DULW1CH COLLEGE 



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much of its rural charm, is known 

 as the Village, and contains the 

 buildings, much restored, of the 

 college founded by Edward Alleyn, 

 the chapel of which has served as 

 the parish church and as a chapel 

 of ease, the rest of the quadrangle 

 being offices and almshouses. Dul- 

 wich Park, 12 acres, was presented 

 to the public by the college trustees 

 in 1890. Dulwich Picture Gallery 

 is notable for its perfect quiet, as 

 well as for its artistic treasures. 



On a site occupied by the Grove 

 Hotel stood the Green Man, a noted 

 hostelry in the 18th century, in the 

 grounds of which was a well pro- 

 ducing the once famous spa- water : 



Dulwich College. The modern buildings < 

 . situated in College Road, Dulwie 



ck in the Italian style, 

 ened in 1870 



Dulwich. Toll gate in the rural part of this residential 

 London suburb 



and here, later, was Dr. Glennie's 

 Academy, which had Byron for a 

 pupil. Anciently known as Dil- 

 wyshe, Dulwich was a manor be- 

 longing to the abbey of Bermond- 

 sey, presented after the dissolution 

 to Thomas Calton, from whom it 

 was purchased by Edward Alleyn. 

 S. Stephen's Church, College Road, 

 designed by Sir Charles Barry, was 

 built in 1869, in the Early English 

 style ; S. John's, a Gothic struc- 

 ture, in E. Dulwich, dates from 

 1865. Dulwich is served by the 

 S.E. & C. and L.B. & S.C. Rlys., 

 and by electric trams from Black- 

 friars. See Alleyn, Edward ; con- 

 sult also Norwood and Dulwich, 

 Past and Present, A.M. Galer, 1890. 



Dulwich College OR THE COL- 

 LEGE OF GOD'S GIFT. English public 

 school at Dulwich, founded and 

 endowed by Edward Alleyn, the 

 actor, in 1619. The property, 

 which is land in S. London about 

 3^ m. in length by 1 \ m. in breadth, 

 increased enormously in value, and 

 in 1857 a new scheme was ap- 

 proved by Parliament and carried 

 out. This provided for two schools, 

 an upper school, Dulwich College 

 proper, and a lower school, known 

 as Alley n's School. 



The college contains four sides, 

 classical, modern, science, and en- 

 gineering. It has ample buildings, 

 laboratories, workshops, etc., and 



extensive playing fields. The new 

 buildings of red brick in the Italian 

 style were from the designs of Sir 

 Charles Barry. They are in College 

 Road, and were opened in 1870. 

 The boys number 

 about 700, most 

 of them day boys 

 from the resi- 

 dential suburbs of 

 S. London, but 

 there are four 

 boarding houses. 

 There are a num- 

 ber of scholar- 

 ships to the school, 

 and from it to the 

 universities. Over 

 3,000 Old Alleyn- 

 ians served in 

 the Great War, 

 of whom 441 were 

 killed. The decora- 

 tions won include 

 76 D.S.O.'s, and 



five V.C.'s, 

 175 M.C.'s. 



Dulwich Gallery. Collection 

 of pictures housed in a building 

 near old Dulwich College. Noel 





Joseph Desenfans (d. 1807), a 

 London dealer, left his pictures, 

 originally collected for King Stanis- 

 laus of Poland, to his friend, Sir 

 Peter F. Bourgeois, R.A. (1756- 

 1811), who in turn bequeathed 

 them to Dulwich College. Madame 

 Desenfans commissioned Sir John 

 Soare to design a building, which 

 was opened in 1814. The collection 

 of about 450 pictures is exception- 

 ally rich in examples of the Dutch 

 school; but it is noted for Wat- 

 teau's Bal Champetre, Reynolds's 

 Mrs. Siddons as the Tragic Muse 

 (whether original or replica is a 

 moot point), and Gainsborough's 

 Mrs. Sheridan and Mrs. Tickell. 

 There are also characteristic works 

 by Rembrandt, Adrian van Ostade, 

 Albert Cuyp, Gustave Dore, Murillo, 

 Velasquez, and other masters. 



Duma. Representative state 

 council of the former Russian Em- 

 pire. It formed, with the half- 

 elected and half-nominated coun- 

 cil of the empire, or second cham- 

 ber, the Russian legislature. The 

 Duma, created Aug. 6, 1905, num- 

 bered 442 members, elected in- 

 directly for five years, the elective 

 assemblies of towns or districts 

 sending delegates to a general 

 electoral assembly, which chose 

 the members of the Duma. These 

 received a guinea a day for ex- 

 penses during the session, and the 

 cost of the journey to and from 

 St. Petersburg once a year. 



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Duma. A sitting shortly before the final dissolution in 1917. Above, 

 President Rodzianko in the chair beneath a portrait of Tsar Nicholas H 



