Founded in 1885 by sisters Penelope, Dorothy, and Millicent Lawrence, Roedean School was originally known as Wimbledon House and based in Kemp Town, Brighton, with ten students. The founders aimed to provide ‘a thorough physical, intellectual and moral’ education with ‘as much liberty as is consistent with safety.’ The founding Lawrence sisters believed that girls deserved an education which was at least as good as boys had – and articulated this in their founding vision.
