Keswick Grammar School, then St George's School, Harpenden, before becoming headmaster of Harwich County School in 1909, dying in that post. He was a graduate of the University of St Andrews who had acted as assistant to John Burnet. The Suffolk school authorities cited his scholarship, experience with co-education, and enthusiasm.

Other staff at St George's, Harpenden included Paul Roberts, later headmaster of Frensham Heights School, and J. Howard Whitehouse, founder in 1919 of Bembridge School.

Aspects of progressive education In 1913, at the prompting of Edmond Holmes, Cecil visited Maria Montessori's school, the Casa dei Bambini in Rome. He became a proponent of Montessori education, but found that it was contentious in the United Kingdom, with Charlotte Mason, whose House of Education at Ambleside he had intended to visit, strongly opposed.

Death Cecil Grant died on 3 April 1946, and left a sum of £6,833.53 to form a trust for the school.

Family Grant married in 1898 Lucy Mary Thompson, youngest daughter of William Thompson of Haslemere, Ipswich, founder of Thompson & Morgan. His father's address was given as Belmont Grove, Lee, Kent.

Works A School's Life, Addresses (1903) The Case for Co-education (1913) with Norman Hodgson English Education and Dr. Montessori (1913)