INDEX
Reading edition
Abingdon, Lord, 77
Absence, 77, 259, 261, 283
Adventurer, the, 246
Agar’s Plough, 280, 281
Ainger, the Rev. A. C., 121, 127
Ainslie, Mr. Douglas, viii, 305
Albert, Prince, 148
Alford, Lord, 88
Allen, Anthony, 136
Allestree, Provost, 14
Angelo, Miss, 64
Ante-Chapel, 5, 187
Army class, 231
Athletics, modern admiration for, 241, 242
Atholl, Duke of, 41
Austen Leigh, Mr. R. A., 191
Austen Leigh, William, 225
“Bacchus verses,” 163, 164
Badge-giving, 38-40
Balston, Dr., 189, 290-292
Barnard, Dr., 21, 22, 218, 264
Barnes Pool Bridge, 52, 205, 293
Bayley, Emilius, 275
Beagles, the, 283-285, 296
“Beaks,” 298
Bear, Johnny, 217
Benson, Mr. A. C., 166, 270
Benthall, E. C., K.S. (Keeper of the Wall, 1911), 266
Bethell, Mr., 150, 207
Betting, 323
“Bever,” 166
Bircham, Mr. F. T., 90
“Bishop,” 114
Blake-Humfrey, Mr. R. H., 261
Blandford, Lord, 41
Bligh, the Hon. Arthur, 219
Block, the, anecdotes concerning, 89, 90, 92
Blomfield, Sir Arthur, 190
Boating song, the Eton, its history, 121, 122
Bogle Smith, 219
Boland, Billy, 274
Bott, College constable, 206
Boudier, G. J., 280
Bourchier, Mr. Arthur, organises theatricals at Eton, anecdotes, 219-221
Brinsley Richards, Mr., 24, 85
Brocas, 104, 262, 284, 327
Brown, Tom, Eton tailor, 206
Brown’s, little, 312
Browning, Mr. Oscar, 291
Brownlow North, Mr., 97
“Brozier,” 62, 63
Bryant, Jacob, 264
Bryant or Brion (sock cad), 109
Bulkeley-Johnson, Mr. Vivian, viii
Bullying, anecdote of, 59
“Burry,” 62
Butler, Dr., 277
Byron, 75
“Cally,” 325
Campbell, Lord Archibald, 41
Captain of the boats, 249, 250, 261, 263
Carnegie, Mr. Andrew, his opinions concerning Greek, 232
Carrington, Lady, 293
Carter, the Rev. W. A., 4, 39
Carter’s Chamber, 200, 203
Carvings, elaborate, upon old organ case of Eton Chapel, 178
Castle (inn), 142
Champeau, French swimming instructor, 263, 264
Chapel, 5;
its architectural history, 173-175;
so-called restoration, 181, 182;
old woodwork and organ loft, 175, 176;
new stalls, 182;
present condition, 184-186
Chapel sock, 41, 42, 175
“Check nights,” 256, 257
Chitty, Right Hon. Lord Justice, 275
Christopher, the, 53, 57;
anecdotes concerning, 110, 119, 257
Christopher yard, 213
Churton, Henry Norris, declines scholarship at King’s, 226
Cloister Pump, 162
Cloisters, 159, 161
Cobbold, Felix Thornley, last Eton scholar under old statutes, 225
College buildings, account of alterations and restorations in, 156-191
College, horse-play in, 208-210
College in past days, 196-218
Collegers, their food in old days, 203-205
Collet, 219
“Colours,” 282, 283
Colours of “boats” at present day, 263
Costume, old Eton, 34-36
Coventry, Lord, 258
Cradock, Zachary, 15
Craven, Lord, 40
Creasy (the historian), 125
Creasy, 269
Culliford, James (chief butler), 205;
his son, 206
Cumberland, Duke of, 16, 18
Curfew tower, vulgarisation of, 193, 194
Curraghmore, 89
Curzon, Lord, 127, 249
Cust, family of, 182
Dalmeny, Lord, 170
Dalton, the Rev. T., favourable to theatricals, 219, 220
Daniel (captain of Harrow eleven), 276
“Deadman’s Hole,” 265
Deeson, architect and “restorer” of Chapel, 182, 183
De Foix, 12
De Quincey, 227
Douro, Lord, 76, 137
Drury’s, 247
Duleep Singh, the Maharajah, 323
Dupuis, the Rev. G., a Vice-Provost, 28, 29, 150
Durnford, the Rev. F. E. (Judy), 286
Durnford, Richard, first Eton scholar to go to King’s under new statutes, 226
Durnford, Mr. Walter, 309
East window, 185
Educational system at Eton, reflections upon, 227-242
Election Chamber, 159, 160, 223
Election Saturday, 84, 202, 222-224, 257, 258
Elizabeth, Queen, relics of her visit to Eton, 8, 167, 319
Elliot, Mr. Willie, 221
“Estaminet,” the, 116
Eton and Harrow match, 275-279;
incident after, 278, 279
Eton Mission, 296
Evans, Miss, 64
Evans, Mr. William, 41
Fagging, 59, 309-311
Fight, a fatal, 96, 97
Fighting, anecdotes concerning, 92-98
Finlay, 269
Finmore (Dr. Hawtrey’s servant), 91
“Fire-place,” 216, 217
Fives, 244;
first regular court, 245, 281, 282
Floods, 105
Flowers, Jimmy, 104
Font, new, 186;
old, 187
Football, 244, 245
Foote, his remark at the Castle Inn, 142
Fourth of June, 222
Fox, Charles James, 22, 169
Frampton Court, viii, 175
Frescoes in Chapel, 179, 180, 181
“Furking,” 267
Games popular in 1770, 240
George the Third, 30-33
Giles, 320, 321
Gilmer, 219
Gladstone, 57, 127, 169, 170, 233, 247, 248;
as an Eton boy at Montem, 137
Godolphin, Provost, 89, 173, 176
Goodall, Dr., 26-29, 68, 72, 95, 187
Goodford, Dr., 85, 86, 91, 117, 237, 256, 292
Gown, changes concerning, 210, 211, 215
Gray, 242
Green, “Polly,” 284
Grieve, an Eton boy burnt to death, 45
Groves, Barney, 104
Hale, the Rev. E., 293
Hall, Jack, 103
Hall, the College, 15, 140;
remodelling of western end, architectural history, 162;
drastic restoration in 1858, 163;
present condition, 165
Harcourt, the Rt. Hon. Lewis, vii, 127, 128, 201
Harding, 80, 273
Harris, Mr., 234
Harrow, 240
Hatecliffe, William, first Eton scholar (1443), 225
Hatton, Mrs., her “sock shop,” 247
Haverley, Jack, 254
Hawtrey, Dr., 40, 41, 58, 65, 66, 81, 84, 87, 95, 111, 118, 143, 149, 150, 160, 255, 267, 274, 288-290;
his monument in Chapel, 189
Hawtrey brothers, 219
Hawtrey, Mr. John, 51
Hawtrey, Mr. Stephen, 233
Heath, Dr., 25
Henley, 240, 263
Henry VI., 3, 5, 212, 225, 226
Henry VIII., 6, 7
Hexter, Major, 233
Hill, Mr., saves old Eton organ case, 177
Hoaxes, 100, 317;
an elaborate modern one, 317-320
Hockey, 245, 246
Hodgson, Provost, 150, 196, 197, 203;
his reforms in College, 215
Hoisting, 326, 327
Hoop, its former popularity at Eton, 242, 243
Hoppie (sock cad), 110
Hornby, Dr., 11, 65, 87, 92, 105, 169, 279, 288-290, 291, 294, 307
Illustrated London News, 140, 211 (note)
Ingalton Drake’s, 320, 325
James, the Rev. C. C., 292
Jesse, Mr. J. H., 88, 89
Jobey Joel, 110, 219
Johnson, William (afterwards William Cory), anecdotes of, 119-123
Joynes, the Rev. J. L., 87, 287, 288
Joynes, young Mr., 291
Keate, Dr., 35, 50, 57;
anecdotes of, 68-82, 102, 116, 214, 219, 231, 252, 255, 281, 282, 294
Keate’s Lane, 281, 282
Kenyon, Lord, 219
King’s, 132, 134;
arms of, on old Eton organ case, 178, 223;
dissolution of ancient bond with Eton, 225, 226
Kintore, Lord, 97
Ladas, 248
Lanesborough, Lord, 284
Langford, Lord, 39
Layton’s, 59
Leaving Books, 64, 65;
Money, 65, 66
Lectern, ancient, 187
Leveson-Gower, Lord Ronald, 41
Levett, Berkeley, 219
Levi (sock cad), 109
Lewis, Dr., 90
Lock-up, 93, 305, 327
Lock-up Parade, 327
Lomax, 137
Long Chamber, 158, 172, 197;
description of, 200-202;
remodelling of, 221-222
Long Glass, 66, 67
Long-morning, 60
Lord’s, 276, 279, 326
Lord’s (old), 274
Lorne, Lord, 41
Lotteries, 322, 323
“Lower College” (obsolete form of football), 267
Lower School, 8, 170-172
Lubbock, Mr. Alfred, 277
Lubbock, Mr. Robin, 278
Lubbock family, 278
Lucas, Mr. Reginald, 220, 319 (note)
Lupton’s Chapel, 13, 185
Luxmoore, Mr. H. E., 185
Lyte, Sir Henry Maxwell, 3, 180
Lyttelton, the Hon. and Rev E. (Headmaster), 295-297
Lyttelton family, 278
Lytton, Phil, 204
M’Niven minor, 276
Malim, William, 6, 7, 134
Map-making, 49
Marcon, W., 269
Memorial Hall, 191, 192, 247, 248
Miller, Jem, 272
“Missis” (sock seller), 110
Mitchell, Mr. R. A. H., 221, 276
Monckton, George (afterwards Lord Galway), 41
Montem, 33;
description of and anecdotes, 129-156;
waving the flag at, 144, 149;
costumes worn at, 145, 146;
last celebration, 148, 149;
abolition, 150;
relics of, 152, 156
Montem poet, 152-156;
odes, 153
Mordaunt, H. J., 269
Moultrie, John, 3, 40, 41
Mowbray Morris, the late Mr., 2
Mozley, Mr. H. W., 223
Muttlebury, S. D., 263
Naylor’s, Miss, 125, 127
Newcastle scholar, 223, 240
Nicknames, 60-62
Noblemen, 38, 41
Noblemen’s stalls (torn down at restoration of Chapel), 175, 182
Officers’ Training Corps, 293
Okes, Dr., 197
Oppidan Dinner, 259-261
“Oppidan scholars,” 231
“Oppidans’ Museum,” 115
“Orders,” 313, 314
Organ case, description of old, 176;
its history after being discarded by Eton authorities, 177, 178
Organ screen, modern, 184
Pass, Charley (sock cad), 108
Pepys, 15, 164, 172
Phillott, 269
Pinnacles, rebuilding of old, 189, 190
Plumtre, Mr., 150, 173
Poaching, 101
Pop, 77, 119, 247-249, 297, 328
Porson, 213, 216
“Poser’s child,” quaint usage, 223
“Posers,” 222, 223
Powell, Jem, 102, 103
Powell, well-known character at the Wall, 268
Poyntz, Stephen, captain of Montem in 1706, lines by, 136
Praepostors, 6, 9, 306, 307
“Private Tutors,” 41;
nickname for “cads,” 102
Private Tutors, 105
Prose, 46
Protestant Etonian martyrs, 7, 8
Provost’s Lodge, 160
Punch, 149
Rackets, 281
Rattee, contractor for “restoration” of Chapel, 183
“Ripping,” quaint usage, 224
Roberts, Lord, 170
Rosebery, Lord, vii, 127, 171, 248, 258
Rouse, Provost, 13
Rowing, notes upon history of, at Eton, 252-263
Rowland’s (sock shop), 205
Rugeley, chapel at, 178
Rushes, the, 122, 256
St. Aldwyn, Lord, 258
St. Andrew’s Day, 38, 265, 268, 269
St. Thomas, Dominican Monastery of, 177
Salt Hill, 130 et seq.;
present condition of, 156
Salvin, architect, 194
“Saps,” 239
Savernake, Lord, 83
Savile, Sir Henry, 9, 10
School Magazines, 25, 26, 41
School Pulling, 326
Scrulton, F. F. V. captain of the boats, 1911, 263
“Scug,” 62
Second Upper Club, 280
Selwyn, George Augustus, 264
Selwyn, Thomas, diary of, 253
Seymour, Berkeley, 136
Sharpe, S. S., 263
Sheep’s Bridge, 273
Shelley, 94, 95, 123, 169
Sheridan, Mrs., viii
Shirking, 52, 53
Shore, Jane, 5
Simmonds, Mr. Robert, viii
Sir Galahad, picture in Chapel, 185
Sixpenny, 97, 280
Sixpenny Corner, 97
Slang, 62
Smoking, 17, 305
“Smut,” 117
Snape, Mrs., 63
“Snip,” 322
Sock, 62
Sock cads, 106-110
Solomon, 321, 322
Spankie (the celebrated sock cad), 106-109
Spode, Mr. Josiah, 177
Sporting Magazine, account of Etonian in 1799, 99-100
Spottiswoode’s, 320
Stafford, Lord, 39
Stage coachmen, 113
Statutes, their violation about 1834, 198-200
Statutes, new, 225, 226
Stephen, J. K., 166, 270
“Stiggins” (see Rev. C. C. James), 292
Stockhore, Herbert, the Montem poet, account of, 153-156
Stone, Mr. Christopher, 62
Stone, the Rev. E. D., 61, 244
Stratford de Redcliffe, Lord, 94, 275
Street, Mr. G. E., architect, 184
Strugnal, 271
Studd family, 278
Sunday questions, 237
Surly, 222, 256, 257
Sutherland, Duke of, 39
Swimming, 263, 264
Swishing, 9, 82-88
Tap, 66, 326-328
Tapestry formerly in College Hall, 165
Tarver, Mr. F., 219
Teape, A. S., 277
Theatricals at Eton, 218-221
Thompson, Theophilus, 136
Threepenny day, 206, 207
Timbralls, the, 270
Townshend, Charles Fox, 77, 78, 247
Training Corps, Officers’, 26, 293, 294
Trials, 24, 47, 236, 241
Trotman (sock cad), 109
Trotman’s gardens, 247, 282
Tuck, a Colleger, 224
“Tug,” supposed origin of term, 210
Tutorial system, 229, 230
Tutors, private, 41
Udall, Nicholas, 7
Under the Clock, dramatic sketch given by Mr. Bourchier when at Eton, 221
Upper Club, 273, 276, 281
Upper School, 168
“Upper Sixpenny,” 280
“Ushers,” 298
Vaughan, Mr. E. L., 156
Verses, Latin, 49, 238, 239
Victoria, Queen, 33, 150, 324
Volunteers, 293
Wall game, notes upon, 265-270
Walpole, Horace, 111, 112, 242;
Sir Robert, 16, 19;
Lord Walpole of Walterton, 16;
Lord Walpole, 254
Warre, Dr. (Provost), 253 (note), 294, 295
“Water boils,” “Make tea,” 273
Waterford, Lord, 88, 89
Watts, 185
Waynflete, William of, 4, 190
Webber, College servant, 205
Webber’s, Harry, 312
Wellesley, the Marquess, 126, 127, 169, 227;
his memorials in old and new chapels, 187, 188
Wellington, the great Duke of, 59, 94, 105, 125, 169, 211;
as a boy at Montem in 1781, 136, 137
West, Rt. Hon. Sir Algernon, a survivor of the last Montem, viii;
his experiences, 144
Westminster, 258;
boat races with Eton, 262, 263;
cricket matches, 274
White (Dr. Hornby’s servant), 92
White Hart (inn), 259
Wilder, the Rev. John, 162, 165, 181, 186
Williams’, 325
Winchilsea, Lord, 271, 272
Winchester, 5, 181, 240, 275, 277, 279, 280
Windham, William, 26
Windmill (inn), Botham’s, 142, 156
Windsor Fair, 53-55
Windsor races, 56
Woodyer, Mr. (architect), 189, 191
Wotton, Sir Henry, 10-13
Wren, Sir Christopher, 175, 176
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