A HISTORY OF SURREY 



school songs in rhyming Latin, a hymn 

 for Founder's Day at Charterhouse, and 

 a much better one for his original home at 

 Christ's Hospital. 



The attraction of the splendid hill site and 

 the spacious buildings of the new Charter- 

 house proved irresistible. The numbers flew 

 to 244 in 1873, to 333 in 1874, and to 500 in 

 1876, at which number it was long fixed, 

 though it is now 550. The buildings and 

 playing fields have grown \vith the numbers. 

 At first there was only a single big block, con- 

 taining Big School, now Library, six class- 

 rooms and three boarding-houses, which 

 reproduced in their names the old Charter- 

 house ; viz. the headmaster's, called Saunder- 

 ites, from Dr. Saunders, headmaster 1832-53 ; 

 Gown-boys, because in it originally lived the 

 foundation scholars, who in London wore 

 gowns ; and Verites, short for Oliverites, from 

 Oliver Walford, usher 1838-55. 



The only parts of the old Carthusian build- 

 ings that travelled to Charterhouse were 

 * gown-boy arch,' an eighteenth century 

 arch, which led into Scholars' Court in old 

 Charterhouse, and is covered with the names 

 of old boys ; and the stones which originally 

 formed the facing of the old Big School of 

 1803. These relics have been erected in a 

 kind of cloister at the east end of the chapel. 



There was a time when schools vied with 

 each other in the size of their ' Big Schools.' 

 So the new Charterhouse had one, but under 

 the system of smaller class-rooms this ' Big 

 School ' was found to be superfluous and con- 

 verted into a school library, and a very good 

 one. The want, however, of a large place of 

 assembly was felt and so in 1884 a hall was 

 built at the east end of the library, separated 

 from it only by a moveable screen. To out- 

 ward view it suffers from the defect of its 

 roof not being in a continuous line ; but in- 

 wardly it is a fine room. The six class-rooms 

 of 1872 have grown into twenty, eight in what 

 was called New School,' six adjacent to 

 the hall just mentioned, and six others 

 round Museum erected in 1891. 



The boarding-houses, called ' Out-houses,' 

 were erected by the various house-masters 

 at their own risk and cost, amounting, it is 

 said, to no less than ;£8o,ooo ; though now in 

 course of acquisition by the foundation. They 

 all line the heights above Sandy Lane, by 

 which the school is approached from Godalm- 



• Charterhouse, like Winchester (and perhaps 

 most schools), eschews the definite article in the 

 names of its familiar buildings and places ; a con- 

 venient practice for the writer to whom space is 

 important. 



ing, and have the names of the house-masterg 

 with the termination of -ites. Thus, Mr. 

 Girdlestone has given his name to his house 

 as Girdlestoneites ; Mr. T. E. Page, a well- 

 knovra editor of classical works, eminent in 

 the Assistant-Masters' Association, has given 

 his name to Pageites. In the case of Mr. 

 Robinson's, the name is Robinites. The 

 usual modern developments of schools have 

 taken place. Having a rifle range just below 

 its own plateau, Charterhouse has won the 

 Ashburton Shield more often than any other 

 school — in 1882 and 1883, four years in suc- 

 cession, 1889 to 1892, in 1895 and 1896 and 

 1900. In cricket the school contends with 

 Westminster and Wellington. In football 

 Charterhouse is one of the chief sources of 

 supply for Association teams at the Universi- 

 ties. It plays Westminster every year, and 

 has a very decided lead, but then it is a school 

 of 550 against one of 250. In 1904 Charter- 

 house for the first time played Winchester, 

 which ordinarily plays its own ancient game 

 (which allows no dribbling), and tied. 



DULWICH 



The history of the latest and greatest of the 

 native schools of the county, that of Dulwich 

 College, presents some singular features, not 

 least of which is the figure of the founder. 

 The successful churchman, statesman, lawyer, 

 merchant, or tradesman are all well known 

 figures in the roll of school founders. It re- 

 mained for Dulwich to find the latest imitator 

 of William of Wykeham, as the founder of a 

 college-school, in the person of a successful 

 actor. Edward Allen,' musician,' strolling 

 player, actor-manager, theatrical lessee and 

 owner, bull and bear baiter and dog fancier 

 to their Majesties Queen Elizabeth and 

 James I., churchwarden of St. Saviour's, 

 Southwark, and lord of the manors of Dul- 

 wich and of Lewisham is a unique personality 

 amidst pious founders. He was a Londoner 



» Dul^yich people have naturally adopted the 

 most antique-looking and fanciful spelling of the 

 name. But as a matter of fact the first mention of 

 his name is in the modern and simplest spelling, 

 and that is the spelling commonly used by him. 

 It was certainly so pronounced, and not ' Alleen,' 

 as some pronounce it. In a letter of his own to his 

 ' good sweett harte and loving mouse,' his wife, he 

 addresses it ' E. Alline on the Bankside.' It is 

 signed indeed Edward Alleyn. But as everybody 

 who has had any experience of ancient documents 

 knovre, the spelling of names varies not only from 

 one document to another, but from one line to an- 

 other in the same document. 



» Hist, of Dulwich College, by William Young. 

 Bumpus, London, 1889, ii. 3. 

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