Westminster School's Archive & Collections

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1660

Part of Westminster School's Archive and Collections

Baker, Richard, Sir, 1568-1645

A Chronicle of the Late Intestine War in three Kingdoms of England . .

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1676

Part of Westminster School's Archive and Collections

Heath, James, 1629-1664

A Circumstantial and Authentic Account of a late Unhappy Affair which happened at the Star and Garter Tavern in Pall Mall

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1765

Part of Westminster School's Archive and Collections

Byron, William, 5th Baron Byron, 1722-1798

A Classroom in Ashburnham House

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c.1911

Part of Westminster School's Archive and Collections

One copy annotated on reverse by R.S. Chalk, as follows:
'Class Rooms up Ashburnham were of course not originally designed for the purpose. As such they would have given a present-day Minister of Education a heart-attack, and certainly have been deemed unworthy of any Comprehensive or even County Primary School. However, we had no complaints - except about that ultra-gloomy room, on the ground floor (facing out on to Ashburnham Green) where the ferocious and austere E.L. Fox ruled the Upper Fifth with his rod of iron.
As far as I remember, the Class Room depicted was not a (Upper and Lower School, independent of Forms) Form Room, but was used for Sets, till these were discontinued after the arrival of Costley White.
Here in 1918-19 I learnt French under the acidulous W.N. Just and Maths under the doddering Rev. H. Hancock. (Both were ageing men, recalled as temporary members of the Staff to hold the fort while younger Masters were absent on War Service).'

A collection of dialogues, English and Hindoostanee