FOOTNOTES:
[1] See Chapter VI.
[2] It seems to have been an old custom for boys who died at Eton to be buried thus.
[3] See Chapter VI.
[5] Mr. Tucker in Eton of Old.
[8] See The Architectural History of the University of Cambridge and of the Colleges of Cambridge and Eton, by the late Robert Willis, M.A., F.R.S., edited and brought up to date by the late John Willis Clark, M.A., Cambridge, at the University Press, 1886.
[9] This appeared in the Illustrated London News during the forties of the last century.
[10] This list is the one given in Nugae Etonenses.
[11] Those interested in this period should not fail to read Eton in 1829-1830, a translation of a boating diary written in Greek by Thomas Selwyn. The translator and editor, the present Provost of Eton, Dr. Warre, D.D., M.V.O., well known to several generations of Etonians as Assistant and Headmaster, did more than any one else to improve Eton rowing.
[12] Captain of the eleven 1883-1884, Unionist member for Portsmouth 1900-1906. In more recent years Mr. Lucas has become known to many as a writer with a particularly pleasant style, who is also possessed of a gift for delicate versification.