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Brown bronze bust on pedestal with small gold plaque, about half life-size; Ghandi wears loose robes.

One copy annotated on reverse by R.S. Chalk, as follows:
'At close of School, following ‘Ire licet’, a School Monitor (in charge of the Door, ‘ostium’) and a Second Election KS capping the Masters. (The junior Master descending amid the IV Form was taken in my day to be W.G. Etheridge, but at this date I think it more likely A.H. Forbes).
As a Second Election from Play 1921 to Election 1922 I regularly performed my duty as Monos- tapping on the doors of VII and VI Form Rooms with the corner of my college-cap and announcing “Instat Quinta!” or (when Early School in Summer) “Instat Quarta!” –and on Saturdays or Plays “Instat Sesquiduodecima!” (This was an anachronism, this no longer being the correct hour).
Only once or twice (on O.T.C Field Days) did it fall to me to deputise for a School Monitor and take charge of the Door and take my place on the Monos Stone.'

Pastel portrait of Mother Grant III displayed in a painted glass oval; the sitter is turned to the right, but is portrayed full face; she wears a white dress.

Miniature on bone or ivory; half-length portrait of a young woman, turned to the right; she wears a white dress and a red wrap; her hair is brown and curly. Inscription on back by Lawrence Tanner: 'This is a member of the Grant family of Westminster School ? 1967'

Miniature of Mrs. Charlotte Du Brieux

Kept "Mother du Brieux's" Boarding House at No1. Dean's Yard. Formerly Mrs (Driffield) but subsequently married the Chevalier du Brieux ...

Mahogany case with rocaille gilt brass mounts, painted dial signed within rocaille mask spandrels, subsidiary dials to the lower spandrels - Musica/Silence and Minuet/Dance/Hornpipe/Gavot, the arch with a painted automaton vignette of a harbour scene, eight day movement with a cylinder action carillon of ten bells, twin pull chord repeats.

A George III silver mustard pot on three feet, embossed with a border of flowers on foliate and paw feet, blue glass liner. Maker's mark obscured.

One copy annotated on reverse as follows, by R.S. Chalk:
'1918-1924
By the 1920’s the multiplication of names of O.WW up School was beginning to pose a real problem, as space was running short. They cost (I believe) only 5/- Each!
Towards the end of my time I heard Costley-White explaining to some distinguished visitors that in future permission to have names painted up School was to be confined to “Westminster Families”, i.e. families that had at least three members at the School at some date. I could claim a younger brother and, later, three cousins – but in any case all was decided by the Blitz (which obliterated hundreds of names, including 17 Phillimores and 16 Waterfields).'