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STONE, John; b. ; adm. (aged 12) May 1736 (Heath's); left 1741; apprenticed July 11, 1741, to John Cartwright, of Westminster, attorney.

GREEN, JOHN FRANCIS, brother of Thomas Green (qv, adm. 1832); b. 9 Oct 1822; bapt. 17 Nov 1822 at Badbury, Northants; adm. 28 May 1834 (Scott's); d. 27 Aug 1834.

BEALE, THOMAS; b. 2 Jul 1805; adm. 25 May 1818 (Best's); d.

The day house was named after A. A. Milne (OW), the creator of Winnie-the-Pooh.

The house was named after Old Westminster Richard Hakluyt (1553-1616), an Elizabethan geographer.

The house was named after Henry Liddell, Head Master from 1846 to 1855, who rescued the school from its early nineteenth-century decline, when prospective parents preferred boarding schools in the country to the unwholesome airs of London and pupil numbers dipped beneath 80. Liddell later became Dean of Christ Church and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford. His daughter, Alice Liddell, was the inspiration for 'Alice in Wonderland' and 'Alice through the Looking Glass'.

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-).

Bury, John Bernard, brother of Kenneth de Kay Bury (qv); b. 10 July 1917; adm. Sept. 1930 (G); left July 1935; Balliol Coll. Oxf., matric. 1935; Roy. Signals 1940-5 (Maj. ); joined Shell Group 1947; dir. Shipping Fedn 1955-9; foreign member Portuguese Academy 1962; dir. Shell (Switzerland) 1964-6; Fellow commoner Churchill Coll. Camb. 1972-3; author of various works on Spanish and Italian art and architecture; m. 8 Sept. 1945 Anne Henderson MBE, d. of Duncan Henderson of Willingdon, Sussex; d. 18 Jan. 2017.

Robbins, Edgar Carmichael, son of John Haldeman Robbins of Beckenham, Kent, and Enid Amy, d. of Edgar Rowe Everington, solicitor, of Upper Norwood; b. 22 Mar. 1911; adm. Sept. 1924 (H); left July 1928; LLB (Lond.) 1933, John Mackrell Prizeman of the Law Soc.; adm. a solicitor 1933; joined BBC legal staff 1934, solicitor BBC 1945, legal adviser 1959, retd 1974; CBE 1957; asst clerk and treasurer City of London Solicitors' Company 197 5; m. 26 Dec. 1936 Alice Eugenia, sister of Humphrey Norman Nash (qv); d. 1 Sept. 1988.

TERRY, ASTLEY FELLOWES, eldest son of Lieut. -Col. Thomas Henry Clarke Terry, Burvale, Surrey, and Charlotte, second dau. of Henry Fellowes; b. 12 May 1840; adm. 20 Jan 1853 (James'); QS 1854; left Mar 1855; Ensign, 60th Rifles 1 Apr 1858; Lieut., 11 Sep 1860; Adjt., 23 Jun 1863; Capt., 18 Dec 1867; Maj., 7 Jan 1880; Lieut. -Col., Kingís Royal Rifle Corps 1 Jul 1881; Col. in Army 1 Jul 1885; retd. as hon. Major-Gen., 1 Jul 1887; served in Zulu campaign 1879 and in operations in East Griqualand 1880; Knight of Justice, Order of St. John of Jerusalem 26 May 1908; author, Uniform and Equipment, Kingís Royal Rifle Corps, 1913, and other works; m. 13 Dec 1864 Edith, youngest dau. of Henry Cory, Weybridge, Surrey; d. 8 Dec 1926.