Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1910 — BROTHERS OF CHARTERHOUSE [ARTICLE]

BROTHERS OF CHARTERHOUSE

Inmates of Famous Scliool—Tercr'*tenary to Be Celebrated. The tercentenary of the Cha. jerhouse school is shortly to be commemorated, and graduates all over the world, to the number of 6,000, have been asked to send in their Views on the subject. The governors of Charterhouse have included many of the famous men of their day. Beaconsfield, Gladstone, Lord John Russell, Palmerston, Pitt and Walpole have been some prime ministers who have been connected with the school. Gen. Monk was a governor, as was Lord Anson, the circumnavigator, though perhaps the most famous governor of all was Oliver Cromwell. Today there are only sixty-five brothers or pensioners at Charterhouse, those brothers immortalized by Thackeray. These pensioners are gentlemen who have lost their incomes, and they are provided for by the bequest left by a notable soldier of Queen Elizabeth, Thomas Sutton, master of ordnance in the North. The money is derived from land in Cambridgeshire, Wiltshire and Essex, but owing to the great depreciar tion in land that has taken place of late the money suffices only for sixtyfive pensioners instead of eighty. The pensioners are called brothers, and they have their rooms, food and attendance free, and are given >175 a year in addition. The great qualification is that the applicant must have been a gentleman in the full sense of the ward, says the New York Sun’s London correspondent The foundation is eligible to gentlemen who have reached the age of 60, and are either unmarried or are widowers. Maddison Morton, who wrote “Box and Cox,”- was a brother, and it is recorded a former Lord Mayor of London came to accept the benefits of Sutton’s bequest.