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Buckingham Browne & Nichols School, often referred to as BB&N, is an independent co-educational day school in Cambridge, Massachusetts, educating students from pre-kindergarten (called Beginners) through twelfth grade. The School has produced three of the 27 Presidential Scholars from Massachusetts since the inception of the program in 1964 and is a member of the G30 Schools group and the Round Square global education association. Origins Browne & Nichols School (B&N) was founded in 1883 by George Henry Browne, a 25-year-old Harvard graduate who, having embarked on a career as a teacher of Latin and English literature, attracted the attention of his former professors Francis J. Child and Charles Eliot Norton. Seeking an alternative to the Cambridge public schools, Child and Norton recruited Browne to teach their three sons and two other boys. At the end of that year, Browne enlisted his Harvard classmate Edgar H. Nichols to join him as the co-head of a new college preparatory school, which opened in the fall with an enrollment of 17, a number that quickly expanded. The Buckingham School was named and incorporated in 1902, but the first schoolhouse was opened in 1892, known as Miss Markham's School after its founding headmistress. Because Jeanette Markham had been conducting classes for small children in a private school since at least 1889, that is the year from which Buckingham dates its beginning. Markham came to Cambridge from Atchison, Kansas to pursue an education at the recently founded women's college later named Radcliffe. Upon arriving in Cambridge, she found a home with Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson on Buckingham Street, to whom she is said to have become "virtually an elder daughter" (59). After she began teaching in a neighbor's home, another neighbor, Mrs. Richard H. Dana, offered to build a schoolhouse and living quarters nearby, where the school began with 12 students. That schoolhouse continues to be part of BB&N's Lower School campus to this day. School buildings and campuses During the year 1882–1883, before Browne & Nichols came into formal existence, founder George H. Browne taught his small group of students in two rooms in Harvard's Felton Hall. With the formation of the school in 1883, instruction took place at 11 Appian Way, with the addition of another building at 8 Garden Street. Radcliffe College, which now occupies this land, wished to expand here, and so it made an exchange with B&N, which relocated in 1897 to a new brick building at 20 Garden Street. That building was designed by Edgar Nichols's sister-in-law, Minerva Parker Nichols, and is said to be "the first important building by a woman architect." Athletics Rowing The name of the school's athletic teams, "the Knights", has its origins in a 1920s Boston Globe article which referred to the rowing team in particular, undefeated against the likes of Harvard, MIT and Kent School, as "the Black Knights of the Charles", itself a reference to the Army Black Knights. In addition to taking the team name, Browne & Nichols also took black and white as its colors after the article. The Buckingham School's colors, blue and gold, were made the combined school's colors after the merger. The school was the first American schoolboy crew to win the Henley Royal Regatta in Henley-on-Thames, England, winning the Thames Challenge Cup in 1929. The Washington Post commented: "The Thames Challenge Cup, prize of England's famous rowing tournament, was captured today by eight young oarsmen from the Browne and Nichols School...The American boys, after each victory, gave a fine display of school spirit and overflowing "pep" which added to their already great popularity on the river...Their success was the more impressive when it is considered that the average age of the oarsmen is younger than the average of their defeated rivals. The boys will be received by the American Ambassador at London Monday and then will begin an educational tour of England." Tennis In 2004, the girls varsity tennis team became ISL Champions for the first time in school history. The boys varsity tennis team won the New England Class B Tournament in 2004, the 2005 ISL Championship, and finished second in the 2007 New England Class B Tournament. Other sports BB&N also has both girls' and boys' hockey teams, although the boys team has had a losing record in the past 4 years and has had 3 different coaches throughout that time. Notable alumni Browne & Nichols Edward Burlingame Hill, class of 1888, American composer Langdon Warner, class of 1898, archaeologist, art historian, and member of World War II Monuments Men Richard Norton, archaeologist, professor, director of the Archaeological Institute of America Arthur L. Conger, class of 1899, noted theosophist and writer Alfred V. Kidder, class of 1903, preeminent early twentieth century archaeologist of the American Southwest and Mesoamerica Thomas Dudley Cabot, class of 1913, American businessman and philanthropist William Bosworth Castle, class of 1914, American physician and pioneer in field of hematology Tadeusz Adamowski, class of 1918, hockey player on Polish Olympic Team (1928), coach of national team Sherwin Badger, class of 1918, national figure skating champion and Silver Medal Olympian John Moors Cabot, class of 1919, U.S. Ambassador to five nations, Georgetown University professor Robert Bradford, class of 1920, Governor of Massachusetts Thomas Hopkinson Eliot, class of 1924, congressman from Massachusetts and chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis, politician and major figure behind the Social Security Act Eliot Noyes, class of 1927, architect and industrial designer John Caskey, class of 1927, American archaeologist and excavator of Troy George C. Homans, class of 1927, American sociologist and founder of behavioral sociology C. Conrad Wright, class of 1933, scholar and American religious historian Charles Pence Slichter, class of 1941, nuclear physicist and winner of the National Medal of Science Robert Brink, class of 1942, violinist, conductor, professor, who premiered works by Walter Piston, Henry Cowell, Alan Hovhaness, and Daniel Pinkham Richard A. Smith, class of 1942, president of General Cinemas, later CEO of Harcourt General Roger Longrigg, class of 1945, Scottish-born author of 55 popular novels Giles Constable, class of 1946, educator and historian of the Middle Ages Kirk Bryan, class of 1947, oceanographer regarded as founder of numerical ocean modeling Charles Colson, class of 1949, chief counsel to President Richard Nixon, Watergate indictee Anthony Perkins, class of 1950, actor most famous for Psycho, Equus, and Friendly Persuasion Jonathan Moore, class of 1950, government official specializing in foreign affairs Allan Rosenfield, class of 1951, physician and advocate for women's health Anton Kuerti, class of 1952, pianist Robert M. O'Neil, class of 1952, college president and founder o.... Discover the L B Buckingham popular books. Find the top 100 most popular L B Buckingham books.