Unfortunate ends

George Edward Lynch Cotton was the only son of Capt.Thomas D’Avenant Cotton, 7th Foot, and Mary Headley Burnley of Halifax, Nova Scotia.  He was admitted to Grant’s House in 1825 and became a King’s Scholar in 1828. He appears to…

Lost in translation

One of the biggest struggles of the project has been interpreting the two names written in unfamiliar alphabets.  The inscriptions, in Hebrew and Devanagari (an North Indian script) are together on the South Wall. The Hebrew proved fairly easy to decipher…

More Phillimores

J. G. PHILLIMORE John George Phillimore was one of several generations of the Phillimore family to be educated at Westminster School.  Admitted to Grant’s House in 1817, he was elected a King’s Scholar in 1820.  He went on to Christ Church,…