page_title: Wellesley College, New Zealand
section_title: Wellington Diocesan Boys' School —Croydon
hierarchical_section_title: Wellesley College, New Zealand / History / Wellington Diocesan Boys' School —Croydon
caption_attribution_description: English: Crop from group shot of masters of Wellington College New Zealand in 1927, background simplified
context_page_description: Wellesley College is a boys-only independent primary school in Days Bay, Eastbourne, New Zealand.
context_section_description: In April 1919 the Wellington Diocesan Church Schools Board purchased Croydon (and also Mrs Swainson's school renaming it Marsden).
  Croydon would be a boarding school. The Board already had day schools in: Waverley, Masterton, Taihape, Marton, Hawera, and at St Mark's Wellington.
  Board personnel were: Dr Sprott (bishop), Miss Baber (Marsden school), Rev R Franklin (St Barnabas Roseneath, diocesan organising secretary), Messrs. A E Mabin, W J Birch, G Shirtcliffe and J F Studholme. 
  The generous help of the last four men as guarantors was acknowledged by the bishop when the school re-opened on 6 June 1919. The bishop advised that failing health had obliged Miss Sommerville to retire and she would not remain head of the school having given her "strong opinion" that the school should have a headmaster. The Rev R H Hobday had been appointed. The opening ceremony concluded with the hearty singing of the National Anthem.
  The new name for the school did not 'stick' and soon it reverted to Croydon.
caption: Hutton Stevens 1927 master at Wellington College
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