No 510
List of the Sixth after Whitsuntide 1856: A.F. Pope L. Shadwell W. Maples E.G. Berens (No homeboaders) A.F. Pope Pr. Opp.
No 509
The following were the numbers of the school before Whitsuntide 1855: Grants (R.J. Marshall) 37 Rigaud’s (R.B. James) 23 Scott’s (Lloyd) 7 & the rest homeboarders making in all 93 Town Boys. The following were the numbers before Whitsuntide 1856. Grants (Rev. J. Marshall’s) 36 Rigauds (Rev. B. James) 27 Scotts’ (F. Headlam Esq.) 7…
No 508
The Subject for the Examination at Whitsmuntide (1856) for the Sixth were exclusive of Mathematics. Tacitus Annals Book 1 Aeschylus’ Eumenides Horace Epistles Book 1 Ep.1-19 Plaey’s Hora Paulina & the texts if the Apostles as far as they are wanted for the H.P. Demosthenes Leptines (for those who were in the form from Sept.…
No 507
St David’s day falling on Monday, there was leave out from Sat at 12 to Monday night A.F. Pope Pr.Opp.
No 506
A prize was got up this half (March 56) to be played for yearly with wooden rackets. The Subscription amount to [blank] being collected indiscriminately from T.Bs and Q.S.s. A.F. Pope Pr. Opp.
No 505
The Subject for Latin Prize Hexameter this year was “Marathon.” The Sixth, Remove & Shell entered compulsorily & did the verses during the Christmas Holidays (1855-1856). The Greek Iambic verses were from Shakespeare “Troilus and Cressida” verses “Troy yet upon his basis had been down” 33 lines. The subject for Latin Prose was the prospect of…
No 504
The Silver racket was won this year by Biscoe (Queen Scholars). A.F. Pope, Pr. Opp
No 503
There was no ditch leaping this year, as the day fell on Saturday when most fellows were out. There were names for the others at eleven o’clock in all the boarding houses. A.F. Pope, Pr. Opp.
No 502
Fri. April 4th.) Rev. T. W. Weare, the Under Master, who has since Liddell left Westminster, made it his business to interfere in every possible way with everybody else’s, chose to give in imposition to a Sixth T.B., Maples, a thing which no master can do up school or down, but the Headmaster. The imposition…
No 501
An early Play was given us on Monday Mar. 31stat the request of Lord John Thyme, on the occasion of Peace being concluded at Paris. A.F. Pope. PrOpp.