The Sedbergh School Register, 1546 - 1895. (R. Jackson, Leeds.) — Ryger Lupton,
Provost of Eton (d. 1540) founded a school in his native town of Scdbergh, and joined with it a chantry. The chantry of course was seized temp. Edward VI, but the school had friends,—not illy, a Sir Anthony Denny. In the end it got more than the value of its dissolved chantry and free of obligation. An interesting preface gives us notes of the virtues and failures, merits and demerits, of a succession of head-masters. The patronage was in the hands of St. John's College, Cambridge, an arrangement that did not work with invariable sir3cess. After a period of decay, the constitutIon was restored, and a Governing Body appointed, which has done its duty well,— " active and self-sacrificing," the editor calls them. Of the Sed- bergh scholars no register earlier than 1820 exists. But hap- pily St. John's, which had almost a monopoly of Sedberghians, has been in the habit of recording the " school " of its alumni. The result is a very respectable list.
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