The next point is, to the memorial windows of the Church, mentioned at page [96], have been added the following, in memory of the persons here named, one to each:—George Canning Backhouse, Esq.; Sir Joseph Bailey, Bart.; Arthur Stert, Esq.; Major-General J. Bucknall Estcourt, Adjutant-General to the Crimean Army; Captain the Hon. Robert Hay Drummond, Coldstream Guards, wounded in the trenches before Sebastopol; Lieutenant Hubert Greville, Coldstream Guards, killed 5th November, 1854; Brigadier-General Arthur Wellesley Torrens, K.C.B.; and Captain Viscount Chewton, Scots Fusiliers. On the whole, the list of those for whom these are memorials is one of which those connected with the Church may well be proud—monuments alike to the illustrious dead and the pious regard of their survivors.
The third and last addition is relating to the Schools. They will now, in the course of this year (1859), be at length housed in buildings fit and proper for the purpose. Since the original foundation in 1783, this has never been the case. The new buildings are of a very tasteful design, in the Early English style. They are built of white Suffolk bricks, in the form of a cross, with ornamental red brickwork and Bath-stone windows and dressings. They will have accommodation for 400 children, although the average attendance does not exceed, of boys 120, girls 70, infants 90; but occasionally the numbers are many more, as from their position (that part of town being half empty greater part of the year) the attendance is necessarily fluctuating: they are entirely supported by voluntary contributions and the school-pence. The education given is on the national system; and if we may judge from the number of young persons who, having risen to respectable positions in life, come occasionally to visit their late instructors, it is not unfruitful of good results. The estimated cost of the present edifice is £3,000. The requisite residences of the teachers will be attached thereto so soon as the subscriptions will allow. The remainder of their history is told on the parchment enclosed in the foundation-stone, thus:—“To the glory of God and the welfare of Christ’s poor in the communion of his Church in England, these parochial Schools of St. Paul’s, Wilton-place, Knightsbridge, are devoted. The first stone was laid on St. Matthias’ day, in the year of our Lord 1859, by Henry Barnett, Esq., Treasurer of the Schools; Robert Liddell, Parish Priest; Thomas Cundy, Architect; George Trollope, Builder.”
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FOOTNOTES
[0] In this Project Gutenberg eText the erratum has been applied.—DP.
[3] “Memorials of Westminster,” by Rev. Mackenzie Walcott.
[10] See “Paddington: Past and Present,” p. 22.
[11] So the name is written in the body of the charter still preserved in the British Museum in the title the name is spelt “Knyghtsbrigg.”
[14] See “Statutes of the Realm,” published by the Record Commissioners.
[19] After the death of her first husband she married John Tregonwell, Esq., but lies in the same grave with the former, in St. Margaret’s Churchyard, where a tomb may be still seen to their memory.