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BOSANQUET, RICHARD ARTHUR, youngest son of Samuel Richard Bosanquet (qv); b. 25 May 1852; adm. (G) 15 Jun 1865; QS 1867; left Mar 1870; a coffee planter and visiting agent, Ceylon, 1870-9; a merchant at Colombo, Ceylon, 1879-89; member, Ceylon Legislative Council; returned to England 1889; m. 15 Nov 1888 Ruth Rivers, eldest dau. of Sir Augustus Rivers Thompson KCSI CIE, Lieut. -Gov. Bengal; d. 20 Oct 1936.

BOSANQUET, WILLIAM HENRY FRANCIS, brother of Samuel Richard Bosanquet (qv); b. 5 Feb 1805; adm. (G) 19 Jun 1816; adm. Inner Temple 13 May 1825, called to bar Trinity 1836; equity draughtsman and conveyancer; of Knockane and Kilmagemogue, co. Waterford; m. 6 May 1861 Amelia Mary Georgiana, eldest dau. of John Sherlock, Kilmagemogue, co. Waterford; d. 29 Sep 1878. .

Worthington, Lawrence Valentine, brother of Arthur Little Worthington (qv); b. 6 Mar. 1920; adm. Sept. 1933 (R); left July 1938; Princeton Univ.; USNR 1943-6; Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst., res. asst 1946-50, res. assoc. 1950-8, physical oceanographer 1958-63, sen. scientist 1963, chairman Dept of Physical Oceanography 1974; m. 1952 Ruth Scott, d. of R. C. Mc Guinness of Denver, Colorado; d. May 1986.

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, 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, 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, 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 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-).