31 JULY 1915, Page 13

[To TOE EDITOR OF TILE "SPECTATOR,"] SIR, —In connexion with the

letter of " W. H." in your last issue regarding Count Wratislas, it may be of interest to add that the Rugby School Register (1875 edition) contains the following entries. In the list of Assistant-Masters appointed by Dr. Thomas James, Head-Master, 1778-1794, there appears the name of "Count Wratislaw, 1784"; and among the boys entering in 1784 is " Frederick Wratislavia [sic], son of Mark Wratislavia, French Master." A second son, John Theodore, entered in 1790; a third, Albert Joseph, in 1793; a fourth, William Ferdinand, in 1794; and the fifth, George, in 1798. In the case of the last three, however, the patronymic appears Anglicized into Wratislaw. The late Mr. Matthew Holbeche Bloxam remembered Mr. Wratislaw's keeping a boarding- house in connexion with the school in 1813.—I am, Sir, &c.,