Floreat Etona: Anecdotes and Memories of Eton College

INDEX

• “Cally,” 325
• Campbell, Lord Archibald, 41
• Captain of the boats, 249, 250, 261, 263
• Carnegie, Mr. Andrew, his opinions concerning Greek, 232
• Carrington, Lady, 293
• Carter, the Rev. W. A., 4, 39
• Carter’s Chamber, 200, 203
• Carvings, elaborate, upon old organ case of Eton Chapel, 178
• Castle (inn), 142
• Champeau, French swimming instructor, 263, 264
• Chapel, 5;
• its architectural history, 173-175;
• so-called restoration, 181, 182;
• old woodwork and organ loft, 175, 176;
• new stalls, 182;
• present condition, 184-186
• Chapel sock, 41, 42, 175
• “Check nights,” 256, 257
• Chitty, Right Hon. Lord Justice, 275
• Christopher, the, 53, 57;
• anecdotes concerning, 110, 119, 257
• Christopher yard, 213
• Churton, Henry Norris, declines scholarship at King’s, 226
• Cloister Pump, 162
• Cloisters, 159, 161
• Cobbold, Felix Thornley, last Eton scholar under old statutes, 225
• College buildings, account of alterations and restorations in, 156-191
• College, horse-play in, 208-210
• College in past days, 196-218
• Collegers, their food in old days, 203-205
• Collet, 219
• “Colours,” 282, 283
• Colours of “boats” at present day, 263
• Costume, old Eton, 34-36
• Coventry, Lord, 258
• Cradock, Zachary, 15
• Craven, Lord, 40
• Creasy (the historian), 125
• Creasy, 269
• Culliford, James (chief butler), 205;
• his son, 206
• Cumberland, Duke of, 16, 18
• Curfew tower, vulgarisation of, 193, 194
• Curraghmore, 89
• Curzon, Lord, 127, 249
• Cust, family of, 182
• Dalmeny, Lord, 170
• Dalton, the Rev. T., favourable to theatricals, 219, 220
• Daniel (captain of Harrow eleven), 276
• “Deadman’s Hole,” 265
• Deeson, architect and “restorer” of Chapel, 182, 183
• De Foix, 12
• De Quincey, 227
• Douro, Lord, 76, 137
• Drury’s, 247
• Duleep Singh, the Maharajah, 323
• Dupuis, the Rev. G., a Vice-Provost, 28, 29, 150
• Durnford, the Rev. F. E. (Judy), 286
• Durnford, Richard, first Eton scholar to go to King’s under new statutes, 226
• Durnford, Mr. Walter, 309
• East window, 185
• Educational system at Eton, reflections upon, 227-242
• Election Chamber, 159, 160, 223
• Election Saturday, 84, 202, 222-224, 257, 258
• Elizabeth, Queen, relics of her visit to Eton, 8, 167, 319
• Elliot, Mr. Willie, 221
• “Estaminet,” the, 116
• Eton and Harrow match, 275-279;
• incident after, 278, 279
• Eton Mission, 296
• Evans, Miss, 64
• Evans, Mr. William, 41
• Fagging, 59, 309-311
• Fight, a fatal, 96, 97
• Fighting, anecdotes concerning, 92-98
• Finlay, 269
• Finmore (Dr. Hawtrey’s servant), 91
• “Fire-place,” 216, 217
• Fives, 244;
• first regular court, 245, 281, 282
• Floods, 105
• Flowers, Jimmy, 104
• Font, new, 186;
• old, 187
• Football, 244, 245
• Foote, his remark at the Castle Inn, 142
• Fourth of June, 222
• Fox, Charles James, 22, 169
• Frampton Court, viii, 175
• Frescoes in Chapel, 179, 180, 181
• “Furking,” 267
• Games popular in 1770, 240
• George the Third, 30-33
• Giles, 320, 321
• Gilmer, 219
• Gladstone, 57, 127, 169, 170, 233, 247, 248;
• as an Eton boy at Montem, 137
• Godolphin, Provost, 89, 173, 176
• Goodall, Dr., 26-29, 68, 72, 95, 187
• Goodford, Dr., 85, 86, 91, 117, 237, 256, 292
• Gown, changes concerning, 210, 211, 215
• Gray, 242
• Green, “Polly,” 284
• Grieve, an Eton boy burnt to death, 45
• Groves, Barney, 104
• Hale, the Rev. E., 293
• Hall, Jack, 103
• Hall, the College, 15, 140;
• remodelling of western end, architectural history, 162;
• drastic restoration in 1858, 163;
• present condition, 165
• Harcourt, the Rt. Hon. Lewis, vii, 127, 128, 201
• Harding, 80, 273
• Harris, Mr., 234
• Harrow, 240
• Hatecliffe, William, first Eton scholar (1443), 225
• Hatton, Mrs., her “sock shop,” 247
• Haverley, Jack, 254
• Hawtrey, Dr., 40, 41, 58, 65, 66, 81, 84, 87, 95, 111, 118, 143, 149, 150, 160, 255, 267, 274, 288-290;
• his monument in Chapel, 189
• Hawtrey brothers, 219
• Hawtrey, Mr. John, 51
• Hawtrey, Mr. Stephen, 233
• Heath, Dr., 25
• Henley, 240, 263
• Henry VI., 3, 5, 212, 225, 226
• Henry VIII., 6, 7
• Hexter, Major, 233
• Hill, Mr., saves old Eton organ case, 177
• Hoaxes, 100, 317;
• an elaborate modern one, 317-320
• Hockey, 245, 246
• Hodgson, Provost, 150, 196, 197, 203;
• his reforms in College, 215
• Hoisting, 326, 327
• Hoop, its former popularity at Eton, 242, 243
• Hoppie (sock cad), 110
• Hornby, Dr., 11, 65, 87, 92, 105, 169, 279, 288-290, 291, 294, 307
• Illustrated London News, 140, 211 (note)
• Ingalton Drake’s, 320, 325
• James, the Rev. C. C., 292
• Jesse, Mr. J. H., 88, 89
• Jobey Joel, 110, 219
• Johnson, William (afterwards William Cory), anecdotes of, 119-123
• Joynes, the Rev. J. L., 87, 287, 288
• Joynes, young Mr., 291
• Keate, Dr., 35, 50, 57;
• anecdotes of, 68-82, 102, 116, 214, 219, 231, 252, 255, 281, 282, 294
• Keate’s Lane, 281, 282
• Kenyon, Lord, 219
• King’s, 132, 134;
• arms of, on old Eton organ case, 178, 223;
• dissolution of ancient bond with Eton, 225, 226
• Kintore, Lord, 97
• Ladas, 248
• Lanesborough, Lord, 284
• Langford, Lord, 39
• Layton’s, 59
• Leaving Books, 64, 65;
• Money, 65, 66
• Lectern, ancient, 187
• Leveson-Gower, Lord Ronald, 41
• Levett, Berkeley, 219
• Levi (sock cad), 109
• Lewis, Dr., 90
• Lock-up, 93, 305, 327
• Lock-up Parade, 327
• Lomax, 137
• Long Chamber, 158, 172, 197;
• description of, 200-202;
• remodelling of, 221-222
• Long Glass, 66, 67
• Long-morning, 60
• Lord’s, 276, 279, 326
• Lord’s (old), 274
• Lorne, Lord, 41
• Lotteries, 322, 323
• “Lower College” (obsolete form of football), 267
• Lower School, 8, 170-172
• Lubbock, Mr. Alfred, 277
• Lubbock, Mr. Robin, 278
• Lubbock family, 278
• Lucas, Mr. Reginald, 220, 319 (note)
• Lupton’s Chapel, 13, 185
• Luxmoore, Mr. H. E., 185
• Lyte, Sir Henry Maxwell, 3, 180
• Lyttelton, the Hon. and Rev E. (Headmaster), 295-297
• Lyttelton family, 278
• Lytton, Phil, 204
• M’Niven minor, 276
• Malim, William, 6, 7, 134
• Map-making, 49
• Marcon, W., 269
• Memorial Hall, 191, 192, 247, 248
• Miller, Jem, 272
• “Missis” (sock seller), 110
• Mitchell, Mr. R. A. H., 221, 276
• Monckton, George (afterwards Lord Galway), 41
• Montem, 33;
• description of and anecdotes, 129-156;
• waving the flag at, 144, 149;
• costumes worn at, 145, 146;
• last celebration, 148, 149;
• abolition, 150;
• relics of, 152, 156
• Montem poet, 152-156;
• odes, 153
• Mordaunt, H. J., 269
• Moultrie, John, 3, 40, 41
• Mowbray Morris, the late Mr., 2
• Mozley, Mr. H. W., 223
• Muttlebury, S. D., 263
• Naylor’s, Miss, 125, 127
• Newcastle scholar, 223, 240
• Nicknames, 60-62
• Noblemen, 38, 41
• Noblemen’s stalls (torn down at restoration of Chapel), 175, 182
• Officers’ Training Corps, 293
• Okes, Dr., 197
• Oppidan Dinner, 259-261
• “Oppidan scholars,” 231
• “Oppidans’ Museum,” 115
• “Orders,” 313, 314
• Organ case, description of old, 176;
• its history after being discarded by Eton authorities, 177, 178
• Organ screen, modern, 184
• Pass, Charley (sock cad), 108
• Pepys, 15, 164, 172
• Phillott, 269
• Pinnacles, rebuilding of old, 189, 190
• Plumtre, Mr., 150, 173
• Poaching, 101
• Pop, 77, 119, 247-249, 297, 328
• Porson, 213, 216
• “Poser’s child,” quaint usage, 223
• “Posers,” 222, 223
• Powell, Jem, 102, 103
• Powell, well-known character at the Wall, 268
• Poyntz, Stephen, captain of Montem in 1706, lines by, 136
• Praepostors, 6, 9, 306, 307
• “Private Tutors,” 41;
• nickname for “cads,” 102
• Private Tutors, 105
• Prose, 46
• Protestant Etonian martyrs, 7, 8
• Provost’s Lodge, 160
• Punch, 149
• Rackets, 281
• Rattee, contractor for “restoration” of Chapel, 183
• “Ripping,” quaint usage, 224
• Roberts, Lord, 170
• Rosebery, Lord, vii, 127, 171, 248, 258
• Rouse, Provost, 13
• Rowing, notes upon history of, at Eton, 252-263
• Rowland’s (sock shop), 205
• Rugeley, chapel at, 178
• Rushes, the, 122, 256
• St. Aldwyn, Lord, 258
• St. Andrew’s Day, 38, 265, 268, 269
• St. Thomas, Dominican Monastery of, 177
• Salt Hill, 130 et seq.;
• present condition of, 156
• Salvin, architect, 194
• “Saps,” 239
• Savernake, Lord, 83
• Savile, Sir Henry, 9, 10
• School Magazines, 25, 26, 41
• School Pulling, 326
• Scrulton, F. F. V. captain of the boats, 1911, 263
• “Scug,” 62
• Second Upper Club, 280
• Selwyn, George Augustus, 264
• Selwyn, Thomas, diary of, 253
• Seymour, Berkeley, 136
• Sharpe, S. S., 263
• Sheep’s Bridge, 273
• Shelley, 94, 95, 123, 169
• Sheridan, Mrs., viii
• Shirking, 52, 53
• Shore, Jane, 5
• Simmonds, Mr. Robert, viii
• Sir Galahad, picture in Chapel, 185
• Sixpenny, 97, 280
• Sixpenny Corner, 97
• Slang, 62
• Smoking, 17, 305
• “Smut,” 117
• Snape, Mrs., 63
• “Snip,” 322
• Sock, 62
• Sock cads, 106-110
• Solomon, 321, 322
• Spankie (the celebrated sock cad), 106-109
• Spode, Mr. Josiah, 177
• Sporting Magazine, account of Etonian in 1799, 99-100
• Spottiswoode’s, 320
• Stafford, Lord, 39
• Stage coachmen, 113
• Statutes, their violation about 1834, 198-200
• Statutes, new, 225, 226
• Stephen, J. K., 166, 270
• “Stiggins” (see Rev. C. C. James), 292
• Stockhore, Herbert, the Montem poet, account of, 153-156
• Stone, Mr. Christopher, 62
• Stone, the Rev. E. D., 61, 244
• Stratford de Redcliffe, Lord, 94, 275
• Street, Mr. G. E., architect, 184
• Strugnal, 271
• Studd family, 278
• Sunday questions, 237
• Surly, 222, 256, 257
• Sutherland, Duke of, 39
• Swimming, 263, 264
• Swishing, 9, 82-88
• Tap, 66, 326-328
• Tapestry formerly in College Hall, 165
• Tarver, Mr. F., 219
• Teape, A. S., 277
• Theatricals at Eton, 218-221
• Thompson, Theophilus, 136
• Threepenny day, 206, 207
• Timbralls, the, 270
• Townshend, Charles Fox, 77, 78, 247
• Training Corps, Officers’, 26, 293, 294
• Trials, 24, 47, 236, 241
• Trotman (sock cad), 109
• Trotman’s gardens, 247, 282
• Tuck, a Colleger, 224
• “Tug,” supposed origin of term, 210
• Tutorial system, 229, 230
• Tutors, private, 41
• Udall, Nicholas, 7
• Under the Clock, dramatic sketch given by Mr. Bourchier when at Eton, 221
• Upper Club, 273, 276, 281
• Upper School, 168
• “Upper Sixpenny,” 280
• “Ushers,” 298
• Vaughan, Mr. E. L., 156
• Verses, Latin, 49, 238, 239
• Victoria, Queen, 33, 150, 324
• Volunteers, 293
• Wall game, notes upon, 265-270
• Walpole, Horace, 111, 112, 242;
• Sir Robert, 16, 19;
• Lord Walpole of Walterton, 16;
• Lord Walpole, 254
• Warre, Dr. (Provost), 253 (note), 294, 295
• “Water boils,” “Make tea,” 273
• Waterford, Lord, 88, 89
• Watts, 185
• Waynflete, William of, 4, 190
• Webber, College servant, 205
• Webber’s, Harry, 312
• Wellesley, the Marquess, 126, 127, 169, 227;
• his memorials in old and new chapels, 187, 188
• Wellington, the great Duke of, 59, 94, 105, 125, 169, 211;
• as a boy at Montem in 1781, 136, 137
• West, Rt. Hon. Sir Algernon, a survivor of the last Montem, viii;
• his experiences, 144
• Westminster, 258;
• boat races with Eton, 262, 263;
• cricket matches, 274
• White (Dr. Hornby’s servant), 92
• White Hart (inn), 259
• Wilder, the Rev. John, 162, 165, 181, 186
• Williams’, 325
• Winchilsea, Lord, 271, 272
• Winchester, 5, 181, 240, 275, 277, 279, 280
• Windham, William, 26
• Windmill (inn), Botham’s, 142, 156
• Windsor Fair, 53-55
• Windsor races, 56
• Woodyer, Mr. (architect), 189, 191
• Wotton, Sir Henry, 10-13
• Wren, Sir Christopher, 175, 176