rior. entrance are class-rooms, a washing-room, and a large corridor leading to the school-house dining-hall, a lofty room 25 feet The intehigh, 40 long, and 25 broad, with a gallery running along one end of it. On the first floor is a corridor over the one on the ground floor, and two class-rooms of the same size as those below, and two smaller rooms for the use of the two schoolhouse Assistant Masters. Parallel with the cubicle room, and over the class-rooms on the first-floor, are dormitories for the smaller boys, bath-rooms, and the House-Master's bedrooms; and over the dining-hall, at the south end of the building, is the infirmary, consisting of three large and airy rooms and bath-rooms, which can be completely shut off from the rest of the house, in case there should be any necessity. The cricket pavilion deserves mention here, for its neat- The cricket ness of style,.beauty of situation, and general usefulness to the School. It was built of ornamental brickwork in 1860, under the gratuitous superintendence of Mr. Wadmore, and has a pretty exterior, together with a very well arranged interior. It consists of a dining-hall 35 feet by 20 feet, two smaller rooms 15 feet by 10 feet each, a verandah, and a covered balcony for the scorers; and the total cost of its erection, defrayed by subscriptions from the Governours, the Master, and Old and Present Tonbridgians, aided by those then at the School, amounted to 3701. pavilion. Subjoined is a list of the Head Boys at Skinners' Day in List of each year, since 1844: 1844. P. R. Sandilands. 1845. G. F. L. Bampfield. 1847. J. Stroud. 1848. A. H. Hore. Head Boys. Scholar 1849, 1850, 1851. M. Melville. 1853. W. R. Morfill. 1855. B. H. Alford. 1858. H. St. J. Reade. 1859. R. H. Burrows. 1860. J. Greathead. 1861. A. Simpson. 1862. T. F. Burra. 1863. W. S. R. Greenhill. 1864, 1865. H. A. Richardson. 1866. W. B. Lindsell. 1867. A. W. D. Campbell. 1868, 1869. F. W. Hughes-Hughes. The Scholars from Tonbridge School are eligible to the following Fellowships and Exhibitions. A Scholarship, worth 100l. a year, at St. John's College, ships and Oxford, founded by Sir Thomas Whyte. Exhibi tions be longing to Sixteen Exhibitions of 100l. per annum each, tenable at the School. any college of either University, and payable out of the Founder's endowment. Six Exhibitions of 131. per annum each, tenable at any college of either University, founded by Sir Thomas Smith. One Scholarship at Brazenose College, Oxford, of 177.9s. 6d. per annum, founded by Mr. Henry Fisher. One Exhibition of 27. 13s. 4d. per annum, founded by Mr. Thomas Lampard. One Exhibition of 41. per annum (in default of scholars from Sevenoaks School), founded by Mr. Robert Holmedon. Two Exhibitions of 751. per annum each, tenable at Jesus College, Cambridge (in default of scholars from Sevenoaks School), founded by Lady Mary Boswell. Two Exhibitions of 61. per annum each, founded by Mr. Worrall. Two Exhibitions of 50l. are annually given by the Head and Second Masters for boys under fourteen years of age, each tenable for two years, after which time they are thrown open to all the School. List in The following School List of July 22, 1844, is the earliest School complete list of the School obtainable; and on that account 1844is, perhaps, of some interest : Examiner. Rev. S. WALDEGRAVE, Fellow of All Souls', Oxford. Masters. Rev. J. I. WELLDON, M.A., Head Master. Rev. T. BROWN, Second Master. Assistant Masters. ARTHUR WOLFE, Esq., B.A., Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge. |