An attractive original late 1880's high quality photographic cabinet Portrait card featuring a sepia portrait of a smartly dressed man in straw boater hat wearing a crucifix and leaning against rocks. Identified to the reverse as 'Probably Herbert William S.K'. Published by H.S Mendelssohn, South Kensington, London. 

Overall size approx 6 1/2 x 4 1/4" (16.5cm x 11cm).

H.S Mendelssohn, 27 Cathcart Road, South Kensington, London S.W.

High Art Photographer to her Majesty the Queen and Royal Family

(Herbert William Sneyd-Kynnersley 23rd April 1848 - 1st November 1886). 

Winston Churchill's headmaster at St George's School, Ascot.

In near Very Good condition.

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Winston Churchill’s formidably strict headmaster at St George’s School in Ascot, Berkshire during the late 19th century.

St George's School, Ascot, is a thriving boarding and day school for girls aged eleven to eighteen. It was founded in 1877 by The Reverend Herbert William Sneyd-Kynnersley as a boys' Prep School with just forty-one pupils. Sneyd-Kynnersley is listed on the Plantagenet Roll as being of Royal Blood and was the son of a Birmingham magistrate.

From 1882 to 1884, Winston Churchill was a pupil, starting at the tender age of seven. He refers to the school in his book, My Early Life, as "one of the most fashionable and expensive in the country." It modelled itself upon Eton and aimed at being preparatory for that Public School. It was supposed to be the very latest thing in schools; "only ten boys in a class; electric light; a swimming pond; spacious football and cricket grounds; a chapel of its own."

Sneyd-Kynnersley who was renowned for his merciless attitude towards boys in his charge. The headmaster was feared for his severe floggings

Son of Thomas Clement Sneyd-Kynnersley JP and Eliza Rose (Sanders) Sneyd-Kynnersley

Brother of Thomas Alfred Sneyd-Kynnersley, Mary Palmer Sneyd-Kynnersley, Edmund McKenzie Sneyd-Kynnersley, Anna Catherine Emily Sneyd-Kynnersley, Charles Walter Sneyd-Kynnersley CMG, Henry Francis Sneyd-Kynnersley and Harriet Victoria Sneyd-Kynnersley