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Head Master, Westminster School
Nicoll, John, 1683-1765
Nicoll, John, 1683-1765
GB-2014-WSA-13036 · Person · 1683-1765

NICOLL, JOHN, son of Rev. John Nicoll, Preston Capes, Northants, schoolmaster, and Mary, eldest dau. of Richard Butler, Preston Capes; b. 6 Nov 1683; adm.; KS 1700; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1704, matr. 23 Jun 1704, aged 19, Westminster Student 22 Dec 1704 – void 1722 (expiry year of grace as R. Hannington from 1721), Tutor 1713; BA 1708; MA 15 Mar 1710/1; DD 1733; ordained deacon 23 Feb 1711; succeded George Tollet (qv) as Under Master 1714, but patent not sealed until 20 Mar 1714/5; Head Master, Westminster School May 1733 (patent sealed 5 Feb 1733/4) – res Feb 1753; Rector of Hannington, Hampshire 1721-8; Rector of Meon Stoke with Soberton, Hampshire 31 Aug 1728 – Mar 1755; Prebendary of Westminster from 6 Oct 1740; Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, from 30 Dec 1751; Proctor in Convocation, for Chapter of Westminster Abbey (Chamberlayne 1748); Busby Trustee 24 Feb 1729/30; m. 2 Jan 1723/4 Alice, widow of John Lewis, London, and mother of William Lewis (adm. 1722, qv); d. 19 Sep 1765. Buried Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.
Nowell, Alexander, c.1508-1602
Nowell, Alexander, c.1508-1602
GB-2014-WSA-19638 · Person · c.1508-1602

Second son of John Nowell, Read Hall, Whalley, Lancs., and his second wife Elizabeth Kay, Rochdale, Lancs. ; b. ; ed. Middleton, Lancs., and Brasenose Coll.Oxford ; BA 1536 ; MA 1540 ; DD 1595 ; Fellow, Brasenose Coll. 1536-8 ; Head Master, Westminster School Mar 1540/1-55 ; ordained ; Prebendary of Westminster 5 Dec 1551- c.May 1554, when deprived as being a married man ; MP West Looe Sep 1553, but in Oct 1553 was declared unable to sit, as being “a Prebendary of Westminster and thereby having a voice in Convocation House” ; fled to European Continent 1555 ; studied at Strasbourg and subsequently settled with other English Protestant exiles at Frankfurt am Main, Germany ; did not return to England until after death of Queen Mary ; preached consecration sermon for Right Rev.Edmund Grindal, Bishop of London, in Dec 1559, and was appointed his chaplain ; Archdeacon of Middlesex 1 Jan 1559/60 – Nov 1560 ; Rector of Saltwood with Hythe, Kent 3 Feb 1559/60, but resigned shortly afterwards ; Prebendary of Canterbury 14 Feb 1559/60 – res by May 1564 ; Prebendary of Westminster 21 Jun 1560 – res by Jul 1564 ; Dean of St.Paul’s from 17 Nov 1560, also Prebendary of St.Paul’s from 3 Dec 1560 ; Rector of Much Hadham, Herts., 18 Dec 1562-89 ; sat on ecclesiastical commissions 1573, 1576, 1590 ; Canon of Windsor from 25 Apr 1594 ; Principal, Brasenose Coll. 6 Sep – 14 Dec 1595 ; a keen angler ; author of three catechisms ; m.1st, Joan, widow of Thomas Bowyer, citizen and grocer of London, and dau. of Robert Merry, Hatfield, Herts. ; m.2nd, Elizabeth, widow of Lawrence Ball, and of Thomas Blount, Customer of London, and dau. of William Haste, Norwich ; d. 13 Feb 1601/2, aged 93. ODNB.
Osbaldeston (or Osbolston), Lambert, d. 1659
GB-2014-WSA-019373 · Person · d. 1659

OSBALDESTON (or OSBOLSTON), LAMBERT, brother of William Osbaldeston (qv); b. ; adm. ; KS 16 Jan 1608/9; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1612, matr. 20 Oct 1615, Westminster Student; BA 1616; MA 1619 (incorp. Cambridge 1628); adm. Gray’s Inn 25 Oct 1615; a joint patent of the Head Mastership of the School was granted to John Wilson (elected to Oxford 1602, qv) and to Osbaldeston 7 Dec 1621; succeeded Wilson as Head Master 1622, his patent being dated 5 Dec 1622; ordained; Prebendary of Lincoln 18 Jul 1629 – deprived Feb 1638/9, restored 28 May 1641; Prebendary of Westminster 22 Jul 1629 – deprived Feb 1638/9, restored 28 May 1641; Rector of Wheathampstead, Herts. , 1637 – deprived Feb 1638/9, later restored; sentenced to the pillory by Court of Star Chamber 14 Feb 1638/9, for calling Archbishop Laud “the little meddling hocus-pocus”, also incurring two fines of £5000 each and the forfeiture of the Head Mastership and his ecclesiastical preferments; lived in concealment in Drury Lane until meeting of Parliament in Nov 1640; restored to preferments other than Head Mastership 1641; Prebendary of Wells from 2 Nov 1641; an annuity of £100 was granted to him by the Governors of Westminster School after the abolition of Deans and Chapters by Parliament in 1649; his living of Wheathampstead seems to have been again sequestered; spent last few years of life in retirement; Osbaldeston was a learned man and a good schoolmaster; Wood says that he was “very fortunate in breeding up many wits” (Ath. Oxon. , iii, 363), and Fuller states that in 1638 there were “above fourscore doctors in the two universities and three learned faculties all gratefully acknowledging their education under him” (Church History, ed. Brewer, vi, 158); unm. ; buried South Aisle, Westminster Abbey 7 Oct 1659. DNB.
Page, William, 1778-1819
Page, William, 1778-1819
GB-2014-WSA-01088 · Person · 1778-1819

PAGE, WILLIAM, eldest son of William Emmanuel Page (qv); b. 18 Feb 1778; adm.; KS 1791; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1795, matr. 3 Jun 1795, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1795 – void by marriage 5 Nov 1803, Tutor 1799; BA 1799; MA 1802; BD 1809; DD 1815; ordained 1802; Under Master, Westminster School 1802-14, Head Master Jan 1815 – Aug 1819; Vicar of Willen, Bucks., from 25 Feb 1806; Vicar of Steventon, Berks., 1812-7; Rector of Nunburnholme, Yorks., 1812-7; Rector of Quainton, Bucks., Dec 1817; Sub-Almoner to King from c. 1815; Busby Trustee 8 Jun 1816; m. 12 Aug 1803 Mary, dau. of Thomas Davis, Bicester, Oxfordshire, surgeon; d. 20 Sep 1819.
Passey, John, 1531-?
GB-2014-WSA-19644 · Person · 1531-?

Born Shropshire 1531 ; Christ Church, Oxford, Student 1549-57 ; BA 1551 ; MA 1555 ; Head Master, Westminster School, appointed in year from Michaelmas 1557 to Michaelmas 1558.
Rae, John Malcolm, 1931-2006
Rae, John Malcolm, 1931-2006
GB-2014-WSA-00007 · Person · 1931-2006

Son of Laurence John Rae, radiologist at the London Hospital, and Blodwen, d. of I. Williams of Wrexham; b. 20 Mar. 1931; ed. Bishop’s Stortford Coll. and Sidney Sussex Coll. Camb.; BA 1955, MA 1958; asst. master Harrow Sch. 1955-66; PhD (Lond.) 1965; HM Taunton Sch. 1966-70; succeeded as Head Master of the School Sept. 1970; Chairman Headmasters’ Conference 1977; retd. Mar. 1986; dir. Laura Ashley Foundn 1986-9, The Observer Ltd. 1986-, Portman Group 1989-; FRSA; a writer and columnist; m. 31 Dec. 1955 Daphne, d. of John Phimester Simpson of Edinburgh; died 16 Dec. 2006.
Randall, John, fl. 1564
GB-2014-WSA-19642 · Person · fl. 1564

Head Master, Westminster School, to Christmas 1564. [note John Randall, who matr. St.John’s Coll., Cambridge, sizar, Easter 1548, BA 1552-3, MA 1556, LLD 1568-9 (from Jesus Coll.), and was Fellow of Jesus Coll.Cambridge, from 1555 (adm. 28 Sep 1555) to his death ; perhaps Vicar of Peasenhall, Suffolk, in 1558; his will expresses a wish to be buried in the graveyard at Fen Stanton, Hunts., near his father, and shows that he owned property at Fen Stanton and at Over, Cambs. ; unm. ; d. 1599 (will dated 27 Feb 1598/9, proved PCC 3 Apr 1599)]
Rolle, Robert, ?-1601
GB-2014-WSA-19643 · Person · ?-1601

Fifth son of George Rolle, Stevenstone, Devon, and his first wife Ellinor, dau. of Henry Bakers, London ; b. ; ed.Winchester Coll., scholar 1549, and New Coll.Oxford ; Fellow, New Coll. 1551-60 ; BA 1555 ; MA 1560 ; BD 22 Jan 1572/3 ; DD 1585 ; when at Oxford described as being from Mark Lane, City of London ; Usher, Westminster School, in 1560 ; Head Master, Westminster School 1562 (for a letter from him, as Robert Rolles, “schoolmaster of Westminster”, to Sir William Cecil (afterwards Lord Burghley), “concerning a prebend”, dated 6 Oct 1562, see CSP Dom 1547-80, 208) ; described as William Rolle WAM 38134 ; ordained ; nominated Prebendary of Westminster 1 Jan 1562 (but the appointment may have been ineffective) (as Robert Rolles MA) ; a Latin poem of “Roberti Rolli Oxoniensis, Sacrae Theologiae Baccholaurei, Scholae Westmonasteriensis quondam moderatoris” is prefixed to Edward Grant’s Graecae Linguae Spicilegium, 1575 ; Prebendary of Wells 21 Jan 1573/4 (as Robert Rolls BD), occurs 25 Nov 1591, successor installed 16 April 1597 ; Rector of Stoke Climsland, Cornwall 7 Apr 1574 – deprived 17 Feb 1596/7 ; his will, dated 7 Jun 1601 and proved PCC 15 Jun 1601, shows that at his death he owned the advowson of the Rectory of Lockinge, Berks., “which I purchased of the late Bisshop of Oxenforde [John Underhill, at the time of the purchase Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford]”, interests in house property at Werrington, Devon, and at Crane Dock, City of London, and a farm at Stoke Climsland, Cornwall ; m. Ellen, sister of Rev.Robert Chaloner DD, Canon of Windsor, and Rector of Amersham, Bucks. ; d. Jun 1601.
Rutherford, William Gunion, 1853-1907
Rutherford, William Gunion, 1853-1907
GB-2014-WSA-00021 · Person · 1853-1907

Second son of the Rev. Robert Rutherford, Minister of the United Presbyterian Church at Mountain Cross, Peeblesshire, by Agnes, daughter of William Gunion, a Glasgow merchant; born July 17, 1853; educated at Glasgow High School, St. Andrew's Univ., and Ball. Coll. Oxon., where he graduated B.A. 1877, M.A. 1880; 1st class Classics (Mods.) 1874; 2nd class Nat. Sci. 1876; a Classical master at St. Paul's School 1876-83; elected Fellow and Praelector of Univ. Coll. Oxon. June 1883; appointed by the Governing Body as Scott's successor June 1883; ordained Sept. 23, 1883; installed Head Master up School Sept 17, 1883; resigned on account of ill health July 1901; a Greek scholar of European reputation; LL.D. (St. Andrew's) 1885; author of 'The New Phrynichus' (1881), an edition of the 'Fables of Babricus' (1883), and other works; married Jan. 3, 1884, Constance Gordon, daughter of John Thomson Renton, of Bradston Brooke, Surrey; died July 19, 1907. ODNB.
Scott, Charles Broderick, 1825-1894
Scott, Charles Broderick, 1825-1894
GB-2014-WSA-00009 · Person · 1825-1894

Son of James Smyth Scott QC (I), Dublin, Ireland, barrister, and Louisa, dau. of Hon. and Most Rev.Charles Brodrick DD, Archbishop of Cashel ; b. 18 Jan 1825 ; ed. Eton and Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 30 Sep 1842, matr.Mich.1844, scholar 1846 ; Pitt University Scholar 1847 ; Senior Classic, Senior Chancellor’s Medallist and 22nd Wrangler 1848 ; BA 1848 ; Le Bas Prize 1849 ; Member’s Prize 1850 ; MA 1851 ; BD 1860 ; DD 1867 ; Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1849-55 ; adm. Inner Temple 18 Nov 1848 ; ordained deacon 1854 (Ely), priest 1856 (Worcester) ; Head Master, Westminster School Sep 1855 – Aug 1883 ; Prebendary of St.Paul’s from 12 Feb 1873 ; Hon.Student, Christ Church, Oxford 1875 ; author, A letter to the Rt.Hon.Sir David Dundas on the position and prospects of Westminster School, 1861 (pamphlet) ; m. 19 Dec 1855 Susan Georgiana, youngest dau. of Edward Smyth, Norwich, banker (“a cold, austere, very cultivated woman”, Ethel Smyth, As Time went on, 110) ; d. 7 Dec 1894.