After a short and sudden illness on the 29th day of August 1818. The Revd J.W. Dodd departed this life in the 57th year of his age having been usher of the school 34 years. To perpetuate whose memory the Boarders and Mrs Packharniss’ erected a monument in the east cloister of Westminster Abbey. The…
March 26th A dispute having arisen between the head Boarder and the head boy of the Town Boys (a half boarder) concerning this book, whether it should be vested in the hands of a Home Boarder or not, it was referred to the Sixth who by a large majority decided that in future it should…
The college play being again put off in consequence of the demise of the Queen, the Sixth Dinner was held on this day (Saturday) at Willis’s in St James Street. C. Smith (Half Boarder) President, O. Hamlyn (Boarder) Vice President. C.A.J. Smith Princeps Oppidanus The annual list of the Sixth stands this years as follows…
A challenge was also sent to us by the Charter House to play them at Cricket, which was very properly refused, not only on account of their being such inferior players but because it was thought beneath Westminster to accept a challenge from a private school. August 1818 G. Shepley Princeps Oppidanus
A letter having been sent by the Etonians to Westminster; in which they challenged us to a rowing match, an answer was immediately returned stating our acceptance of the same, but at the same time informing them that the day which they had proposed to row us on, would be most inconvenient, as it unfortunately…
It having been thought proper that a list of the Sixth as it stands at Christmas, should be entered annually, the following is as it stood at the Dinner in 1817: – Walker, Gillett, Shepley, Horne Senr, Marten, Wrottesley, Blackwell, Galloway, Smith, Bowen, Marton, Heberden Senr, Brickdale, Floyer, F. Slade, Heberden Junr, Shakerley, Lendon, Williamson,…
December 6th 1817 there was a Sixth Dinner as usual; at which C. Walker (Home Boarder) was President and G. Blackwell (Boarder) vice President. C.E. Walker Princeps Oppidanus
By reason of the demise of their Royal Highness the Prince Charlotte of Saxe-Coburg, there was no College Play. The Holidays we were deprived of in consequence were made up, by being added to the Christmas vacation. C.E. Walker Princeps Oppidanus
March 1st 1817 a Periodical Paper entitled the Trifler was published by some of the Town Boys whose names were not generally known. C.E. Walker Head Boy TB
In consequence of the marriage of her Royal Highness the Princess Mary, with his Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester, a week was added to the Bartholomew tide Holidays. Anno Domini 1817 C.E. Walker HB TB