About John Haden Badley
John Haden Badley was an English author, educator, and founder of Bedales School, which claims to have become the first coeducational boarding public school in England in 1893. John Haden Badley (21 February 1865 – 6 March 1967) was an English author, educator, and founder of Bedales School, which claims to have become the first coeducational boarding public school in England in 1893. At Cambridge, Badley became a lifelong socialist, influenced by the ideals of William Morris about art and community life. Graduating from Cambridge with a first class classics degree in 1887, Badley heard about the plans for Reddie's school through his university friend Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson when he came down in 1888, went there and was fascinated.
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