It was thought best on account of the very few boarders in the sixth and for several other reasons, to stop the usual practice of having a 6th dinner this year, which should have been held on the second play night. It is to be hoped however that this custom may at some future day…
After the second play Williamson sent for Hotham and told him that he understood that he had requested Mr Hudson to ask his Majesty to give us an extra week’s holydays, at the same time that his attendance at the play was requested, and as the King has accordingly desired that an extra week might…
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…