Dr. Cyril Norwood Country Life Magazine Portrait December 19 1925

Dr. Cyril Norwood Country Life Magazine Portrait, Frontispiece, December 19 1925. LVIII No. 1511

The featured frontispiece this week is a portrait of Dr. Cyril Norwood, the new headmaster of Harrow. Born in 1875, Dr. Norwood was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and St. John's College, Oxford. He married Miss Catharine Margaret Kilner, daughter of Dr. W. J. Kilner, and has three daughters.

• Education: As your text notes, he was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and St. John's College, Oxford.
• Career Timeline: Before Harrow, he was Headmaster of Bristol Grammar School (1906–1916) and Master of Marlborough College (1917–1925).
• Legacy: He is best known for the 1943 Norwood Report, which introduced the "tripartite system" of secondary education (grammar, technical, and modern schools) to the UK.
• Honors: He was knighted in 1938 for his services to education
• He married Catharine Margaret Kilner (daughter of Dr. W. J. Kilner) in 1901. They had three daughters
• Enid Norwood (born 1902): The eldest daughter, born shortly after her parents' marriage in 1901.
• Aileen Norwood (born 1905): His second daughter. (Note: Some historical sources may list her as Margaret, as in the 1926 snippet you provided, but official university archives record her name as Aileen).
• Barbara Norwood (born 1908): The youngest of the three sisters. (Note: Your snippet refers to her as "Catharine," which was her mother's name, but she was commonly known as Barbara)
• Educational Environment: As children of one of the most famous headmasters in England, they lived in several prestigious academic settings, including Bristol, Marlborough College, and Harrow School.
• International Travel: In the 1930s, the family accompanied Dr. Norwood on a major educational tour across New Zealand, Australia, and the USA.
• Mother's Influence: They were raised by a mother who was highly active in charity work; she was awarded the Médaille de la Reine Elisabeth by the Belgian government for her work with refugees during WWI

This is an authentic original page from Country Life magazine, part of the iconic series often affectionately referred to as the “Girls in Pearls” portraits — elegant society images that captured a distinctive era of British publishing and portraiture.

Size: Approximately 13.75 x 9 inches (35 x 23 cm)

Condition: Very good for its age. As with all vintage magazine pages, light signs of handling or minor age-related blemishes may be present. Please review the large photo carefully for full condition details.

This original Country Life Magazine frontispiece portrait forms part of The Old Map Shop’s curated archive of society portraits published between 1897 and 2026.