One of the Seniors, Hotham, having written to Mr Hudson, a gentleman attached to the King’s household and formerly at Westminster, to be, that if he had an opportunity, he would request the King to attend the representation of the Adelphi, he accordingly made the desired application to his Majesty who in the most gracious…
Dr Williamson having declared that there was a prize left by Burton Esq. for any deserving Town Boy, gave as the examination for those who chose to compete for it, the whole of the Iliad and the Aneid, Horace’s Odes and the Hecuba. This prize has not been given by Dr Williamson before vide No…
The list of the sixth at Xmas 1836 was a follows * Mackenzie * Lee * Turner Astley Wingfield Ld Somerton Dudman Forester * Merewether Vialls * Jermyn Bentinck Those marked * are Home Boarders It should have been stated before that after the last Whitsuntide Holydays L. Woolcombe Esq was appointed Usher in the…
August 1836 It was resolved that Astley Vialls Mackenzie and Somerton should be sent to Eton with a challenge to row at Putney, which however was declined, as the Etonians had broken up for the Holydays it was intended that the T.B. alone should row in this match. Added by Somerton H.B.
Having often heard the following admitted as rules by former heads, and other fellows; but not finding them written in this book, I think it right to place them here. First – “That when a head of the T.B. has, (from being placed high in the school) not been here long enough to know the…
June 1836 A race for a trifling sweepstake was got up among the T.B. it was run over Battersea fields the distance was about a mile with 7 leaps in it, the following fellows started Astley Forester Merewether Maule Wingfield Dudman Whittaker Bentinck Astley won. Whittaker being second and Merewether third. A race was also…
In consequence of the Queen coming to Westminster Abbey, I wrote to Lord Howe requesting him to ask for an extra weeks Holidays which he very kindly did. B.G. Astley August 1836
A match was played in Tothill Fields on Thursday August 9th 1836 between the present Westminsters and the Old Westminsters, the present Westminster won with wickets to go down. Old Westminsters Honble Col. Lowther Hodgson C. Page Page Mayne Woolcombe Bailey *Ld Paget Present Westminsters Howard Vialls Balston Fielde Merewether Whittaker Ld. Somerton Coxe Lowther…
This season a challenge was sent from Eton offering to race at Staines, as usual refusing to come nearer to our water. Thursday the __ of May was the day appointed and at 6 o’clock the boats took their station at Staines Bridge. After one false start they got away, the Westminsters taking the lead;…
The Cricket Match between the K.S. and the T.B. was this year won by the latter by 13 runs the following are the names of the players T.B. Vialls Senr Merewether Whittaker Ld Somerton Curteis [Pront] Senr Ld Paget Bentinck Smith Jun. Onslow Lee K.S. Howard Balston Fielde Smith Senr Harrison Cox Richards Junr Lowther…