"OLD BLUE-COATS MEET”
ENGLISH SCHOOL-BOYS ANNUAL REUNION Oid Boys of the famous "Blue Coat” school founded by Edward VI., will meet in Auckland to-day. Twenty-one of the “Old Blues” nowin New Zealand had arranged to meet outside the Y.M.C.A. at 12.30 to-day. to begin the reunion week-end which has been held several times in Auckland. At 6 p.in. this evening the old scholars will be entertained at dinner by the Auckland Rotary Club, and tomorrow morning they will attend the service at St. Mark’s Church. On Monday they will hold their reunion dinner at Hotel Auckland at six o’clock. Christ’s Hospital School has a charter which dates back to 1553. It was first an orphanage rather than a school but in the course of time it became an institution for the children of London freemen, clergymen and naval officers. When the school buildings were in Newgate Street. London, two of the scholars were Charles Lamb. the essayist, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the poet. The pupils still retain the blue-coat dress.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 370, 2 June 1928, Page 11
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