3-028-646 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Hellmuth College at London, Ontario, Canada West, 1870. 'This institution...is named after its president [and founder], the Very Rev. I. Hellmuth, Dean of Huron, and Rector of "St. Paul's Cathedral," in the same little town of "London"...[He] is neither a native of the dominion of Canada, nor is he, we believe, an Englishman. He is a gentleman of Jewish family from Poland, educated at Breslau, who embraced Christianity...[and] went to settle in Canada; after which, having entered the English ministry, and having come into a considerable property, he conceived the idea of extending the benefits of a first-class English education to Canada, by the establishment of a public school, of which he undertook the entire risk and burden...There are already 150 boys in the school, from among the best families of the Dominion; and Dean Hellmuth conceived the idea of following up the success by building a similar school for girls...The Hellmuth College for Boys,...to which Dean Hellmuth has devoted more than 80,000 dols. of his private fortune, is conducted on the principles of the best English public schools...Dean Hellmuth has [also] endowed...a theological college for the training of clergymen.' From "Illustrated London News", 1870.