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326 NOTES AND QUERIES, ms.vm. APRILS, 1021. The oldest Huntingdonshire school maga- A new magazine was commenced in the zine I can record is a manuscript one which summer term, 1910 -a large quarto called commenced as early as 1841. The Huntingdonian. The | St. Ires British School Mis- . I may perhaps be allowed to mention a cellany of I Literature Science and , f *_ of the ore striking features in some Art | May 1842. , ! of tbe succeeding parts. Table of contents and articles, pp. 103, ^p' 1 ,' nV^^w^S ,, '**.. i t>ne -Cjan ot oanciwicn, CIUUU.UJMU ^j. i/uc KUVCI.MJ..I.I.IS With a few illustrations. The original body. [Born London, 19 July, 1839; died contributions were bound in paper covers Hinchingbrooke, 26 June, 1916.] and lent round, and in 1843 a selection Was i N O. 2. Portrait of the Yen. Arch. Francis o Q folios . ! Gerald Vesey, LL.D. [Born 15 July, 1832; i died 18 Mar., 1915.] No. 6. Some Famous Old Boys : Sir Michael Foster. [Native. Born 8 Mar., 1836; died 29 Jan., 1907.] No. 7. Some Famous Old Boys : Oliver Crom- Selections j from the St. Ives | British School j Magazine | St. Ives: Printed by P. C. Croft. 1843, pp. 74. j well. [Native. Born 25 April, 1599; died 3 The preface states that i *^[ sheath of Mr. J. M. Heathcote, J.P., during the last two winters the Elder Boys of D.L. [Died 3 Aug., 1912, aged 78.] the British School, St. Ives (assisted by their j No. 9. View of Hinchingbrooke House and teachers and some friends), have supported a j Cromwell's Barn, St. Ives. manuscript monthly magazine that is, they have No. 10. Some Famous Old Boys: Samuel had the paper provided, taken it home, written { Pepys. [Born 23 Feb., 1633; died 26 May, 1703.] on any subject they chose, brought the pieces j View of Pepys's House, Brampton, drawn by H. to their teacher, who has sewn them together ! G. Mitchell. and then circulated it. Some of the original i No. 11. The Cromwell House Remains, by pieces were subscribed for and printed by S. Inskip Ladds, A.R.I.B.A. friends. (Signed) J. B. Spring Term : 1915. " Europe at War." J. B. was James Botterell, the first master j In progress ' J ' B " How S afce > M - A " Headmaster, of the Boys' British School, St. Ives. Thej Kimbolton Grammar School, founded A.D. school Was built in, 1839. The cost, about | 1600, published its first magazine Christmas, 3,000, Was paid by the late Potto Brown, j 1878. Its title was Kinnibantum Grammar It was opened by Mr. Botterell as teacher School Magazine, and it was printed by in April, 1839. He left St. Ives about R. C. Ibbs, at Kimbolton. 1856. Vol. i. was composed of six. parts: ,, i Christmas, 1878; Easter, Midsummer and The Huntingdon^ Grammar School- -the | Christmas> 1879 . and Easte r and Mid- third oldest endowed school in ths country, ; sum 188(X being preceded only by Carlisle and Derby, Vol - No> ?> Christmas 1880 . i n 1892 was founded in 1187 by David, Earl of; the title wag changed and reads Kinni . Huntingdon, who afterwards became ^Sl ban tum : The Magazine of Kimbolton Grammar of Scotland. Up to the year 1874 the school | Schoo i building "was undoubtedly Elizabethan'", Vol ; v< No . 19> Easter , 1892 (price six- then the discovery was made that the i e) con t a ms an article on ' The Royal Elizabethan work was only a shell which risoi ( er of Kimbolton.' An editorial note covered the original Norman edifice This gtat y it ig the old reappearing was removed and the grand old architecture in ft ' iet unambit iou S way. is again a striking feature of the town. Vo ? vL No 22 Easter? 1893> conta i ns an Here Oliver Cromwell went to school, : article on The Man of Huntingdonshire'; and Samuel Pepys before entering St. Paul s and No< 23 an account o{ the r | b uildin g of School. We may naturally regret that no the gchool in 1877 when a fregh start ^ as magazine was conducted at this most m- made and the magazine organized. The terestmg period- The first magazine was j headmaster in i 877 was W. Digram, B.Sc., not Published here until 1861, when the d he tm con ti nu esto hold thtt important St. John's Monthly, or Half -Hours at the VQS ^ OTi Grammar School, issued at least eight monthly i ^ numbers. One part contained an article, St. George's School, Brampton, was. ' The Travelling Menagerie,' by a pupil, ! founded in 1874, the headmaster being 'P. A. A.," afterwards the Rev. F. A. i the Rev. R. H. Wix. M.A. (late scholar of Allen, M.A. St. Peter's College, Cambridge).