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Who established Englandâs first infant school in London in 1818?
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Englandâs first infant school was established in London in 1818 by James Buchanan.1
While the Scottish reformer Robert Owen is often associated with the early infant-school movement for founding an institute at his model community in New Lanark in 1816, it was Buchananâthe man who had directed Owenâs instituteâwho brought those methods to London to open the first such school in England.1