Westminster School Past and Present (1884) 607pp

TITLE Westminster School Past and Present (1884) 607pp. This is a scanned copy of the original book containing both searchable text and the original graphics. It is provided as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file, you can search for names, places and items which may not be in the index. It can also be purchased at a reduced price from lulu.com as a downloadable PDF eBook.

AUTHOR Frederic Hale Forshall was the son of the Reverend Josiah Forshall (1795–1863), who worked at the British Museum. FH Forshall was a Queen’s Scholar at Westminster School and in 1848 won a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge, but left there (for reasons unknown) a year later, when he was about 19 years old (i.e. born c1830) and came to Sydney. [Source the University of Sydney, Record Archive 2006]

PUBLISHED LONDON: WYMAN & SONS, 74-76, GREAT QUEEN STEEET,LINCOLN’S-INN FIELDS.1884.

DESCRIPTION My primary aim in the following pages has been not so much to write a history of Westminster School, as to preserve some record of, those customs and usages of the School which, from the rapid changes in modern ideas of education, have in great part perished; and all of which, in the course of one or two more generations, will have probably become obsolete. Such customs and usages are valuable from their historical associations. They form part of that severe and exact discipline which has enabled a School, once beyond dispute the most famous in England, to send forth so many champions who have done valiantly in the Church, the Senate, and the Field. Other Public Schools may boast to have equal historical claims in this respect with Westminster; and if numerical excellence be the test we may be disposed to allow the equality. But no School, regarded as a unit, has placed its signature on the scroll of history in such clear and distinct characters as from time to time have been traced out by Westminster. British Museum Integrated Catalogue entry.

LANGUAGE: English

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PROVISION This eBook is provided as a searchable PDF document (Acrobat format Document) and so you can search for names, places and items many of which are not indexed in the normal index. The Adobe™ Acrobat™ (.pdf) format requires the FREE Adobe™ Acrobat™ Reader . Download and installation instructions for the Adobe™ Acrobat™ Reader are on the Adobe™ website. This reader allows the viewing and printing of the book. There are 607 pages in the original book. There is one PDF file, in black and white.003959.pdf. This is the main body of the book. This file is 82MB.

The book is a scanned copy of a printed document. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. The text interpretation by optical scanning of the document may not be a precise interpretation of the written text. Users should refer to the scanned image to validate the interpretation of the material.

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