Excerpt from The Eton College Register, 1753-1790: Alphabetically Arranged and Edited With Biographical Notes With the period of the register thus fixed, my next step was to arrange in alphabetical order all the names contained in the lists, adding the years during which they appeared therein. This task, which was carried out for me by Mr. Murison, the Corrector of the Eton College Press, was laborious, but on the whole easy, owing to the fact that boys usually retained the same relative positions in the school yet it had ...
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Excerpt from The Eton College Register, 1753-1790: Alphabetically Arranged and Edited With Biographical Notes With the period of the register thus fixed, my next step was to arrange in alphabetical order all the names contained in the lists, adding the years during which they appeared therein. This task, which was carried out for me by Mr. Murison, the Corrector of the Eton College Press, was laborious, but on the whole easy, owing to the fact that boys usually retained the same relative positions in the school yet it had Its occasional difficulties when boys changed their names while at school, or after being oppidans became collegers, or when there were many boys Of the same name. For instance, it has proved an almost impossible task to disentangle the various boys of the name Of Smith, though I have had better fortune with the owners of the names of Brown and Jones. Accordingly, I found myself confronted with some three thousand surnames, which all needed to be identified before it was possible to give any notes on the subsequent careers of their possessors. For, out Of the three thousand, only the names Of boys with titles and of the collegers Offered any Obvious means Of identification. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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