Westminster School

MJY composed and dated a poem apparently unpublished until 1795, The Natal Day. To a Westminster Scholar, at Windsor, during the Autumn Recess.

The title-page of the first quotes from Francis Bacon (Knowledge is Power) and from the mother of Sir William Jones (Read and you will know). It portrays the widow Mrs...

Not all responses were positive: according to Hester Lynch Thrale , this work of HM 's caused boys at the elite Westminster School to burn her in effigy.

Mary Wells (later LS ) played for her own benefit in Small Talk; or The Westminster Boy, a farce by her lover Edward Topham ; the theatre was closed by a riot.

Wells played the role of a (male) student at Westminster School . Actual Westminster schoolboys took exception to this, packed the theatre, and ended the performance by rioting at her first entry.

He was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge . He later studied at Oxford University for a degree in medicine. Among writing in many genres, his pastorals and odes proved particularly...

JD attended Westminster School , whose headmaster at this date was the legendary Richard Busby . When, years later, Dryden published a translation of the third satire of the Latin poet Persius , he reminisced...

He attended Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford . His studies branched out in various directions from the conventional curriculum, notably into natural philosophy or what is now called the sciences.

This novel opens on the low-bred Wheeler family (ex-servants in charge of a Westminster School boarding-house), and on a scene of noise, quarrelling, and confusion. The thoroughly nasty twenty-year-old John Wheeler comes home to seek...