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Henry Chichele, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1437. Co-founder All Souls'.

William de Waynflete, Bishop of Win- chester, 1458. Magdalen, Oxon. Lord High Chancellor.

John Alcock, Bishop of Ely, 1497. Jesus, Cantab.

William Smyth, Bishop of Lincoln, 1509. Co-founder Brasenose. President of Wales, and Chancellor of Oxford University.

Kichard Foxe, Bishop of Winchester, 1516. Corpus Christi, Oxon. Lord Privy Seal.

Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, Bishop of Lin- coln, Archbishop of York, 1524. Cardinal College, now Christ Church. Baronets.

Sir Thomas Cookes, 1714. His bequest founded Worcester College. Of Bentley Pauncefort, co. Worcester.

Sir George Downing, 1800. His bequest founded Downing College. Of Gamlingay Park, co. Cambridge.

Knights.

Sir Richard Sutton, 1509. Co-founder Brase- nose.

Sir Thomas Pope, 1555. Trinity, Oxon. Treasurer of Court of Augmentations.

Sir Thomas Whyte, 1555. St. John Baptist, Oxon. Twice Lord Mayor of London.

Sir Walter Mildmay, 1584. Emmanuel- Chancellor of the Exchequer. Gentlemen.

Nicholas Wadham, 1610. Co-founder Wad - ham College. Of Merifield, co. Somerset.

Thomas Charles Baring, M.P., 1874. Re- founded Hertford College, at cost of 100,000^. Sometime scholar of Wadham and Fellow of B.N.C., M.P. for South Essex 1874-85, for City of London 1887-92, author of 'Pindar in English Rhyme,' &c., son of Charles Baring, Bishop of Durham, and a benefactor to Harrow School. Priests.

William of Durham, Rector of Weremouth, 1249. His bequest eventually founded Uni- versity College, Oxon.

Adam de Brome, Rector of St. Mary's, Oxford, 1324. Co-founder Oriel.

Robert de Eglesfield, the Queen's chaplain, 1340. Co-founder Queen's, Oxon.

Edmund Gonville, Rector of Terrington and Rushworth, co. Norfolk, 1347. Gonville Hall.

Andrew Doket, Rector of St. Botolph's, Cambridge, 1446. St. Bernard's, now Queens' College, Cantab.

Dr. Robert Wodelarke, third Provost of King's, 1475. St. Catherine's,

Dr. Hugo Price, Treasurer of St. David's, 571. Co-founder Jesus, Oxon.

Richard Wightwick, Rector of East Ilsley, Berks, 1624. Co-founder Pembroke, Oxon.

Doctor of Medicine.

John Caius, President of College of Physi- cians, 1557. Refounded Gonville Hall as Gonville and Caius College.

Wealthy Citizen.

Thomas Tesdale (clothier to Queen Eliza- beth's army), 1610. His bequest eventually helped to found Pembroke, Oxon.

A. R. BAYLEY. ( To be continued. )

A "TRUE BLUE CLUB." ALTHOUGH party colours have not their old vogue, those interested in the subject should note the continued existence, and in an apparently flourishing state, of the True Blue Club at Gloucester. This was founded in 1790, to celebrate in perpetuity a party victory won in the previous year, and thus recorded in a Gloucester newspaper of 9 Feb., 1789 :

" On Wednesday last, the long contested Election of a Representative for this City was terminated by the expiration of the fifteen days, appointed by Act of Parliament^ for the return of the writ. At the casting up or the poll, the Sheriff" declared the numbers :

For John Pitt 837

H. Howard 836

Majority for Pitt ... 1"

Pitt was the " True Blue " and Howard the " Yellow " candidate ; and since 1790 the True Blue Club has annually held a dinner on 4 February (when that date has not fallen on a Sunday, the preceding or succeeding day being then chosen), and the toast of " True Blue " is always drunk out of a silver loving- cup which has some historical associations. The institution was reorganized in the course of last year, and one of the rules then passed ran as follows :

" That this Club shall be called the True Blue Club, and its objects shall be to promote the inter- ests of the Conservative cause generally, and to keep alive the 'glorious 4th of February,' and annually on that day celebrate the victory of John Pitt."

There is the more interest in this record because the "True Blues " of Gloucester are first to be found associated with George Sel- wyn. When that singular politician stood for re-election for the city at the dissolution of 1780, with "Sir Andr. H." as a colleague, he wrote to Lord Carlisle from Matson, his seat :

"Sept. 11, Monday morning, 7 o'clock There

is a party here called the True Blues, who lead Sir