Photos of Sri Aurobindo / 2. ENGLAND. 1879-1888

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2. ENGLAND. 1879-1888
(7-16 YEARS OLD)

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Sri Aurobindo's family
London. Circa 1879

Sri Aurobindo (sitting)
with brothers
London. Circa 1879

Enlarged and largely retouched

Drewett's house
Manchester, 84 Shakespeare St.
Aurobindo's father took his three sons to England and placed them with an English clergyman (Drewett) and his wife. Drewett taught Aurobindo Latin and history, Drewett's wife - French, geography, arithmetic.

Victorian building in Manchester with sign showing location of the former Shakespeare Street

Entrance of the former Manchester Grammar School building where Benoybhushan and Manmohan (Sri Aurobindo's older brothers) studied

Sri Aurobindo
London. Circa 1884

The first house in London where Sri Aurobindo stayed (1884-7)
49 St Stephen's Avenue, Shepherd's Bush, London. A late 20th-century photograph
Drewett emigrated at Australia and boys moved at London - to Drewett's mother. This was time of greatest suffering and poverty. Old Mrs. Drewett was fervently Evangelical and she said she would not live with an atheist (Manmohan) as the house might fall down on her.

St. Pauls School where Sri Aurobindo and his brothers studied
St.Stephen's Avenue, 49, Shehperd's Bush, London. September 1884 - Aurobindo and his older brother Manomohan accepted at St. Pauls School. Aurobindo did brilliantly at his examinations and at once was accepted at the third class.

St. Pauls School

St. Pauls School, 1886

Classroom at St. Pauls School

Eskin House
13 Ambleside Road, Keswick, where in 1886 Sri Aurobindo and his brothers stayed at during holidays

Moot Hall
Photo of 19-th century of Ambleside Road, Keswick, where in 1886 Sri Aurobindo and his brothers stayed at during holidays

2 Plynlimmon Terrace, Hastings,
where in 1887 Sri Aurobindo and his brothers stayed at during holidays

The second house in London where Sri Aurobindo stayed
128 Cromwell Road, London. In the autumn of 1887 Sri Aurobindo and his brothers moved to this house which was then the headquarters of the South Kensington branch of The Liberal Club.

The same building