{"id":325,"date":"2016-05-13T00:00:54","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T00:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/townboyledger.westminster.org.uk\/?p=325"},"modified":"2017-10-02T14:44:48","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T14:44:48","slug":"no-77","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/townboyledger.westminster.org.uk\/?p=325","title":{"rendered":"No 77"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Right Honourable <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charles_Williams-Wynn_(1775%E2%80%931850)\" target=\"_blank\">Charles William Wynne<\/a> having generously given a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/East_India_Company#Writers\" target=\"_blank\">writership<\/a> to be contended for by any Boy in the Sixth Form at Westminster, who chose to enter into competition, on Wednesday February 7th and Thursday the 8th.\u00a0 Six Candidates, Davis, Escombe, Bailey and Findlater T.B. but Home Boarders and Froude and Allen K.S. were examined in the Library by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joseph_Batten\" target=\"_blank\">Dr Batten<\/a> President of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/East_India_Company_College\" target=\"_blank\">Haylebury College <\/a>and Messrs Tyler and Cramer of Oxford \u2013 the subjects of Examination were the Greek and Latin Classics, Geography and Mathematics.\u00a0 The Examination lasted from \u00bd past 8 till 5 o\u2019clock on Wednesday and being again resumed at 8 on Thursday having terminated about one o\u2019clock on that day in favour of Escombe \u2013 Wednesday being an early Play every Boy who chose was permitted to be present at the Examination, and the Sixth Form only on Thursday \u2013<\/p>\n<p>Dr Goodenough, Mr Preston together with Mr Wynne, some of the Ushers, and their Friends were present \u2013 In a very eloquent speech at the close of the Examination the principal Elector declared both himself and his co-adjutors to be highly pleased with the performance of several candidates.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">G. Chetwynd<br \/>\nHead Boarder<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Right Honourable Charles William Wynne having generously given a writership to be contended for by any Boy in the Sixth Form at Westminster, who chose to enter into competition, on Wednesday February 7th and Thursday the 8th.\u00a0 Six Candidates, Davis, Escombe, Bailey and Findlater T.B. but Home Boarders and Froude and Allen K.S. were&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[129,16,128],"tags":[131,138,330,135,136,134,137,103,35,132],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/townboyledger.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325"}],"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=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/townboyledger.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326,"href":"http:\/\/townboyledger.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions\/326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/townboyledger.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/townboyledger.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/townboyledger.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}