What was the name of the boarding school C.S. Lewis attended in England as a boy?

C.S. Lewis attended Wynyard School in Watford, England, after his family moved from Belfast. He entered the school in 1908, when he was about nine years old, and remained there until it closed in 1910.

The school’s closure was caused by the headmaster, Robert Capron, being committed to an asylum. After Wynyard closed, Lewis attended Campbell College in Belfast briefly and then studied privately under William T. Kirkpatrick. Kirkpatrick’s rigorous teaching had a major influence on Lewis’s intellectual development.

Some accounts connect Lewis’s early education mainly with his later tutors because Kirkpatrick became so important in his life. Wynyard is nevertheless a distinct part of his childhood history. Lewis later transformed memories of boarding-school culture and authority into elements of his fiction and autobiography.