Illustration of the Upper School cleared for Chambers (the daily meeting of the headmaster and his assistants). At the end the headmaster's room is seen through the open door on the right. In the centre is Keate's desk, above it the bust of Gladstone. On the left, near the curtain, the visitor is looking at Shelley's name cut in the panelling. The panelling all round the room is covered with the names of past Etonians. Speeches are recited here on the 4th of June. Watercolour by Edith Danvers Brinton from 'Eton' by Christopher Reynolds Stone, published in 1909. Eton College is a public school in Berkshire, UK. It was founded in 1440 by Henry VI under the name Kynge's College of Our Ladye of Eton besyde Windesore. |