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Harrow School. 1. Interior of the Speech Room. 2. Fourth Form Room, 1611, on the panels of which many scholars, 

 afterwards famous, have carved their names. 3. The Chapel. 4. The Old School, built in 1611 



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the negotiations that preceded 

 the passing of the Reform Bill in 

 1832. 



Dudley, the 2nd earl ( 1 798-1 882 ), 

 was M.P. from 

 1819-47, and 

 ended his 

 official life as 

 lord privy seal 

 under Lord 

 Palmerston. 

 The 3rd earl 

 was a follower 

 of Disraeli, 

 and interested 

 in education. 

 He was vice- 

 president o f 

 the council, 1874-78, and president 

 of the board of trade, 1878-80, while 

 still Viscount San don. John Her- 

 bert Dudley, the 5th earl, who 

 succeeded in 1900, was a partner in 

 the bank of Coutts and married 

 a daughter of W. H. Smith, M.P. 

 His eldest son is called Viscount 

 Sandon, and his chief seat is San- 

 don Hall, Stafford. The village of 

 Harrowby is in Lincolnshire. 



Harrow School. English public 

 school. Founded by a yeoman 

 named John Lyon, and granted a 

 charter in 1571, 

 it was opened in 

 1611 at Harrow, 

 Middlesex, and 

 was long a school 

 for the poor 

 children there. 

 After a time, how- 

 ever, the master 

 began to take 

 pupils from other 

 parishes, a privilege sanctioned by 



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the courts of law in 1809, and this, 

 together with the increasing value 

 of the property left by Lyon, gave 

 it its present position. Towards 

 the end of the 18th century it 

 developed into a leading public 

 school, the chief rival of Eton and 

 Winchester. Most of the buildings 

 are modern, these including chapel, 

 library, and speech room, but the 

 original room still remains. 



The school numbers about 600 

 boys. There are eleven school 

 houses, and a few private boarding 

 houses. It has an upper and a 

 lower school, but is not divided 

 into sides ; there are forms and 

 divisions, the latter including 

 army and navy. There are a num- 

 ber of entrance scholarships and 

 some leaving scholarships to the 

 universities. Since the time of 

 John Farmer, Harrow has been 

 famous for its music. Among its 

 headmasters have been Christopher 

 Wordsworth, George Butler, C. J. 

 Vaughan, H. M. Butler, and J. E. C. 

 Welldon. Its pupils have included 

 Byron, Peel, and Palmerston. 



During the Great War, 2,917 

 members of the Harrow School 

 Officers' Training Corps joined the 

 forces, of whom 619 were killed 

 and 690 wounded. Eight won the 

 V.C., and among other honours 

 were two bars to D.S.O., 2 ; one 

 bar to D.S.O., 16 ; D.S.O., 215 ; 

 M.C., 252 ; D.F.C., 2 ; D.S.C., 3. 

 Among distinguished generals from 

 the school were Sir H. Smith- 

 Dorrien, Sir H. A. Lawrence, and 

 Lord Home. There are war 

 memorial buildings in honour of 

 the fallen. See Byron. 



Bibliography. Harrow School, 

 B. Pitcairn, 1870; Harrow School 

 and its Surroundings, P. M. Thorn- 

 ton, 1885; Harrow School, E. W. 

 Howson and G. T. Warner, 1898: 

 Harrow, A. Fox, 1911; The Harrow 

 Life of Henry Montagu Butler, E. 

 Graham, 1920. 



Harsova. Town of Rumania. 

 It is situated on the Danube in the 

 district known as the Dobruja, 

 15 m. S. of Braila, and 60 m. N.E. 

 of Silistria. It came into promi- 

 nence in the Great War during 

 Mackensen's invasion of the Do- 

 bruja in the autumn of 1916. Its 

 importance was due to the fact 

 that here was one of the few good 

 possible crossings of the Danube. 

 See Rumania, Conquest of. 



Hart, ALBERT BUSHNELL (b. 

 1854). American historian. He 

 was born at Clarksville, Penn- 

 sylvania, July 1, 1854, and edu- 

 cated at Harvard and Freiburg, 

 Germany. Appointed instructor of 

 American history at Harvard, 1883, 

 he occupied various professorial 

 posts at that university for over 

 thirty years. His historical works 

 include Introduction to the Study 

 of Federal Government, 1890 ; 

 Epoch Maps, 1891 ; Formation of 

 the Union, 1892 ; Foundations of 

 American Foreign Policy, 1901 ; 

 National Ideals Historically Traced, 

 1907 ; American War Manual, 1918. 



Hart, SIR ROBERT (1835-1911). 

 Civil administrator in China. Born 

 in co. Armagh, and educated at 

 Queen's College, Belfast, he entered 

 the British consular service in 

 China, 1854. Invited by the vice- 

 roy of Canton to undertake the 



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