Reverend Benjamin Fuller James by a member of the English School
- GB 2014 WS-03-PIC-001/86
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- 19th Century
Head and shoulders; he is turned to the left; he wears a black academic dress.
Reverend Benjamin Fuller James by a member of the English School
Head and shoulders; he is turned to the left; he wears a black academic dress.
Reverend James Gow by Andrew Carrick Gow
Half-length portrait of Gow seated, turned left; he wears a red cassock over black academic dress and collar; he sits on a carved chair; his hands rest on a book with the school arms upon it; there is a pilaster on the wall behind him.
Gow, Andrew Carrick, 1848-1920
Richard Grant and Mother Grant III by James Warren Childe
Richard Grant II or his son Gabriel Grant by James Warren Childe
Miniature on bone or ivory, head and shoulders of a young man; he wears a white cravat and dark blue coat. Inscribed on the reverse: "J.W.Childe 17 Buckingham Street Strand"
Childe, James Warren, 1780-1862
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.
Richard Williamson by John Harwood
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
Harwood, John, 1816-1872
Yeo, Jonathan, 1970-