Speech Day at Denstone College: Additional interest centred in speech day at Denstone College on Tuesday on account of the institution having completed the 25th years of its existence … … (service and prize giving) … among those invited include Lady Pinsent … The headmaster (Rev. D. Edwardes, MA.), announced that the first quarter of a century of the life of their school ended that day—- (applause) — and there had passed through their hands 2,000 boys. During the earlier: stages of the school’s history they had not awakened to the importance of keeping in touch with their old boys, and for that reason some 500 had disappeared from sight. Of the remaining 1,500 they knew where they were, what they were doing, and how they were faring. Of these 230 had become manufacturers, merchants, and traders of distinction, 160 had gone to the colonies, 140 engineers, 120 doctors, 110 v schoolmasters, 100 clergymen, 100 in the army and. navy, 100 Government officers, 100 had gone to the Universities, 60 entered banks, and 40 became lawyers. The Bishop of Rochester then distributed the prizes and was afterwards accorded a vote of thanks. Luncheon was provided in the dining-room. A cricket match between past and present Denstonians was played during the afternoon.
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GRO0254 Hennock: Emily Hetty Sabine Homfray: 1845 – 1922