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Worthington, Arthur Little, 1917-1983

  • GB-2014-WSA-18630
  • Person
  • 1917-1983

Worthington, Arthur Little, son of Bond Valentine Thomas Worthington (qv); b. 11 Nov. 1917; adm. Sept. 1930 (R); left Mar. 1936; Harvard Univ.; Field Artillery US Army in WW2 (Lieut.); manager Côte D'Azur-Monaco region First Nat. City Bank of New York; Chevalier Ordre de la Couronne (Belgium); m. 17 May 1941 Burdeene, d. of Paul Hill Irvin of Forest Hills NY; d. 8 Aug. 1983.

Worthington, Harold, 1890-1978

  • GB-2014-WSA-18634
  • Person
  • 1890-1978

Worthington, Harold, brother of Bond Valentine Thomas Worthington (q.v.); b. Nov. 25, 1890; adm. Sept. 24, 1903 (H); left July 1906; Yale Univ. 1909; A.B.; an electrical engineer 1915-7; served with the first U.S. Div. of Field Artillery as Lieut. in France in Great War I; director of New York Travel Courses since 1924; m. Feb. 19, 1926, Sada Elizabeth, daughter of Peter Van Schuyver Hoyt, of New York; d. 8 Mar. 1978.

Summerhays, Reginald Sherriff, 1881-1976

  • GB-2014-WSA-16482
  • Person
  • 1881-?

Summerhays, Reginald Sherriff, elder son of Thomas Charles Summerhays, of Wimbledon, solicitor, by Marian Edith, eldest daughter of Edwin Sherriff, of Wimbledon; b. April 5, 1881; adm. Jan. 16, 1896 (H); left April 1899; adm. a solicitor Jan. 1905, practices in London; served in Great War I; temp. 2nd Lieut. A.S.C. May 25, 1917; Civilian Remount Purchas­ing Officer, Expeditionary Force; afterwards Legal Adviser to the Controller of Aircraft Contracts, Ministry of Munitions; joint author of Summerhays and Toogood's Precedents of Bills of Costs, 9th and 10th editions; author of Summerhays' Encyclopædia for Horsemen, The Observor's Book of Horses and Ponies, and many other authoritative works and articles on horses and horsemanship; judge, breeder and exhibitor of horses; m. 1st July 25, 1906, Annie May, elder daughter of Arthur Owen, of Eastbourne, Sussex; 2nd Sept. 18, 1944, Winifred Edna, elder daughter of Walter Varley, of Bessacarr, Yorks; d. 25 Oct. 1976.

Wells, William Thomas, 1915-?

  • GB-2014-WSA-17912
  • Person
  • 1915-?

Wells, William Thomas, son of William Thomas Wells, professional boxer known as "Bombar­dier" Billy Wells and Ellen Kilroy; b. 9 Feb. 1915; adm. Jan. 1929 (R); left Oct. 1930.

Grant's

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  • Corporate body
  • 1749-

Grant's was opened as an independent boarding house by Mrs Margaret Grant, or Mother Grant I, in 1749, when keeping boarders was one of the few respectable occupations for middle-class women. The house continued under the Grants’ management until Mrs Dixon, the last of the family, sold the building to the then housemaster, Charles Alfred Jones in 1868. As well as income from the sale of the house, Mrs Dixon also had a share of the profits of Dixon's antibilious pills, the world-famous 'pill to cure all ills'.

Many traditions survive at Westminster, but one that has been discontinued at Grant’s is the custom that saw new boarders ‘walk the mantelpiece’ in Hall. Lawrence Tanner, a pupil who kept a thorough diary of his time at Westminster, records his own experience of walking the mantelpiece here.

Grantites of particular interest include Lord John Russell (1792-1878), a Whig and Liberal Prime Minister and keen reformist; Charles Longley (1794-1868), Archbishop of Canterbury; Edgar Adrian (1899- 1977), winner of the Nobel Prize for Physiology; the actor John Gielgud (1904-2000) and Dominic Grieve MP (1956-).

Dryden, Charles, 1666-1704

  • GB-2014-WSA-06430
  • Person
  • 1666-1704

DRYDEN, CHARLES, eldest son of John Dryden (elected to Trin. Coll. Camb. 1650, qv); b. 6 Sep 1666; adm.; KS (Capt. ) 1680; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1683, adm. pens. 26 Jun 1683, aged 17, scholar 10 Apr 1684, matr. 1683; became a Roman Catholic; resident in Italy 1692-8; Chamberlain to Pope Innocent XII; translated the seventh satire of Juvenal for his father’s English version, and author of at least two published poems; drowned in the Thames, near Datchet, Bucks., 20 Aug 1704. DNB.

Dryden, John, 1667-1703

  • GB-2014-WSA-06431
  • Person
  • 1667-1703

DRYDEN, JOHN, second son of John Dryden (elected to Trin. Coll. Camb. 1650, qv); b. 1667; adm.; KS 1682; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1685, but did not take up his election and was placed by his father under the care of Rev. Obadiah Walker, Master of Univ. Coll. Oxford and a Roman Catholic; as a Roman Catholic convert nominated Fellow of Magdalen Coll. Oxford by James II 31 Dec 1687, admitted 11 Jan 1687/8, but removed by the Visitor 25 Oct 1688; went to Rome with his brother Charles Dryden (qv), and officiated as his brother’s deputy and perhaps replacement in the Papal household; accompanied Hon. William Cecil to Naples, Sicily and Malta Oct 1700- Jan 1701, his account of their tour being published posthumously in 1776; translated the 14th satire of Juvenal for his father’s English version; author, The Husband, his own Cuckold, a play performed at the theatre in Lincoln’s Inn Fields in 1696; d. unm. at Rome 16 Apr 1703. DNB.

Berger, John Stephen, 1876-1946

  • GB-2014-WSA-19283
  • Person
  • 1876-1946

Berger, John Stephen, son of Major-General Ernest Archibald Berger, of Baling, by Margaret C., daughter of Thomas Brereton, of Nenagh, co. Tipperary; b. March 4, 1876; adm. Sept. 1889 (H); left July 1892; a mining engineer in S. America, and in Mines Dept., Federated Malay States, 1908-31; m. April 12, 1909, Violet Frances, daughter of Basil Grey, of Ceylon; d. Dec. 15, 1946.

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