« Reply #10 on: Tuesday 25 January 11 01:11 GMT (UK) »
There seems to have been more than one establishment with the same name and it might be that if he was born in Leeds, West Riding, Yorkshire then the West Riding might have his details.
The a2a manorial record site has nine SHIBDEN records and it looks like there's a registry of children's details.
Use the link below and enter "Shibden school" in the search section "all these words"
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/advanced-search.aspx?tab=1Good luck.
Aberdeen: Findlay-Shirras,McCarthy: MidLothian: Mason,Telford,Darling,Cruikshanks,Bennett,Sime, Bell: Lanarks:Crum, Brown, MacKenzie,Cameron, Glen, Millar; Ross: Urray:Mackenzie: Moray: Findlay; Marshall/Marischell: Perthshire: Brown Ferguson: Wales: McCarthy, Thomas: England: Almond, Askin, Dodson, Well(es). Harrison, Maw, McCarthy, Munford, Pye, Shearing, Smith, Smythe, Speight, Strike, Wallis/Wallace, Ward, Wells;Germany: Flamme,Ehlers, Bielstein, Germer, Mohlm, Reupke