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Arrived at Westminster from a prep school on a farm in Sussex where there were only 60 pupils. The Westminster Masters’ gowns and mortar boards. The Westminster pupils’ uniform was complicated and varied according to whether it was a saint’s day or in season or out of season. [3.54] Arrival at Westminster and learning Westminster slang. [5.54] They put on plays all the time in different languages. [6.43] Busby’s. [7.18] The Latin Play, which was in the summer then. [9.49] The timetable. There were very few day boys then. There were only three in Busby’s. [12.33] Spartan living conditions. No heating. Meals. They would draw lots not to sit next to the House Master’s wife. [15.25] Fagging. [17.02] The role of the House Tutors. [18.42] Lunches in Busby’s. The popularity of the House Matron. Personality of the House Master. [23.10] Busby’s a relatively liberal house. [23.50] Music his favourite subject. A German Master, Sanger, who played Mozart and Haydn symphonies through lessons. The French Teach, Hugo Garden, was a world expert on Mahler. Both were refugees. [27.19] Charles Keeley. His teaching style. [28.52] Class sizes. [30.00] Musical facilities and the Director of Music, Arnold Foster, who was Vaughan Williams’ musical secretary. Conditions for music teaching. [35.03] Viola lessons from Beryl Ireland in the Master of the Scholars’ drawing room. The school organist. [37.45] David Burke, the first full-time music teacher. [39.49] He sometimes covered for Burke when he had left the school. [40.36] Exams. [41.56] Reaction to his decision to go to a conservatoire. [44.57] Learning the organ with the Abbey organist. [48.03] The school Abbey choir. Changing standards in church music. [49.44] School and house concerts. Difficulties of re-starting the musical tradition in the school. [56.52] The choir. [59.18] The orchestra’s repertoire. [59.58] House concerts. [1.05.44] Busby house prayers. Ramona, the house maid, paid to sabotage house prayers. [1.09.43] Masters who stand out. [1.14.43] The importance of the Common Room. [1.16.03] Boys’ family backgrounds at the time. Career prospects. [1.27.57] Competition between House Masters to have the most attractive maids. Boys’ appreciation. Throwing oranges at the monks in the monastery opposite.

Half-length seated portrait; he wears academic dress, collar and bands; one hand is shown; the painting has become very dark. Signed c.l. J. Harewood pinxt/1844

Screenprint, signed and titled in pencil, labelled 'Artists Proof' .

Plinth, handles. Awarded 2003-2004

Half-length portrait; he faces towards the left of the portrait; he wears black academic dress and collar, and a grey wig. Inscribed top-left with the name of the sitter.

Three-quarters length portrait on a much reduced scale. Hobart is seated in a red chair, wearing black, with his hands clasped in his lap; he faces slightly towards the left; to the right is a low table with a number of bundles of papers tied up with red cord or ribbon.

Digitally generated image of Robert Hooke. This was the winning entry of the 'Portraying Robert Hooke' competition run by the Library of the Royal Society in 2003 to mark the tercentenary of Robert Hooke's death. The prize was donated by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. One of an edition of six.

Plaster bust; he is shown full face. Inscribed on reverse:

Small oil portrait showing Southey's head and shoulders. He looks down and to his left.