Public school dinners.

Englishman’s Overland Mail. Thursday 06 January 1898

OLD CLIFTONIANS.

The annual Old Cliftonian Dinner was hold on Wednesday night at No. 100 Clive Street under the Chairmanship of Mr. T. D. Barrington. There were present; Messrs. W. J. Bird 1864-67, H. D. Cartwright 1867-68, W. C. F. Field 1867-69. S. Finney 1868-71, S. J. Douglas 1868-72, C. N. Barnard 1868-77, S. Willcock 1868-73, F. Woodhouse 1872-78, F. B. Bryant 1873-76, E. A. Woodhouse 1873-78, M. C. Fitzgibbon 1873-76, H. F. T. Maguire 1873-76, E. Brandreth 1876-83, H. Bateson 1877-83, C. F. Egerton, 1877-81, J. Lang 1877-86, J. C. Shorrock 1878-83, E. P. Chapman 1879-86, T. A. Harrison 1879-82, B. O. Fyffe 1879-82, R. K. Magor 1879-86, W. A. Boulnois 1880-81, J. H. Bullen 1880-83, G. Shorrook 1880-85, F. N. Schiller 1881-84, A. C. Patterson 1886-90, W. R. Craik 1887-89, and H. P. M. Rae 1888-93. After speaking of the school’s records during the past year and of the loss sustained by the death of the Rev. T. E. Brown, one of the original masters, the chairman referred to the number of Old Cliftonians now serving at the front, no less than five of whom have been mentioned in recent despatches. The usual toasts having boon drunk an adjournment was mode for a quiet game of “snookers,” the party breaking up about midnight.