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Winchester College in fiction. Henry Esmond, Old Wykehamist, protagonist of a book by William Makepeace Thackeray, being knighted by Beatrix, with whom he is in love, but fails to marry. Painting by Augustus Leopold Egg, 1857. Winchester College appears in fiction both as a school and as fictional Old Wykehamists, people who had been to the school.
Old Wykehamists are former pupils of Winchester College, so called in memory of the school's founder, William of Wykeham. He was Bishop of Winchester and Lord Chancellor of England. He used the wealth these positions gave him to establish both the school and a university college, New College, Oxford, in 1382; both of them were set up to provide an education for 70 scholars. Winchester College ...
Six Old Wykehamists have won the Victoria Cross (VC), four in the First World War, 1914–18 (of whom three were killed in action) and two prior to 1914. Also in the Second World War one Old Wykehamist won the George Cross in military circumstances and another Old Wykehamist won the George Medal in military circumstances.
Former pupils of Winchester College are known as Old Wykehamists, in memory of the school s founder, William of Wykeham, and as such are able to include OW in any list of post nominal letters. Their ranks include the following individuals,…
The Old Wykehamist cricket team was a first-class cricket team made up of former students of Winchester College in Winchester, England. History. The team played one match with first-class status in July 1817 against the Old Etonians at Lord's, winning the match by 72 runs. The modern day Old Wykehamist Cricket Club was founded in 1874.
W. William Ward (cricketer, born 1787) Charles Warren (MP) Angus Watson (British Army officer) Categories: Players in English domestic cricket by team. Cricket in Hampshire. Hidden category: CatAutoTOC generates no TOC.
Priests of his cult have built up secret subterranean mausoleums to access the Great Old One's body, and please the slumbering god by giving cattle as sacrificial victims. Aphoom-Zhah. The Cold Flame, Lord of the Pole. Appears much like Cthugha, but grey and cold. Apocolothoth. The Moon God.
