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Ashburnham was originally located in Ashburnham House. The building had housed the library of the antiquarian Sir Robert Cotton, containing some of the most important Old English manuscripts in existence, many of which were destroyed or damaged in the fire of 1731, including the manuscript of Beowulf. Those that survived formed the foundation collection of the British Library.
Originally owned by the Abbey, the Public Schools Act of 1868 recommended that the building be bought by the School on the death of the occupant, the sub-dean, much to the Abbey’s consternation. The Dean and Chapter used their control over the Governing Body to attempt to prevent the school from buying the building from the Abbey, but this manoeuvre was overturned by Parliament. The sub-dean living in the house survived until 1881.
The house was finally founded the year after the sub-dean died.

Ablett, Charles Antony, only son of Thomas Robert Ablett, of Westminster, by Janet, daughter of Robert Crump, of Beverley, Yorks; b. April 30, 1881; adm. Sept. 27, 1894 (A); left July 1896; at Oundle School 1896-9; gained the Clothworkers' Scholarship at the City and Guilds Central Technical College 1900; B.Sc. (London) 1906; joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force and served in France 1916; Director of Munitions, Ireland, with the rank of Capt. R.E. 1917-8; O.B.E. June 3, 1919; chartered civil engineer; M.Inst.C.E.; chairman and managing director of the Cooper Roller Bearings Co. Ltd.; hon. vice-president of the Iron and Steel Institute 1949; m. Dec. 20, 1915, Mary Louise, elder daughter of George Bean, of Melmerby, Yorks; d. July 18, 1955.

EDWARDS, GILBERT LAXTON, only son of Davy Edwards, Colville Villas, Canterbury Road, Brixton, Surrey, commercial traveller for manufacturing chemist, and Elizabeth ----; b. 9 Nov 1870; adm. (A) 31 May 1883; left Jul 1889; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. sub-sizar 5 Oct 1889, matr. Mich. 1889; BA 1892; a medical student at St. Thomas’s Hospital; d. 26 Dec 1894.

Adams, Frank Percival, son of John Adams, of Greenwich; b. July 23, 1877; adm. Sept. 25, 1890 (A); left Dec. 1893; served in Great War I; Staff-Sergeant Field Ambulance, R.A.M.C.

PROTHERO, ARCHER GEORGE, brother of Freke Lewis Prothero (qv); b. 13 Jun 1869; adm. 27 Mar 1883 (A); left Apr 1888; RMC Sandhurst 1889; 2nd Lieut. , Welsh Regt. 29 Mar 1890; Lieut. , 13 Sep 1892; Capt. , 25 Apr 1900; Maj. , 24 Sep 1907; temp. Lieut. -Col. , 23 Mar 1915; Lieut. -Col. , 19 Aug 1919; employed with Army Pay Dept. , 12 May 1898 – 1 May 1903; served in South African War 1899-1902, and in Flanders and France in 1914-8 War; taken prisoner at battle of Loos; despatches LG 15 Jun 1916; of Malpas Court, Monmouthshire, and Abbey Dore Court, Herefs. ; JP Herefordshire 1920; m. 29 Jan 1898 Lavinia, sister of Albert James Hemmerde (qv); d. 15 Jan 1929.

Addison, Harold George Gordon, son of G. B. Addison, of West Kensington; b. July 29, 1882; adm. Sept. 27, 1895 (A); left Nov. 1898.

Aglionby, Arthur Hugh, brother of John Orfeur Aglionby (q.v.); b. Nov. 4, 1885; adm. Sept. 28, 1899 (A); left July 1905; Corpus Coll. Oxon., matric. Michaelmas 1905; 1st Cl. Lit. Hum. 1908; B.A. 1908; M.A. 1912; an assistant master at preparatory schools at St. Andrews and at Bournemouth, and subsequently at Trinity College School, Port Hope, Ontario, Canada; 2nd Lieut. Dorsetshire R.G.A., No. 1 Co., April 4, 1912; returned home from Canada in July 1914; Lieut. R.G.A. Dec. 1, 1914, Capt. (acting) Aug. 26, 1917; Major (acting) May 29, 1918; went out to the western front in Sept. 1916 and served with the 174th, 244th, and 219th Siege Batteries, being in command of the last at the time of his death; M.C. Jan. 1, 1919; d. at the second Canadian C. C. S. at Roubaix Nov. 7, 1918, of wounds received in action at Moen, near the Scheidt, on the same day; unm.

Aglionby, John Orfeur, son of the Rev. Francis Keyes Aglionby, D.D., Vicar of Newbold Pacey, Co. Warwick, by Amy, daughter of the Right Rev. Edward Henry Bickersteth, D.D., Bishop of Exeter; b. March 16, 1884; adm. Sept. 30, 1897 (A); left Nov. 1900; Queen's Coll. Oxon., matric. Michaelmas 1902; B.A. and M.A. 1910; D.D. 1924; Bishops Hostel, Auckland; ordained deacon 1911, priest 1912 (Durham); Curate of Holy Trinity, South Shields, Co. Durham, 1911-5; joined the R.A.M.C. as a private April 1915; temp. Chaplain to the Forces (4th class) July 7, 1915; served on the western front Nov. 1915-Nov. 1917; M.C. June 4, 1917; Vicar of the Venerable Bede's Church, Monkwearrnouth, Co. Durham, 1918-24; consecrated Bishop of Accra Feb. 2, 1924; resigned 1951; d. May 15, 1963.

Aglionby, Wilfrid Henry, brother of John Orfeur Aglionby (q.v.); b. April 16, 1890; adm. April 30, 1903 (A); left Easter 1908; Corpus Coll. Oxon., matric. Michaelmas 1908: B.A. 1912, M.A. 1915; Wells Theo. Coll. 1912; ordained deacon 1913, priest 1914 (London); Curate of St. Mary the Virgin of Eton, Hackney Wick, Middlesex, 1913-6; temp. Chaplain to the Forces (4th class) June 14, 1916; served in Palestine with the 16th Infantry Brigade Sept. 1916 - June 1918, and in France June-Nov. 1918; twice wounded April 10 and July 29, 1918; M.C. Feb. 18, 1918; Curate of St. Michael's, Shoreditch, 1920-3; Vicar of St. Frideswide, Poplar, 1923; Perpetual Curate of St. Saviour's, Ealing, 1936; Prebendary of St. Paul's 1948; d. July 29, 1958.