Part 3

1806 THOMAS SMART HUGHES, St. John’s College, Cambridge, _Browne Medal_, _Latin Ode_. 1807 THOMAS SMART HUGHES, St. John’s College, Cambridge, _Browne Medal_, _Greek Ode_. JOHN TURNER, St. John’s College, Cambridge, _Second Bachelor’s Prize_. 1809 THOMAS SMART HUGHES, St. John’s College, Cambridge, _First Bachelor’s Prize_. 1810 THOMAS SMART HUGHES, St. John’s College, Cambridge, _First Bachelor’s Prize_. WILLIAM HENRY PARRY, St. John’s College, Cambridge, _Third Bachelor’s Prize_. 1811 ROBERT WILSON EVANS, Trinity College, Cambridge, _Second Medallist_. 1812 MARMADUKE LAWSON, St. John’s College, Cambridge, _Browne Medal_, _Latin Ode_. ROBERT WILSON EVANS, Trinity College, Cambridge, _First Bachelor’s Prize_. 1813 WILLIAM HENRY PARRY, St. John’s College, Cambridge, _Norrisian Prize_. ROBERT WILSON EVANS, Trinity College, Cambridge, _First Bachelor’s Prize_. 1814 MARMADUKE LAWSON, St. John’s College, Cambridge, _Pitt University Scholar_, (the first elected on that foundation.) 1816 MARMADUKE LAWSON, Magdalen College, Cambridge, _Medallist_. RICHARD P. THURSFIELD, St. John’s College, Cambridge, _Second Bell’s Scholar_. 1817 REV. T. SMART HUGHES, Fellow of Edmund College, Cambridge, and Proctor of the University, _The Seatonian Prize_. 1819 SPENCER WILDE, St. John’s College, Cambridge, _Recorded Equal to Bell’s Scholar_. 1821 EDWARD BAINES, Christ College, Cambridge, _Second Bell’s Scholar_. 1822 T. WILLIAMS, Oriel College, Oxford, _First Class_, _Lit. Hum._ 1823 JOHN PRICE, St. John’s College, Cambridge, _Recorded Equal to Bell’s Scholar_. BENJAMIN HALL KENNEDY, St. John’s College, Cambridge, _The Porson Prize_. BENJAMIN HALL KENNEDY, St. John’s College, Cambridge, _Adjudged the Browne Medal_, _Latin Ode_. 1824 BENJAMIN HALL KENNEDY, St. John’s College, Cambridge, _Pitt University Scholar_. BENJAMIN HALL KENNEDY, St. John’s College, Cambridge, _Browne Medal_, _Greek Ode_. BENJAMIN HALL KENNEDY, St. John’s College, Cambridge, _Browne Medal_, _Latin Ode_. BENJAMIN HALL KENNEDY, St. John’s College, Cambridge, _The Porson Prize_. 1825 THOMAS WILLIAMSON PEILE, Trinity College, Cambridge, _Davies University Scholar_. JOHN HODGSON, Trinity College, Cambridge, _The Parson Prize_. BENJAMIN HALL KENNEDY, St. John’s College, Cambridge, _Browne’s Medal_, _Epigram_. 1826 JOHN HODGSON, Trinity College, Cambridge, _Second Medallist_. HORATIO HILDYARD, Peterhouse, Cambridge, _First Bell’s Scholar_. THOMAS BUTLER, St. John’s College, Cambridge, _Recorded Equal to Bell’s Scholar_. BENJAMIN HALL KENNEDY, St. John’s College, Cambridge, _The Porson Prize_. 1827 BENJAMIN HALL KENNEDY, St. John’s College, Cambridge, _Senior Medallist_. GEORGE H. JOHNSON, Queen’s College, Oxford, _Ireland University Scholar_. THOMAS WILLIAMSON PEILE, Trinity College, Cambridge, _Second Undergraduate’s Latin Essay_. 1828 CHARLES KENNEDY, Trinity College, Cambridge, _First Bell’s Scholar_. THOMAS WILLIAMSON PEILE, Trinity College, Cambridge, _Second Medallist_. EDWARD MASSIE, Wadham College, Oxford, _Ireland University Scholar_. BENJAMIN HALL KENNEDY, St. John’s College, Cambridge, _First Bachelor’s Prize_. GEORGE H. JOHNSON, Queen’s College, Oxford, _Double First Class_. 1829 CHARLES BORRETT, Magdalen College, Oxford, _Ireland University Scholar_. JOHN THOMAS, Wadham College, Oxford, _Craven University Scholar_. CHARLES KENNEDY, Trinity College, Cambridge, _Browne Medal_, _Greek Ode_. CHARLES KENNEDY, Trinity College, Cambridge, _The Porson Prize_. HERBERT JOHNSON, Wadham College, Oxford, _First Class_, _Lit. Hum._ 1830 CHARLES KENNEDY, Trinity College, Cambridge, _Pitt University Scholar_. PETER S. PAYNE, Balliol College, Oxford, _Ireland University Scholar_. JAMES HILDYARD, Christ College, Cambridge, _Browne Medal_, _Greek Ode_. CHARLES KENNEDY, Trinity College, Cambridge, _Browne Medal_, _Greek Ode_. ROBERT SCOTT, Christ Church, Oxford, _Craven University Scholar_. CHARLES KENNEDY, Trinity College, Cambridge, _The Porson Prize_. 1831 JAMES HILDYARD, Christ College, Cambridge, _Battie University Scholar_. THOMAS BRANCKER, Wadham College, Oxford, _elected Ireland University Scholar_, while yet in the Sixth Form of Shrewsbury School. GEORGE KENNEDY, St. John’s College, Cambridge, _First Bell’s Scholar_. GEORGE H. JOHNSON, Queen’s College, Oxford, _Mathematical University Scholar_, (the first elected on that foundation.) JAMES HILDYARD, Christ College, Cambridge, _Browne Medal_, _Greek Ode_. JAMES HILDYARD, Christ College, Cambridge, _Browne Medal_, _Latin Ode_. JAMES HILDYARD, Christ College, Cambridge, _Browne Medal_, _Epigrams_. GEORGE KENNEDY, St. John’s College, Cambridge, _The Porson Prize_. PETER S. PAYNE, Balliol College, Oxford, _First Class_, _Lit. Hum._ 1832 GEORGE KENNEDY, St. John’s College, Cambridge, _Davies University Scholar_. HORATIO HILDYARD, Peterhouse, Cambridge, _Second Bachelor’s Prize_. JOHN THOMAS, Trinity College, Oxford, _Latin Verse Prize_. JAMES HILDYARD, Christ College, Cambridge, _Browne Medal_, _Greek Ode_. JAMES HILDYARD, Christ College, Cambridge, _Browne Medal_, _Latin Ode_. JAMES HILDYARD, Christ College, Cambridge, _Member’s Prize_, _Latin Essay_. 1833 ROBERT SCOTT, Christ Church, Oxford, _Ireland University Scholar_. JAMES HILDYARD, Christ College, Cambridge, _Second Medallist_. GEORGE H. MARSH, St. John’s College, Cambridge, _Bell’s Scholar_. JOHN GIBBONS LONGUEVILLE, Wadham College, Oxford, _First Class_, _Lit. Hum._ ROBERT SCOTT, Student of Christ Church, Oxford, _First Class_, _Lit. Hum._ THOMAS F. HENNEY, Pembroke College, Oxford, _First Class_, _Lit. Hum._ JAMES HILDYARD, Christ College, Cambridge, _First Bachelor’s Prize_. WILLIAM FLETCHER, Trinity College, Oxford, _First Class_, _Lit. Hum._ 1834 ALEXANDER G. HILDYARD, Pembroke College, Cambridge, _Second Bell’s Scholar_. ROBERT SCOTT, Student of Christ Church, Oxford, _Bachelor’s Latin Essay_. 1835 WILLIAM GILSON HUMPHRY, Trinity College, Cambridge, _Pitt University Scholar_. GEORGE AUGUSTUS MAY, Magdalen College, Cambridge, _Bell’s Scholar_. EDWARD J. EDWARDS, Balliol College, Oxford, _Kennicott Hebrew Scholar_. 1836 WILLIAM DICKENSON, Trinity College, Oxford, _Latin Verse Prize_. W. G. HUMPHRY, Trinity College, Cambridge, _Latin Essay_. W. G. HUMPHRY, Trinity College, Cambridge, _Second Medallist_. 1837 HENRY HOLDEN, Balliol College, Oxford, _First Class_, _Lit. Hum._ 1838 JAMES FRASER, Scholar of Lincoln College, Oxford, _Recorded Second to Ireland University Scholar_, with the words “_proxime accesssit_.” REV. R. SCOTT, M.A. Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, _Denyer’s Theological Essay_. ROBERT MIDDLETON DUKES, Scholar of Lincoln College, Oxford, _First Class_, _Lit. Hum._ THOMAS EVANS, St. John’s College, Cambridge, _The Porson Prize_. WILLIAM DICKENSON, Trinity College, Oxford, _Latin Essay_. 1839 JAMES FRASER, Lincoln College, Oxford, _Ireland University Scholar_. EDWARD M. COPE, Scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge, _The Porson Prize_. JAMES FRASER, Lincoln College, Oxford, _First Class_, _Lit. Hum._ 1840 EDWARD BATHER, Merton College, Oxford, _First Class_, _Lit. Hum._ JOHN BATHER, St. John’s College, Cambridge, _Reexamined with Craven’s University Scholar_. 1841 HUGH A. JOHNSTON MUNRO, Trinity College, Cambridge, _Lord Craven’s University Scholar_. GEORGE DRUCE, St. Peter’s College, Cambridge, _The Porson Prize_. GEORGE NUGEE, Trinity College, Cambridge, _Latin Essay_. 1842 EDWIN H. GIFFORD, St. John’s College, Cambridge, _Pitt University Scholar_. HUGH A. J. MUNRO, Trinity College, Cambridge, _Senior Chancellor’s Medallist_. GEORGE DRUCE, St. Peter’s College, Cambridge, _The Porson Prize_. WILLIAM GEORGE CLARK, Trinity College, Cambridge, _Browne Medal_, _Epigrams_. THOMAS RAMSBOTHAM, Christ College, Cambridge, _Latin Essay_. W. T. BASIL JONES, Trinity College, Oxford, _Ireland University Scholar_. 1843 E. H. GIFFORD, St. John’s College, Cambridge, _Senior Chancellor’s Medallist_. GEORGE DRUCE, St. Peter’s College, Cambridge, _Junior Chancellor’s Medallist_. REV. M. BRIGHT, Magdalen College, Cambridge, _Tyrwhitt’s Hebrew Scholar_. W. G. CLARK, Trinity College, Cambridge, _Browne Medal_, _Greek Ode_. W. G. CLARE, Trinity College, Cambridge, _The Porson Prize_. G. NUGEE, B.A. Trinity College, Cambridge, _Latin Essay_. 1844 W. G. CLARK, Trinity College, Cambridge, _Second Chancellor’s Medallist_. GEORGE OSBORNE MORGAN, Balliol College, Oxford, _Craven University Scholar_, while yet in the Sixth Form of Shrewsbury School. J. G. FUSSELL, Trinity College, Cambridge, _Browne Medal_, _Epigrams_. J. G. FUSSELL, Trinity College, Cambridge, _Latin Essay_. 1845 JAMES RIDDELL, Balliol College, Oxford, _First Class_, _Lit. Hum._ H. DE WINTON, Trinity College, Cambridge, _Browne Medal_, _Greek Ode_. GEORGE NUGEE, Trinity College, Cambridge, _Sir Peregrine Maitland’s Prize for Christian Essay_. 1846 GEORGE OSBORNE MORGAN, Balliol College, Oxford, _Sir R. Newdigate’s Prize for English Poem_. 1847 GEORGE OSBORNE MORGAN, Worcester College, Oxford, _First Class_, _Lit. Hum._ 1848 H. C. TAYLER, Trinity College, Cambridge, _Browne Medal_, _Epigrams_. 1849 WILLIAM OWEN, St. John’s College, Cambridge, _Recorded Second to Craven University Scholar_. WILLIAM OWEN, St. John’s College, Cambridge, _The Marquis Camden’s Gold Medal for Latin Poem_. FRANCIS KEWLEY, St. John’s College, Cambridge, _The Porson Prize_. 1850 T. CLAYTON, Trinity College, Oxford, _Hertford University Scholar_. WILLIAM OWEN, St. John’s College, Cambridge, _The Porson Prize_. P. PERRING, Trinity College, Cambridge, _Browne’s Medal_, _Greek Ode_. G. O. MORGAN, Worcester College, Oxford, _English Essay_. G. B. MORLEY, St. John’s College, Cambridge, _The Porson Prize_. G. O. MORGAN, University College, Oxford, _Eldon Law Scholarship_. H. C. A. TAYLER, Trinity College, Cambridge, _Latin Essay_. 1852 S. H. BURBURY, St. John’s College, Cambridge, _The Porson Prize_. D. TRINDER, Exeter College, Oxford, _Mrs. Denyer’s Theological Essay_. J. L. BALFOUR, Queen’s College, Oxford, _Ellerton’s Theological Essay_. HENRY PARKER, Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, _Latin Essay_. W. INGE, Worcester College, Oxford, _First Glass Moderations_. 1853 EDWARD L. BROWN, Trinity College, Cambridge, _First Bell’s Scholar_. S. H. BURBURY, St. John’s College, Cambridge, _Craven University Scholar_. S. H. BURBURY, St. John’s College, Cambridge, _The Porson Prize_. W. INGE, Worcester College, Oxford, _First Class_, _Lit. Hum._ A. B. ROCKE, Christ Church, Oxford, _First Class_, _Moderations_. 1855 E. L. BROWN, Trinity College, Cambridge, _The Porson Prize_.

Cambridge First Class Classics.

1824 Edward Baines, Christ College 4th 1825 John Price, St. John’s College 3rd John Hodgson, Trinity College 5th Frederick E. Gretton, St. John’s 7th College 1827 BENJAMIN HALL KENNEDY, St. John’s SENIOR. College George A. Butterton, St. John’s College 3rd 1828 T. W. Peile, Trinity College 2nd 1829 Horatio S. Hildyard, Peterhouse 5th Robert Smith, St. John’s College 6th Thomas Butler, St. John’s College 7th 1831 CHARLES KENNEDY, Trinity College SENIOR. Charles J. Johnstone, Caius College 4th 1832 Richard Shilleto, Trinity College 2nd Edward Broadhurst, Magdalen College 7th 1833 James Hildyard, Christ College 2nd 1834 GEORGE F. KENNEDY, St. John’s College SENIOR. Edward Warter, Magdalen College 4th 1835 George F. Harris, Trinity College 3rd John Cooper, Trinity College 7th 1836 Geo. Hy. Marsh, St. John’s College 2nd William H. Bateson, St. John’s College 3rd Richard Edward Turner, Trinity College 6th 1837 W. GILSON HUMPHRY, Trinity College SENIOR. 1838 George A. C. May, Magdalen College 3rd Henry Thompson, St. John’s College 7th William Parkinson, St. John’s College 8th 1839 Augustus W. Hopper, Trinity College 6th 1840 FRANCIS FRANCE, St. John’s College SENIOR ÆQUAL. 1841 EDWARD M. COPE, Trinity College SENIOR. John Bather, St. John’s College 2nd Henry Thring, Magdalen College 3rd 1842 Hugh A. J. Munro, Trinity College 2nd Francis Morse, St. John’s College 7th 1843 GEORGE DRUCE, St. Peter’s College SENIORS ÆQUAL.

EDWIN H. GIFFORD, St. John’s Coll. 1844 William G. Clark, Trinity College 2nd 1846 H. De Winton, Trinity College 3rd 1848 J. E. B. Mayor, St. John’s College 3rd 1849 H. C. A. Tayler, Trinity College 4th 1851 J. W. Taylor, St. Peter’s College 12th 1852 ROBERT BURN, Trinity College SENIOR ÆQUAL. Philip Perring, Trinity College 4th W. Chandless, Trinity College 5th Arthur White, Magdalen College 16th 1854 S. H. Burbury, St. John’s College 2nd G. M. Campbell, St. John’s College 7th H. Day, St. John’s College 9th

Cambridge Wranglers.

1808 W. H. Parry, St. John’s College 16th 1809 John Evans, Clare Hall 6th W. R. Gilby, Trinity College 7th 1811 R. W. Evans, Trinity College 7th 1824 W. Crawley, Magdalen College 27th 1826 John Hodgson, Trinity College 16th 1827 George A. Butterton, St. John’s College 8th 1828 T. W. Peile, Trinity College 18th 1830 CHARLES WHITLEY, St. John’s College SENIOR. Edward Yardley, Magdalen College 40th 1834 Henry Trentham, St. John’s College 13th 1835 Francis Procter, Catharine Hall 30th John Cooper, Trinity College 33rd 1836 W. Twiss Turner, Trinity College 15th Thomas E. H. Headlam, Trinity College 17th 1837 Alexander J. Ellis, Trinity College 5th William Gilson Humphry, Trinity College 27th 1838 H. J. Hodgson, Trinity College 24th G. A. C. May, Magdalen College 36th 1840 Henry Cadogan Rothery, St. John’s College 19th 1843 Edwin H. Gifford, St. John’s College 15th 1851 J. S. Clarke, St. John’s College 11th 1854 B. W. Horne, St. John’s College 4th H. Day, St. John’s College 5th S. H. Burbury, St. John’s College 15th

The structure is large, lofty, and of freestone, and surrounds two sides of a small quadrangle. The portion immediately fronting the street was erected in 1630, and contains on the first and second floors dwelling houses for the assistant masters. The upper story is entirely occupied by

THE PRINCIPAL SCHOOL-ROOM,

[Picture: Principal School-Room]

and was originally divided into three apartments by wooden carved partitions, now removed. The centre of this front is pierced by a gateway, adorned on each side with a Corinthian column, supporting statues of a scholar and graduate, bare-headed, and in the costume of the times. Over the arch is a sentence in Greek from Isocrates, importing that a love of literature is essential to the formation of a scholar. Above are the arms of Charles I. The windows, with the exception of a large pointed one in the style of the 14th century, at the south-end of the principal school-room, are all of the square form of the Elizabethan age. The walls are crowned with a singular and clumsy battlement of curled leaves and pinnacles.

Situated at right angles to this is the remaining wing of the edifice, originally erected in 1595, comprising the chapel and library, with the tower containing the staircases in the angle.

The Chapel, in which prayers are read by the headmaster every morning, occupies the ground floor, and is divided from the ante-chapel, by an oak screen, carved in the grotesque manner prevalent in the days of Elizabeth. The pulpit and BIBLE-STAND are in a similar style. The ceiling is adorned with carved foliated bosses, interspersed with the arms of the founders, and of the first and late head-masters.

[Picture: Bible Stand in the Chapel]

Above the chapel and of the same size, is

THE LIBRARY,

[Picture: The Library]

containing a very valuable and extensive collection of MSS. and books. This part was lately rebuilt and repaired at a considerable expense. Two large pointed windows, filled with mullioned tracery, afford light to this venerable apartment; in the northern one of which are the arms of Edward VI.; Queen Elizabeth; St. John’s College, Cambridge; the See of Lichfield and Coventry impaling Cornwallis; and those of the town: and in the southern one, those of the four principal benefactors, with appropriate inscriptions in Latin. Richly foliated bosses, the arms of the founders, visitors, and thirteen first trustees, decorate the ceiling. Around the walls are portraits of Henry VIII. half-length; his son Edward VI. when a boy of ten or twelve; an Admiral, full length, in the dress of the time of Charles II.; five of the former head-masters, and the late head-master, Bishop Butler, by Kirkby.

By the late scheme made by the Court of Chancery, (1853) a sum not exceeding £70 yearly, is to be applied to the purchase and repairs of Books, Mathematical, Philosophical and other instruments and articles for instruction.

We would venture to suggest the propriety of persons educated at Shrewsbury School, or natives of the town and county, presenting to the Library copies of any works which they may publish. Such a practice would at once form an interesting memento of their connection with the venerable institution, and add to the valuable and useful stores already accumulated on its shelves, which in former years have been so greatly enriched by similar benefactions.

The Library also contains three sepulchral inscribed stones, and various other Roman antiquities from Wroxeter, and a small collection of fossils and natural curiosities.

A court, enclosed by a stone wall, intervenes between the street and the schools. At the back of the school-buildings are two spacious houses for the head and second masters, most delightfully situated, and commanding extensive views of several portions of the town, the river and Welsh bridge, and the rich woods of Berwick and Almond Park. On this side are extensive play-grounds for the use of the school.

Passing down Castle Gates, we have on our right

THE INDEPENDENT MEETING-HOUSE,

and see immediately before us

A BRIDGE

of cast-iron of 64 feet span, which carries over the street five lines of rails of the Chester Railway.

On the right

THE STATION

of the United Railway Companies opens to view.

This striking and handsome building is in a late perpendicular English style, and presents a frontage of upwards of 150 feet in length, and two stories in height, with a large square tower nearly 70 feet high, in which is one of the principal entrances, through a large four-centered arched doorway, above which is an oriel window projecting from a richly ornamented base, and a circular opening, within which is an excellent eight-day clock, with the latest improvements, manufactured by Messrs. Joyce and Son, of Whitchurch, in this county. A richly carved battlement, with octagonal turrets at the corners, of considerable elevation, terminates the summit.

[Picture: Railway station]

On either side of the tower extends a large wing, divided into four equal spaces by projecting turrets, corresponding with those of the tower, surmounted with ornamental caps. These spaces are subdivided again horizontally above the heads of the upper and lower windows by enriched string-courses. Above the cornice a rich embrasured parapet runs the whole length of the edifice. The ridge of the roof is finished with an ornamental cast-iron crest. The windows are divided by stone transoms and mullions, with projecting drip-stones, terminating in corbel heads.

The ground floor is appropriated to booking offices, ladies’ and gentlemen’s waiting rooms, and a large refreshment room. Beneath the ground-floor are a large kitchen, cellars, &c. A board-room and offices for the various officers and clerks, occupy the upper floor.