No 196
This year a rowing match took place at Datchett, between Westminster and Eton, in which Westminster won, beating the Etonians easily, for full particularly of this match see the Water Ledger No. _ Somerton H.B.
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No 194
The T.B. having made up their crew with the Home boarders determined on hiring a boat of Serle for the season which was accordingly done, the “Haidee” formerly the “Queen Bess” of Trinity Cambridge was hired for £20-0-0 Somerton H.B.
No 193
At 3 meetings of the sixth held on the 6th, 7th and 8th days of March 1837 the following paper was agreed to and signed by the Heads of the T.B. and H.B. boats. It being absolutely necessary, in consequence of the low state of the school to resort to this method of keeping up…
No 188*
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.
No 188
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…
No 187*
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…
No 186
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;…
No 180
The names at the fields and in Dean’s Yard at ½ past seven at the former place and ¼ past eight in the latter which Williamson had abolished last year were this year reinstituted on account of the dinner at Putney on the occasion of the intended race (mentioned (168) and given at length in…
No 168
A Rowing Match having been agreed upon between Preston and Astley (TB) versus Savile and Drew (KS), Roberts through jealousy, on account of their not using his boats (which are considerably too heavy to race in) informed Williamson of it, who instantly stopped it, and set the parties concerned in it an Impositions of such…
No 159*
Another sailing match took place, subsequently to those already mentioned – the following were the boats engaged in the contest. General Hurst Osborn Colonel Preston Astley Commodore Milman Lowther Sen. Captain Bewicke Somerton Admiral Warren Vialls The Boats after a beautifully contested race (the two first boats, having been side by side the whole way…