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HANNES, SIR EDWARD, son of Edward Hannes, Devizes, Wilts.; b.; adm.; KS 1678; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1682, matr. Dec 1682, aged 18, Westminster Student 18 Dec 1682 – Dec 1693, Faculty Student 23 Dec 1693 – c. 16 Mar 1699; BA 1686; MA 1689; MB 23 Jan 1691/2; MD 1695; Reader in Chemistry 1690; attended William, Duke of Gloucester 1700; Physician to Queen Anne 9 Jul 1702 – Nov 1709; knighted 29 Jul 1705; a collection of school exercises by him is in Cambridge Univ. Library; donor of the silver “poculum” for the use of the KSS; bequeathed £1000 towards the erection of the new Dormitory, and £1000 towards the completion of Peckwater Quadrangle, Christ Church; m. 1st, 1 Oct 1698 Anne, dau. of John Packer, Shellingford, Berks.; m. 2nd, 15 Jun 1701 Anne, widow of Henry Bull, of Oxford and of Shapwick, Somerset, and dau. of John Luffe DM, Regius Professor of Medicine, Oxford; d. 22 Jul 1710. DNB.

By his will dated 5 May 1708 (proved 21 Jul 1710), he left £1000 to the Dean and Chapter of Westminster upon trust that the same should be laid out in erecting a building for the King’s Scholars for the time being in Westminster School in such place as should be directed by the Dean and Chapter. He desired that Sir Christopher Wren (qv) and Henry Aldrich (qv), Dean of Christ Church, should be consulted “in contriveing and designeing” the building. He also gave the two-handled silver Poculum which is still used in College Hall on great occasions (this was lost at some point, and repurchased for the School in 1952).

GUMBLETON, GEORGE, younger son of Rev. George Gumbleton, Belgrove, near Queenstown, co. Cork, and his second wife Frances Anne, dau. of James Penrose, Woodhill, co. Cork; b. 4 Jun 1843; adm. 30 Jul 1857 (G); QS 1858; Capt. of the School 1861; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1862, matr. 12 Jun 1862; BA 1866; MA and BCL 1869; DCL 1886; adm. Inner Temple 6 May 1867, called to bar 26 Jan 1870; migr. to Middle Temple; Oxford Circuit; a law reporter for The Times; founded Gumbleton English Verse Prize at the School 1874; author, Sketches in Sunny Climes; m. 18 Jul 1889 Jessie Ramsay, eldest dau. of Thomas Skinner, Roland Gardens, South Kensington; d. 25 May 1894.

In 1874 he gave a prize of £5 for the encouragement of English verse composition. This gift he continued annually until 1881, when he gave £100 as a permanent endowment for the prize. The endowment is now held in the School’s Gumbleton Fund (terms varied by schemes of 16 Apr 1959 and 8 Nov 1965).

CRACHERODE, CLAYTON MORDAUNT, son of Col. Mordaunt Cracherode, Governor of Minorca, of Taplow, Bucks., and Mary, sister of Charles Morice (qv); b. 23 Jun 1730; adm. Jun 1737; KS 1742; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1746, matr. 6 Jun 1746, Westminster Student from 24 Dec 1746; BA 1750; MA 1753; ordained priest (Oxford) 25 May 1755; Curate, Binsey, Oxfordshire 1762; did not seek or obtain further religious preferment; spent his life in collecting books, engravings, gems and coins, bequeathed by him to the British Museum; Trustee, British Museum, from 1784; FRS 15 Dec 1785; FSA 8 Mar 1787; member Society of Dilettanti from 1787; left legacies of £1000 each to Christ Church, Oxford, and to the School; d. unm. 5 Apr 1799. Buried in East Cloister, Westminster Abbey. DNB.

By his will dated 9 Apr 1792 (proved 17 Apr 1799), he bequeathed to Westminster School “the sum of £500, the interest to be divided as is done in the case of a benefaction left by my excellent friend Fane Sharpe, Esq. about the year 1771 for the advantage of the King’s Scholars elected to the two Universitities, the management to be under the same trustees”. The fund was subsequently consolidated with the School Exhibition Fund, and the benefaction commemorated by an exhibition known as the Cracherode exhibition.

BROXHOLME, NOEL, son of Robert Broxholme, Oakham, Rutland; b.; adm.; KS 1700; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1704, but went to Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 12 Oct 1704, aged 18, Canoneer Student 23 Jul 1705-18 (void), Tutor 1710-1; BA 1709; MA 1711; migr. to University Coll., where he was one of first two Radcliffe Travelling Fellows, Jul 1715; Padua Univ., adm. 20 Dec 1716; MB and MD 1723; student, St. Thomas’s Hospital, 1709; FRCP 22 Mar 1724/5, Censor 1726, Harveian Orator 1731; one of the six physicians appointed to St. George’s Hospital at its first general board held 19 Oct 1733; Physician to Frederick, Prince of Wales, 9 Nov 1734 – c. May 1739; bequeathed £500 for the benefit of the King’s Scholars to be applied “in such manner as the two upper masters of the said school shall think fit”. The fund was subsequently consolidated with the School Exhibition Fund, and the benefaction commemorated by an exhibition known as the Broxholme exhibition; m. 7 May 1730, Anne, widow of William Dowdeswell, Pull Court, Worcs., mother of William Dowdeswell (adm. 1730, qv), and sister of James Hammond (qv); committed suicide 8 Jul 1748. DNB.

BOURNE, VINCENT, son of Andrew Bourne, St. Martins in the Fields, Westminster, wig maker, and Ann --- (IGI); bapt. St. Martin’s in the Fields 22 Jul 1694 (IGI); adm.; Min. Can. (aged 14) 1709; QS 1710; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1714, adm. pens. 27 May 1714, scholar 13 May 1715, matr. 1715; BA 1717/8; MA 1721; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll., 6 Sep 1720, Major Fellow 5 Jul 1721; an Usher at the School 1720 - Sep 1747; kept a boarding house in Cowley Street 1731-40 and in College Street 1741 to death 2 Dec 1747, where he was succeeded by Mrs.Porten. First of thirty-one recorded boarders adm. Jan.1735/6, last recorded boarder adm. Oct 1745. Five further boarders, adm. between Jun 1749 and Jan 1751/2, are described in Dr.Nicoll’s admission book as boarding with “Bourne”, and it may be that these were boarders with Bourne’s widow Lucia, presumably at a different address from that in College Street; Housekeeper and Deputy Serjeant-at-Arms, House of Commons, Nov 1734; an indolent teacher and a lax disciplinarian; William Cowper (qv), who loved “the memory of Vinny Bourne” and translated a number of his old master’s Latin poems into English verse, relates seeing the Duke of Richmond “set fire to his greasy locks and box his ears to put it out again” (Southey, Life and Works of William Cowper, iv, 98); a Latin poet of great charm, “sucking from every flower, making a flower of everything, his diction all Latin and his thoughts all English” (Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1905, vi, 457); published his Poemata, Latine partim reddita partim scripta, 1734; m. 25 Mar 1727 Lucia, widow of George Jewell (qv); d. 2 Dec 1747. DNB.

WEBBER, WILLIAM CHARLES FYNES, eldest son of James Webber (qv); b. 1 Jan 1815; adm. 5 Apr 1826; KS 1829; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1833, matr. 23 May 1833, Westminster Student; BA 1837; MA 1839; an Usher at the School 1837-40, left “on account of the extreme fewness of the T.B.” (Town Boy Ledger); ordained deacon 22 Dec 1839, priest 20 Dec 1840 (both Oxford); Perpetual Curate of Maiden Bradley, Wilts., 1842-4; Rector of St. Botolph’s, Aldersgate, London 6 Jun 1845 – 3 Aug 1876; Minor Canon of St. Paul’s 2 Dec 1851 – 23 Dec 1858, Sub-Dean from 23 Dec 1858, Succentor 1859-75; m. 19 Apr 1853 his cousin Catherine Mary, eldest dau. of William Charles Webber (qv); d. at Lausanne, Switzerland 27 Jun 1881.

KYTE, JOSHUA, twin son of William Kyte, Sherborne, Gloucs., and Anne ---; bapt. Sherborne, Gloucs. 13 Oct 1723; adm.; Min. Can. (aged 13) 1738; KS 1739; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1743, matr. 1 Jun 1743, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1743 – void 23 Dec 1765, expiry year of grace as R. Wendlebury from 24 Dec 1764; BA 1747; MA 1751; BD and DD 1765; an Usher at the School 1751 – Feb 1764, shown as taking the Shell form in undated list of teaching staff assignable to 1762 or 1763; ordained; Curate, St. John the Evangelist, Westminster 1762; Chaplain, 32nd Foot 25 Jan 1763 – still 1773; Rector of Wendlebury, Oxfordshire, from 1764; Rector of Swyncombe, Oxfordshire, from 21 Jul 1788; master of a school at Hammersmith, Middlesex; m. [by 1767] Loretta Maria ---; d. 22 Nov 1788. [Surname alternatively spelled KEYT ?]

KNYVETT, CHARLES WILLIAM, eldest son of Charles Knyvett, Sonning, Berks., Organist of St. George’s, Hanover Square, London, and Jane, dau. of John Laney, Shorwell, Isle of Wight; grandson of Charles Knyvett (qv); b. 11 Aug 1796; adm. 28 Jun 1808; KS 1811; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1815, matr. 8 May 1815, Westminster Student to 1829; BA 1819; MA 1821; ordained deacon 1819, priest 1820; an Usher at the School 1823-7; Perpetual Curate of Maiden Bradley, Wilts., 4 Jul 1829-42; Minor Canon of Windsor 7 May 1834 – Apr 1848; Rector of West Heslerton, Yorks., from 1847; m. 2 Jul 1829 Julia, second dau. of John Bromfield Ferrers (qv); d. 20 Dec 1881.