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The earliest years of Rigaud’s are unclear, but we know it began as an independent boarding house in the late 18th century, changing its name several times until it became Rigaud’s, after the Reverend Stephen Rigaud, a master at Westminster from 1846-1850, who later became Bishop of Antigua.

In 1821, when the house was named ‘Mother Best’s’, a boarder died from over-eating after a ‘broshier’, or an attempt to exhaust the supply of food in protest at its quality.

Lambe, Philip Agnew, brother of John Lawrence Penrose Lambe (q.v.); b. Feb. 23, 1897; adm. Sept. 22, 1910 (R); left Dec. 1913; served in Great War I; Sub-Lieut. R. N. V. R. May 3, 1916; invalided; Trinity Hall, Camb., B.A. 1932; M.A. 1947; an artist; Gold Medallist, Paris Salon; served in the Navy in both Great Wars; painted the portrait of Walter Hamilton, Head Master, 1957; m. 1955, Zoe Violetta Lane, of New Zealand; d. 1968.

Murray, Colin Andrew, son of Colin Hay Murray FRIBA, of Eastbourne, Sussex, and Joan Pamela, d. of Stanley Tooth, engineer, of Buxted, Sussex; b. 7 Jan. 1926; adm. Sept. 1939 (R); left July 1944; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1944, BA 1947, MA 1951; Roy. Greenwich Observatory 1950-85, SPSO 1965-85; Roy. Astronomical Soc., Fellow 1952, Council 1965-8 and 1974-7, Vice-Pres. 1975-7; gave 1988 Halley lecture on "The Distances to the Stars"; m. 27 Feb. 1954 Frances Mary, d. of Rev. George Stephen Nason, Vicar of Greenwich and Dean of Gibraltar; d. 8 Nov. 2012.

Abrahams, Austen Neville, son of Neville A. Abrahams, of Bayswater; b. Jan. 30, 1904; adm. Jan, 17, 1918 (R); left Dec. 1919; called to the bar at Grays Inn June 12, 1929; equity draftsman and conveyancer; served in Israeli Army 1948-50; warden, Montefiore College, Ramsgate, 1956-62; warden, Hillel House, Birmingham, since 1962; m. Viola Margaret, daughter of David Aaron, actuary; d. 1981.

Albert, David Fenwick, brother of Aubrey John Fenwick (qv); b. 20 June 1915; adm. Sept. 1928 (R); left Oct. 1931; Univ. Coll. Lond., BSc; FRGS; RNVR (Sub-Lieut. 1942); m. 20 June 1940 Muriel Rita, d. of G. Etheridge of St Leonard's-on-Sea; d. 19 Mar. 1985.

Alers-Hankey, Richard Lyons, son of Sydney George Alers-Hankey of Zara, Dalmatia, and Theodosia Abdy; b. 7 Oct. 1906; adm. Sept. 1920 (R); left Apr. 1921; Trin. Hall Camb., matric. 1925, BA 1928, LLB 1929, MA 1932; called to the Bar (Middle Temple) Jan. 1929; Treasury Solicitor's Office 1939; Prin. Asst Solicitor Min. of Transport and Civi Aviation 1953-63; dep. Treas. Solicitor 1964-9; CB Jan. 1957; m. 30 July 1937 Margaret Lavender Reyne, née Barr; d. 14 Nov. 1969.

Aitken, Hon. Peter Rudyard, brother of Sir John William Maxwell Aitken (qv); b. 22 Mar. 1913; adm. Sept. 1925 (R); left Apr. 1930; Roy. Fusiliers 1940-2, Pioneer Corps 1942, Roy. Fusiliers Aug. 1942-5 (Capt.); m. 1st 25 Jan. 1934 Janet, d. of Murray Macneill, Prof. of Mathematics Dalhousie Univ., Halifax, NS; 2nd 1943 Marie Patricia, d. of Michael Maguire, of Melbourne, Australia; d. 3 Aug. 1947.

Alport, Claude Mashiter, younger son of Laurence Alport, of Kensington, by Mary Ann Frances, daughter of Thomas Augustus Sackville Manning; b. Oct. 29, 1888; adm. Jan. 14, 1904 (R); left Easter 1906; went out to China; Cipher Officer H. B. M. Legations, Pekin and Hankow 1934; Temp. Sec. H. B. M. Embassy, Ankara, 1940; M.B.E. Jan. 1, 1941; 2nd Lieut. 8th Batt. Black Watch Feb. 18, 1916, Lieut. Sept. 18, 1917, Capt. May 24, 1918, attached R.A.F.; m. June 26, 1918, Violet, only daughter of Leslie Charles Wintle, of Eastbourne, Sussex; d. Dec. 18, 1945

Allen, Sir William Kenneth Gwynne, son of Harold Gwynne Allen (qv); b. 23 May. 1907; adm. Sept. 1921 (R); left Apr. 1925; Univ. of Neuchatel, Switzerland; engineering pupil Harland & Wolff Ltd, Glasgow and Belfast; subsequently W. H. Allen Sons & Co., Bedford, dir. 1937-70, man. dir. 1946-70, chairman 1955-70; chairman Amalg. Power Engineering 1968-70; FIMarE, MRINA; pres. Engineering Employers' Fedn 1962-4; Freeman City of London, Liveryman Worshipful Company of Shipwrights; Beds CC 1945-55, High Sheriff 1958-9; Kt 1961; DL (Beds) 1978; m. 1 July 1931 Eleanor Mary, d. of Henry Eeles, shipbuilder, of Newcastle-on-Tyne; d. 4 Apr. 2000.

Allen, Harold Norman Gwynne, brother of Sir William Kenneth Gwynne Allen (qv); b. 30 Apr. 1912; adm. Sept. 1925 (R); left Apr. 1930; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1930, BA 1933, MA 1937; MIMechE 1951, MICE 1962, FEng. 1979; FICE, FIMechE, FRINA, FIMarE, FIProdE; eng. training John Samuel White & Co, Cowes, John Brown Ltd, Clydebank, and Merchant Navy, 1933-7; progressive staff appts W. H. Allen Sons & Co, chairman 1970-7; Governor Coll. of Aeronautics, Cranfield 1955-69; Charter pro-Chancellor, Cranfield Inst. of Technology 1969- 75; CBE 1965; hon. DSc Bath 1967, Cranfield 1977; DL (Beds) 1978; member Magic Circle; m. 29 Jan. 1938 Marjorie Ellen, d. of William Henry Brown of Cowes, I. of W.; d. 6 Dec. 1995.