 Montagu Norman, Governor of the Bank of England, was a resident from 1904 until his death in 1950.Priscilla Cecilia Maria Reyntiens joined Norman at Thorpe Lodge following their marriage 21 January 1933.When plans to build the school were revealed in 1956, local residents formed an action group to stop the building, among its members was the future poet laureate John Betjeman, who worried about the trees; the naturalist Peter Scott, who claimed the children would frighten away nightingales; and the High Commissioner of South Africa, who feared that his garden parties would be ruined.