{"id":2987,"date":"2022-12-09T10:00:51","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T10:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/townboyledger.westminster.org.uk\/?p=2987"},"modified":"2023-01-04T14:13:47","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T14:13:47","slug":"no-549-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/townboyledger.westminster.org.uk\/?p=2987","title":{"rendered":"No. 549"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the beginning of the term Dr Scott announced his intention of resigning the Headmastership. Everyone, I think, agrees that is a terrible blow to the School. He has held his post for 25 years and in that time has been most deservedly popular. As soon as he resigned, a fund was started to raise a testimonial. An influential Committee was formed, and a public meeting was held in College Hall on June 13<sup>th<\/sup>, with Sir Watkin Wynne in the chair for this object. The sum of \u00a3 [margin annotation: \u2018about \u00a3900 A.M.T.G.] was collected and with the a piece of magnificent silver was bought at the rest went to found a School Library, at Dr. Scott\u2019s special request. On July 31<sup>st<\/sup> a great meeting was held up School to present the plate, and a silver bowl &amp; salver present by the School. Speeches were made by Sir W. Wynn, Webb (Captain Q.S.S), Canon Bull, Ld. R. Grosvenor, and Dr. Scott, who seemed greatly affected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the beginning of the term Dr Scott announced his intention of resigning the Headmastership. Everyone, I think, agrees that is a terrible blow to the School. He has held his post for 25 years and in that time has been most deservedly popular. As soon as he resigned, a fund was started to raise&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[754,759,522],"tags":[760,158],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/townboyledger.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2987"}],"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=2987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/townboyledger.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2988,"href":"http:\/\/townboyledger.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2987\/revisions\/2988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/townboyledger.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/townboyledger.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/townboyledger.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}