The following is a list of the Sixth as it stood at Christmas 1828 Frere * Rickman Greathed Dickinson C. White * C. Frere * Jesson Sir J. H. Preston Bart Ley Williams Ludlow J. Frere * Coote Ridley Colborne Wood Osborne Gage Harrison Greensill * (18) E.H. Greathed H.B. Those marked with an asterisk…
On the 23rd of September 1828, The Rev Richard Williamson succeeded to the situation of Head Master, on the resignation of The Rev Dr Goodenough. The Rev R. Williamson was a fellow of Trinity College Cambridge, and formerly a Town-boy. William Charles Rickman Head Boarder
At the Bartholemewtide Holidays of this year (1828) the Revnd Dr Goodenough resigned his situation of Head Master which he had filled since September 1819. George Maule Head Boarder
On the 5th of August the annual match was played between the TB. and KS. Which was won by the latter with 10 wickets to go down. The following were the players Town Boys Kemble Jesson Greathed Bainbridge Marten Markham Adams Pilleau Borradaile Wood Milman King Scholars Wrottesley Mayne Day Barnes Biscoe Snell Hussey Sutherland…
On the 12th of July the second annual match was played between 11 of the old Westminster Club and 11 of the present TB and KS which was won by the former with 6 wickets to go down. The following were the players Old Westminsters Knyvett Allfrey Loftus Smale Berens Tattersall Sir Jno Paul C.…
The annual match between such T.B. as had not previously played in the great match and the Lamprobaticks was played in Tothill Fields on the 10th of July and won by the former with 8 wickets to go down. The following were the players T.B. Bainbridge Pilleau Adams Marten Sr Markham Borradaile Milman Wood Coglan…
In consequence of the Death of Dr Goodenough’s eldest daughter and the serious indisposition of Mr Preston (Under Master) a short time before the commencement of the Whitsuntide holidays they, this year, received the addition of an extra week. George Maule Head Boarder
The subject of the Deans Prize Verse this year was “Ister Fluvius” David Mure Head Boarder
It having come to Goodenough’s ears by some means or other unknown to us, that the fellows loitered about the Red House both previous to and after going a Ditch Leaping and that one or two fellows indulged rather freely in Spirituous liquors he had thought fit to forbid Ditch leaping but it is to…