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AVELING, CLAUDE LINDSAY CLIFFORD, second son of Stephen Thomas Aveling, Boveney, near Windsor, Berks. , mechanical engineer, and Mary Phebe, dau. of Rev. Richard Samuel Clifford, Vicar of Teynham, Kent; b. 26 Oct 1869; adm. from King’s School, Rochester (R) 31 May 1883; QS Jan 1884; elected to an exhibition at Christ Church, Oxford Jul 1888, matr. 12 Oct 1888; BA 1893; MA 1921; Assistant to Director, Royal Coll. of Music 1894; Assistant Registrar, Royal Coll. of Music, Registrar 1913-35; author, libretti and songs; m. 16 Apr 1903 Marguerite Mary Theodora, only dau. of Rev. William Henry Robins DD, Vicar of Gillingham, Kent, and Hon. Canon of Rochester; d. 28 Dec 1943.

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.

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.

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.