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BUCKINGHAMSHIRE

Consort, and on the south side of the chancel is another
to Mrs. Forbes, a grea t benefactress to the p a ris h :
there are 728 sittin gs. The reg ister contains entries of
baptisms from the year 1594; m arriages and burials
from 1603 and of banns from T769 to 1808; there is also
a register of persons touched for the K in g ’s E vil from
1686-1688. The livin g is a vicarage w ith the ch apelry of
Boveney annexed, net yearly value ¿500, w ith residence,
in the gift of r.he Provost and Fellows of Eton College,
and held since 1905 by th e Rev. Lew is H erbert Evans
M-A. of Pem broke College, Oxford. Her late M ajesty
Queen V ictoria in 1875 gave assent to a schem e prepared
by the Ecclesiastical C om m issioners for E ngland in
pursuance of the P ublic Schools A ct, 1868, for relieving
the Provost of Eton from the spiritual charge of the
parish of E ton and for c o n stitu tin g the same parish
a distinct vicarage, in th e g ift of the Provost and
Fellows of Eton, and providing an endowm ent for the
same. The freehold of the church and chapel of ease at
Eton W ick are vested in the vicar. Th e cem etery, w ith
mortuary chapel a t Cotton H all, consists of about 1$
acres and was consecrated in 1846, and is vested in the
vicar. The B ridge T ru st House, at th e top of High
street, erected in 1891, is a building of red brick with
stone dressings in th e Tudor style and contains the
board room and offices of the D istrict Council.
The
Eton Fire B rigade consists of a captain and 17 men,
and has steam , chem ical and m anual engines, three
fire escapes, one am bulance, hose cart and 2,800 feet
of hose; the new station was b uilt b y th e Urban
District Council in 1904; there are also two sub-stations.
The Godolphin alm shouses are for 10 widows. The
Eton Poor E state provides about £200 yearly for appren­
ticing boys and m aintaining a parish nurse ; B aldw in’s
Bridge T ru st has a yearly incom e of £350, the surplus,
after necessary expenditure on the bridge and property,
is devoted to various charities in the parish, the trustees
have also the m anagem ent of the Pote and Benwell
legacies for d istrib u tin g bread am ong th e p o o r; the
Porny endowment of about £140 yearly is applied to the
support of the E lem entary School. Col. W illiam Stew art
is lord of the m anor. The Provost and Fellows of Eton
College are the p rincipal landowners.
The area of the c iv il parish and Urban D istrict is 289
acres of land and 10 of w a te r; rateable value, £28,985;
and the population in 1911 was 3,192, v iz : North
Ward, 1,644 and South W ard, 1,548. Th e population
of the ecclesiastical p arish in 1911 was 3,645.
By Local G overnm ent Board O rder No. 39,609,
amended by L ocal G overnm ent Board O rder No. 42,617,
which came into operation Oct. 1st, 1900, parts of the
civil parishes of U pton-cum -Chalvey and Eton W ick
were added to the civil parish and Urban D istrict of
Eton.
Verger and Deputy Clerk, A. S. Ablett.
Sexton, George Paice.
ETON W IC K , to the west, form erly a ham let of
Eton, is a civil parish, form ed in 1894, under the pro­
visions of the “ L o ca l G overnm ent A ct, 1894,” from the
rural part of Eton civ il parish. T h e ch u rch of St.
John the Baptist, at E ton W ick , a ch ap el of ease to the
parish church, was consecrated in 1869 and is a stru c­
ture of red brick w ith stone facings in. the G othic
style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch, and a
turret- conitaining one b e ll; the ch urch will seat nearly
200 persons. H ere is also a Prim itive M ethodist chapel.
The Cottage Hospital, situated here, was b u ilt in 1883 by
the late Local Board and contains 14 beds.The Eton
urban D istrict Infectious Diseases H ospital is a build>ng of brick, with three beds. Th e Eton C ollege Sana­
torium, also at E ton W ick, is a spacious buildin g of
red brick, erected in 1843, and enlarged in 1896, and
has sixteen wards for the reception of patients be­
longing to the school.
The area is 614 acres of land and 14 of w a te r ; rate­
able value, £2,820; th e population in 1911 was 522.
BO VE N E Y is a lib erty in the parish of E ton, now
ecclesiastically annexed to Eton by O rder in Council,
ated May 26th, 1911, and is 2 m iles w est from Eton,
he chapel of ease, an ancient chalk b uildin g, consistof chancel and nave, was restored in 1892-3 by
rs. Fitzadam , of Bartlett», Poyle, and affords 60
sittings. The area is 458 acres of land and 25 of
w a s s ra^ea^ e value, £ 2 ,2 13 ; the population in 191T
ETON COLLEGE.
i^ as
k.een celebrated for its great college,
nnHu
u “ *int«foed its pre-em inence am ongst the
ic schools of E ngland since its foundation b y Henry
I . I I 4 1 October, 1440, as “ The K in g ’s College of Our
} of Eton beside W in d so r” ; the Parochial church

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of Eton was declared on the 13th of the sam e m onth t o
be a Collegiate church and these form alities w ere ra ti­
fied by Pope E ugenius IV . in January. 1441 ; G eorge II.
visited the school, A u g u st 11, 1747, and G eorge I II. for
the first tim e in Septem ber, 1762; W illiam IV. was very
popular a t Eton and in May, 1834. invited the whole
school to witness the launching of a m iniature frigate on
V irgin ia W a te r; in 1837 he attended the Eton and W est­
m inster boat r a c e ; the buildings are m ostly of red b ric k
with stone dressings and consist of two large quadrangles
com m unicating by a tower g ate w ay; the chapel occupy­
in g the south side of th e front quadrangle, in the c e n tr e
of which is a statu e of H enry V I . ; the cloisters
surround the second quadrangle, adjacent to which
are the provost’s lodge and the hall, which, in
1858, was m unificently restored by the Rev. J. W ild er;
three large fire-places of early date, discovered behind
the 16th cen tu ry panelling, w ere again b rought into
use, a new high pitched roof constructed, and a fine
Perpendicular window inserted in the w est wall, filled
w ith stained glass representing scenes in the h istory of
the college ; richly carved oak panelling, b earing the arm s
of successive provosts, was placed im m ediately below
this window and at the ea st end a carved screen was
erected, and the p ortraits of m any em inent m en educated
a t Eton adorn the w a lls ; a block of buildings containing
fifteen class-room s, m usic room, observatory &c. was
erected in 1861, at the angle of th e roads leading to
S lou gh and Eton common, at a cost exceeding £10,000,
from designs b y Mr. H. W o o d y e r; the gun standing in
the yard in front was taken a t Sebastopol in 18^5 and
presented by Gen. Peel, then S ecretary of W a r ; a Science
School,w ith room s for lectu res and experim ents, has been
b u ilt near the R acket cou rts erected in 1866, and in
1870 a second group of F ives courts was b u ilt in the
T im brails. In 1868 an A c t was passed au th orizin g certain
Com m issioners to draw up new constitutions for Eton
and other p ub lic schools, in pursuance of which a
‘ G overning B ody,” to consist either of 9, 10 or t i
m em bers, was appointed for Eton in 1870, and in 1872
the whole body of statu tes drawn up b y H enry V I. was
rep ea led ; the G overning Body now consists of the
provost and ten governors, and the foundation comprises
the provost, vice-provost and bursar, the head m aster, the
lower m aster, at least 70 scholars, and not m ore than
two chaplains or conducts ; the vice-provost and b ursar
are elected annually bv th e governors, and there are
also six la y c le rk s and 16 c h o riste rs ; the tota l n u m b e r of
boys is upwards of 1,000. A ttach ed to the college are
seven poor alm swom en. appointed by the Drovost, who
receive such em olum ents as m ay be assigned them bv
the govern in g body. T he endowm ent of the foundation is
said to be over £20,000 a year, and th e Provost, and
governors are the patrons of 45 livin gs.
Foundation
scholars are educated and lodged in college 'd u rin g school
tim e at the expense of the c o lle g e ; there are about 12
vacancies y e a r ly ; th e school expenses are under £20 a
year, other expenses being optional. The scholarships
and exhibitions tenable after leaving are the New castle
scholarship of £50 for th ree years, tenable a t eith er
U niversity, two C ham berlayne exhibitions o f £ 6 0 for
four years, the Reynolds exhibition of £ 59 for four years
at E xeter College, Oxford, tw o D avies exhibitions of £ 1 0
for four years, the B errym an exhibition of £43 for four
years, the Bryant exhibition of £ 4 7 for four years, two
post-m asterships at Merton College, O xford/ for four
years, and some others, besides four or five scholar­
ships yearly at K in g ’s College. C am bridge, open to
Foundationers and Oppidans a lik e; the election to these
takes place annually in .J u ly; the Rous scholarship at
Pem broke College, O xford ,’ and the Ln tim er Neville
scholarship at M agdalene College. C am bridge ; th ere are
also num erous prizes. Oppidans p ay an entrance fe e of
£ 2 1 and an annual fee of 30 guineas, the house p ay­
ment is £ 115 ic s . and the^ p rivate classical tuition
fee 20 guineas. T he C ollege L ib ra ry contains a la rg e and
valuable collection of ab ou t 23,000 volum es of books
and M SS. The B oys’ L ib ra ry contains n early 6,000
volum es, and there is a m useum in K e ate’s lane contam in g zoological and geological collections. In 1908
His late M ajesty K in g E dw ard V II. opened a m em orial
hall and lib ra ry, erected in m em ory o f those Etonians
who lost th eir lives in the war in South A fr ic a ; the
buildin g is used as a reference lib ra ry and fo r concerts,
lectures &c. and will seat about 500. Th e College
gardens and p layin g fields, situate along the, banks of
the ^ riv er, are of considerable extent.
The chapel,
dedicated to SS. M ary and N icholas, resem bles in
general outline th at cf K in g ’s College, C am bridge, and
stands on the site of the old parish church, which,
on the foundation of the college, was enlarged and
adapted to the requirem ents of the collegiate bodv.