Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter iii the removal of charterhouse school By R. W. Macan, D.litt., Master of University College, Oxford "He holds no parley with unmanly fears: Where duty bids he confidently steers."--Wordsworth. Appointment of Wm. Haig Brown as Headmaster of Charterhouse--Meeting with W. M. Thackeray--Degree of ll.D. at Cambridge--Previous history of Charterhouse--Condition of the School in 1863--Removal of the School proposed and effected--The site at Godalming--The new premises: local breach with the Past--Last years in London--The new Constitution of the School: legal breach with the Past--Gownboys, Governors and Governing Body--The Headmaster's opinion--First years at Godalming: a happy band of pilgrims--The ten years (1864 to 1874) an historical period of exceptional interest. On Thursday afternoon, November 12th, 1863, the Governors of Charterhouse met to elect a " Schoolmaster" in the room of the Reverend Richard Elwyn, M.A., who had resigned his post, after a five years' tenure, in consequence of a temporary failure of health. Mr. Elwyn was a Carthusian from the crown of his head to the soles of his feet--the distance was not enormous. Educated at the School under Dr. Saunders, sometime Dean of Peterborough, he had returned from Cambridge as "Senior Classic" to be "Usher" or Second Master at Charterhouse in 1855, and in due course succeeded to the "Schoolmastership" on the premature death of Dr. Elder. Mr. Elwyn was destined, after the restoration of his health, and a fruitful career at York and elsewhere, to end his days in Charterhouse, like his great successor, the subject of this memoir, in the dignified post of " Master." But the future ever keeps its own secrets, and something like consternation invaded Carthusian circles in 1863...