Newland House School was founded in 1897 at Newland House in Oak Lane, Twickenham. The Vicar of Twickenham, George Glossop and his family, who lived at Amyand House, commissioned the architect,
Robert W. Edis, FSA, to build them a new home in the grounds of their house and they moved into the newly-built property in 1871. The house was named after Reverend Glossop’s mother, who had died in 1870: her maiden name was Newland. On its opening in 1897, the new school is believed to have been briefly named 'Amyand House School' in memory of Glossop's earlier home, but soon took the name of the building it occupied, to become known as 'The Newland House School'. It moved to a larger site in Strawberry Hill Road, Twickenham, in about 1930 and then to its present site in Waldegrave Park between 1944 and 1945, when for a time it also became known as 'Twickenham Grammar School'. From 1888, the original house at 32 Waldegrave Park, on which the existing main school building is based, was known as 'Heriotdene', and became the home of Henry Cheers, a highly successful Victorian and Edwardian architect from
Chester, who designed many schools, town halls and libraries across England: among them Hull Northern Library in 1895; the 'Victoria Jubilee Technical School' of
Preston, Lancashire, in 1897 (since renamed the 'Harris Building', and now forming the main administrative block of the
University of Central Lancashire); Chorley Training College in 1905 (now Chorley Public Library); and town halls from Oswestry and Halifax to Hereford and East Ham. He also designed several chapels and churches and the original
Carnegie Library, Teddington in 1906. The current Head is Chris Skelton who was appointed in September 2019 and was formerly Deputy Head (Academic) at Newton Prep School. ==Notable former pupils==