William John Butler, pictured left, has his name carved in the top left corner of the Gateway. Admitted first to Grant’s House in 1830 he became a King’s Scholar in 1832 and rowed against Eton on 12 May 1836. He…
There are several instances of the same name featuring twice on the School Gateway. In many cases the inscription appears to have taken place at a different time, so we can perhaps assume that the action of having one’s name…
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…
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…
Old Westminsters Michael Garnett and William Stevens recently visited the school to tell us the story behind the Gateway’s most recent inscriptions.
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,…