This is the first history of English public schools founded by
Evangelicals in the nineteenth century. Five existing public schools can
be traced back to this period: Cheltenham College, Dean Close School,
Monkton Combe School, Trent College, and St Lawrence's College. Some of
these schools were set up in direct competition with new Anglo-Catholic
schools, while others drew their inspiration from and, to a greater or
lesser extent, were modelled on their rivals. Harris documents, for the
first time, the rise of Evangelical societies such as the influential
Church Association and the little-known Clerical and Lay Associations.
An extensive bibliography and useful biographical survey of influential
Evangelicals of the period completes this groundbreaking study. ""Khim
Harris's perceptive study establishes how Victorian Anglican
Evangelicals were committed to providing middle-class education. Some
schools were founded by visionary individuals, others were established
by bodies like the previously unresearched Clerical and Lay
Associations."" --Alan Munden, The Queen's Foundation, Birmingham, UK
""Evangelicals and Education is a very important book. Khim Harris has
provided us with a thorough-going and scholarly account of some very
significant individual and corporate evangelical initiatives in English
education in the nineteenth century. His work will help the reader to
understand better the educational perspectives of many twentieth-century
and contemporary evangelicals, particularly those influenced by
evangelical Anglicanism."" --John Shortt, Editor, The Journal of
Education and Christian Belief ""Dr Harris's important monograph fills a
gap in the history of Victorian education and evangelicalism, providing
a significant insight into the complexities of Anglican evangelical
involvement in nineteenth-century middle-class schooling."" --W. B.
Stephens, formerly Reader in the History of Education, University of
Leeds Khim Harris was a lecturer in education at the University of
Western Australia before becoming Manager of Education at Perth Zoo. He
has a special interest in the history of the nineteenth century. He is
an active member of St. Matthew's Anglican Church in Shenton Park and is
married with four children.
