March 6, 1967

John Haden Badley (February 21, 1865 to March 6, 1967) came from a middle class background and
studied at Trinity College, Cambridge. He became a lifelong socialist, an early support of women's suffrage, and educational pioneer. Badley founded Bedales,(1893) an early "progressive school," based not on the classics, but a broader curriculum including science, art, and by 1899, the principle of coeducation. Religion at Bedales was non-sectarian but the subject of religion occupied the founder of one of the first progressive schools and was the subject of several of the books he wrote.

After the death of his wife, he lived again at the school he had guided for decades. There, he had a white cat he was very fond of. The cat died at the age of 8 years, and the staff found another similar cat for Badley then.

We found this detail in John Haden Badley, 1865-1967: Bedales School and its Founder (1967), which is a newer edition of Badley's book on his school, and which  includes reminescences of others.