Minutes of the meeting on 11 January 2011
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Minutes from the meeting of the 2010 (450th anniversary) Working Party held on Tuesday 11 January 2011.
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Minutes of the meeting on 11 January 2011
Minutes from the meeting of the 2010 (450th anniversary) Working Party held on Tuesday 11 January 2011.
Latin Play actor W.C. Mayne (Queen's Scholar 1890-1896) in costume as Simo.
W. & A.H. Fry
Minutes of the meeting on 10 June 2011
Minutes from the meeting of the 2010 (450th anniversary) Working Party held on Friday 10 June 2011.
Latin Play actor B.C. Boulter (Queen's Scholar 1890-1895) in costume.
W. & A.H. Fry
Unidentified Latin Play actor in costume
Maull & Fox
Henry Mordaunt Clavering to John Benn
Adding his name to JB's in the petition to the Dean of Westminster (Buckland) not to cancel the Latin Play, appreciated as much by town boys as by the scholars (who did the actual acting). (Both HMC and JB appear in the petition A0019/D3FK7.) Quote from Terence Eunuchus. In relation to this asks for address of Thomas Trebeck. Desirable for schools to employ only old boys, in order that frivolous but harmless traditions can be maintained - e.g. Liddell, educated at Charterhouse, has been trying to stop or at least control the Greaze. Pulteney (see 24) visits often, but this will stop for a while as he is visiting a son who has a rich living in Lincolnshire and hunts and shoots - quote from The Chase by William Somerville. Has been reading a Life of Watson, Bishop of LLandaff, father of a KS of 1777 (not so, according to the Record), and also the reminiscences of their fencing coach, Henry Angelo (in a room in Dean's Yard rented from William Pierce, teacher of book-keeping and arithmetic).
Clavering, Henry Mordaunt, 1766-1850
Cast of Andria on stage in costume.
W. & A.H. Fry
Henry Mordaunt Clavering to John Benn
Has not forwarded the name of Thomas Trebeck (see 7 and 29) to the committee established to support the play (see 29), since Bull wrote that he did not know if he was still alive. Pulteney reports that cricket balls are now bowled so violently that players must be padded. On translations of Terence - thinks that new translations should appear every 50 years to reflect changing idiom. Westminster said to be improving under new Head Master (see 29) - hopes that he will keep the best of the old customs, such as fagging (what hardship is it to carry 2 or 3 hats on one's shoulders to Tothill Fields, or to blow on a fire?). On the import of cattle and sheep by railroad from the interior of Germany and its negligible effect on London meat prices, and on the state of the potato harvest. To assist his French a Frenchwoman comes in three times a week to read Molieres to him out loud.
Clavering, Henry Mordaunt, 1766-1850
Henry Mordaunt Clavering to John Benn
Both he and Bull have separately lost an old friend - hence the break in correspondence. Does not expect a list of those supporting the revival of the Play to be published (see 29). On the question of establishing diplomatic relations with the Vatican - had any attempt been made during the reign of George III to introduce a Rothschild or a Roman Catholic into parliament, he would have gone mad much sooner. On Spike Island (see 24) and problems in Ireland - ministers see difficulties arising from arming and fortifying the island and increasing the number of warships stationed there. Increasing violence of the lower orders. Extension of rail network enables more farmers to send produce to London. Mentions Angelo's Reminiscences again (see 29) - he goes to eat beefsteaks at Mother Dawson's (a nearby cookshop in Dean's Yard) between school hours.
Clavering, Henry Mordaunt, 1766-1850
Cast in costume on stage.