# Eva Gilpin

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**Eva Margaret Gilpin**, known as **Lady Sadler** upon her marriage, (25 March 1868 – 23 September 1940) was a [British](/source/United_Kingdom_of_Great_Britain_and_Ireland) headmistress and educationist. She founded the Hall school in [Weybridge](/source/Weybridge).

## Life

Gilpin was born in [Nottingham](/source/Nottingham) in 1868. Her Quaker parents were Margaret (born Binns) and Edmund Octavius Gilpin. Her family had several notable members including her younger brother [Harry Gilpin](/source/Harry_Gilpin).[1] She was given a Quaker education at [Ackworth School](/source/Ackworth_School) where there was learning tracts and the art classes concentrated on the means of production.[1]

She was a teacher in London but she left that to go to Yorkshire in 1892 where she was to be the governess of five of William and Anna Harvey's children in [Ilkley](/source/Ilkley). The Harvey's were her cousins. Her class expanded when [Michael Sadler](/source/Michael_Sadler_(educationist)) came to visit and he and his wife, [Mary](/source/Mary_Sadler), decided to leave [their son](/source/Michael_Sadleir) under her care during term time. She was in Ilkley for three years until in 1895 she moved to the Sadler's household in Weybridge. Her ambition was to found a school and in 1898 the *Village Hall School* started in Weybridge's village Hall. In time it would be called *The Hall School*. The school expanded as Sadler lauded the school and her approach. Two years after the school was founded she was able to buy a house of her own. It is possible that the Sadlers kept the school running. The decorations of the walls of the school included a painting by [Paul Gauguin](/source/Paul_Gauguin) which they had lent.[1]

Her school had a novel approach. The pupil would learn expressive dance and they had their own parliament. She introduced lino cutting to the school and soon the whole school was involved in creating a limited edition publication.[2]

Gilpin died in 1940 at her home in [Headington](/source/Headington). The year before "her" school had moved to [Bratton Seymour](/source/Bratton_Seymour) in Somerset because of the war. The school remained there until it was closed in 1983.[3]

## References

1. Matthew, H. C. G. (ed.) (2004-09-23). ["The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography"](http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/71922). pp. ref:odnb/71922. [doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/71922](https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/71922). Retrieved 2023-02-18.

1. Pickering, Oliver (February 2012). ["Education as Exploration: Sir Michael Sadler, Eva Gilpin, and Artwork at the Hall School Weybridge"](https://ospickering.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/hall-school-talk-revised-nov-2016.pdf) (Essay). – via University of Leeds.

1. ["THE HALL SCHOOL OLD SCHOLARS' ASSOCIATION, BRATTON SEYMOUR"](https://somerset-cat.swheritage.org.uk/records/A/AYQ). *somerset-cat.swheritage.org.uk*. Retrieved 2023-02-18.

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