{"id":2777,"date":"2022-05-16T10:00:36","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T10:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/townboyledger.westminster.org.uk\/?p=2777"},"modified":"2022-05-10T13:48:10","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T13:48:10","slug":"no-457-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/townboyledger.westminster.org.uk\/?p=2777","title":{"rendered":"No. 457"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the Sports the prizes were given away by Mrs Scott. The Dr gave his customary address, and the proceedings closed with the usual enthusiastic cheering. \u2013 After the conclusion of the distribution of Prizes, a meeting of old Westminsters, in conjunction with this year\u2019s foot-ball eleven, was held in the bat-room.\u00a0 C.W. Stephenson O.W. presided. The meeting was held in behalf of the furtherance of an O.W. Foot-Ball club, which is projected. This was decided<\/p>\n<p><sup>x<\/sup>that the club should be formed and directed by a committee of which the original members were \u2013<\/p>\n<p>P.G.L. Webb Secretary\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 H.P. Williams Treasurer<\/p>\n<p>A.M. Hemsley (Oxford)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 H.C. Benbow (Cambridge)<\/p>\n<p>W.N. Tayloe (London)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 H.N. Robson (Present Captain Westminster School)<\/p>\n<p>N.C. Bailey (London)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">J. Barwick Hodge<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">For W.L. Benbow Prin Opp.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><sup>x<\/sup>As W.L. Benbow was prevented by circumstances beyond his control from writing up the ledger I have done so for him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">John Barwick Hodge<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Prin. Opp. 1882<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><sup>x<\/sup>The circumstances were no other than the unaccountable laziness of W.L. Benbow his J.B. Hodge excuses in so friendly a manner.<\/p>\n<p><sup>x<\/sup>The fellow who wrote this libel was afraid ashamed or both to sign his name to it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">J.B. Hodge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the Sports the prizes were given away by Mrs Scott. The Dr gave his customary address, and the proceedings closed with the usual enthusiastic cheering. \u2013 After the conclusion of the distribution of Prizes, a meeting of old Westminsters, in conjunction with this year\u2019s foot-ball eleven, was held in the bat-room.\u00a0 C.W. Stephenson O.W.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[727,732,522,735],"tags":[6,739,155],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/townboyledger.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2777"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/townboyledger.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/townboyledger.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/townboyledger.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/townboyledger.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/townboyledger.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2778,"href":"http:\/\/townboyledger.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2777\/revisions\/2778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/townboyledger.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/townboyledger.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/townboyledger.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}