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Byron, William, 5th Baron Byron, 1722-1798
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Byron, William, 5th Baron Byron, 1722-1798
A Classroom in Ashburnham House
One copy annotated on reverse by R.S. Chalk, as follows:
'Class Rooms up Ashburnham were of course not originally designed for the purpose. As such they would have given a present-day Minister of Education a heart-attack, and certainly have been deemed unworthy of any Comprehensive or even County Primary School. However, we had no complaints - except about that ultra-gloomy room, on the ground floor (facing out on to Ashburnham Green) where the ferocious and austere E.L. Fox ruled the Upper Fifth with his rod of iron.
As far as I remember, the Class Room depicted was not a (Upper and Lower School, independent of Forms) Form Room, but was used for Sets, till these were discontinued after the arrival of Costley White.
Here in 1918-19 I learnt French under the acidulous W.N. Just and Maths under the doddering Rev. H. Hancock. (Both were ageing men, recalled as temporary members of the Staff to hold the fort while younger Masters were absent on War Service).'
A collection of dialogues, English and Hindoostanee
Gilchrist, John Borthwick, 1759-1841
A Collection of English Religious Treatises
MS on Vellum. Busby's own Catalogue mark: 10.top.17.
Rolle, Richard, ca. 1300-1349
A Collection of Pamphlets with a Table of Contents on the Preliminary fly leaves in an C18th hand
L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704
A collection of poems by William Cowper
Lady Hesketh's Book, containing transcripts of Cowper's poems by John Johnson and Lady Hesketh, bound in morocco-backed calf gilt
Johnson, John, 1769-1833
A Collection of Poems on Various Subjects
Blackmore, Richard, Sir, d. 1729
A Collection of poems; The Temple of Death by the Marquis of Normandy etc
Poetical Miscellany
A Collection of Psalms and Hymns extracted from various authors
Madan, Martin, 1726-1790
Wesley, Charles, 1707-1788