John Lockwood

Adelphi Academy of Brooklyn celebrated its One Hundred and Thirty-Ninth Commencement on Sunday, June 7th, 2009, at eleven o'clock, in the Lockwood Auditorium, named for Adelphi's founding Headmaster, John Lockwood.

A Columbia graduate, gifted in mathematics and astronomy, Lockwood was also a literary man who had served as editor of the Brooklyn Home Journal and written a well received series of articles on astronomy for the New York Tribune. A Quaker, he nevertheless volunteered for the Union Army and served with the twenty-third Brooklyn Regiment against Robert E. Lee in Pennsylvania. In 1863, Lockwood decided to merge his diverse talents in the role of educator.

"I bought the furniture and took my chances," he wrote. "In September following, I opened it with eleven boys- if my memory serves me- some eight of whom were a legacy from the Chadwick and Bunker school, 'The name Adelphi Academy,' I retained."

The school was operated under the joint proprietorship of John Lockwood and Truman J. Ellinwood, a graduate of Dr. Dio Lewis's Normal School of Physical Culture in Boston, who instituted a program of calisthenics- then unusual- in keeping with Lockwood's philosophy that education should encourage parallel development of body and mind.
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They were considered vital, along with rigorous academics, to the formation of disciplined, moral values, which was a key goal of Lockwood's program.

As Charlotte Morrill, who wrote a history of the origins of Adelphi Academy, said of Lockwood, "In his scheme of education, character was the thing placed above everything else.
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In 1870, John Lockwood left Adelphi and founded Lockwood Academy.
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John Lockwood -- Adelphi Academy's Founding Headmaster 1863-1870

As the Academy's founding Headmaster, Mr. John Lockwood, believed, the best education is that which prepares students as thinking and contributing members of their community.