Thomas Nettlefield. Edward Chapman. After several adjournments on account of a claim of relationship, on the part of another child, on which opinion of counsel was taken, and the claim finally rejected. 5. John Tutton. 21. William Howard. Edmund Lamb. Henry Hart, by votes.* In the year 1806 several vestries were held for the consideration and discussion of a contemplated new act of Parliament for the regulation of Christ's Hospital, which was passed, the vestry assenting to it. And the first child elected under it was, Thomas Barnes. Martha Messenger, by votes. Emma Feaney. Walter Thomas Perry. William Searle, by votes. Joseph White, by votes. The vestry ordered, January 5, 1821, that a list of elections should be made and entered on the minutes. This order was never carried out. Walter Watson. Caroline Rogers. 1821. Feb. 1824. April 29. John Tapps, by votes. George Dobson, by votes. * I have added the words, "by votes," when the election was contested either by a division in vestry or by a subsequent poll of the parish. 1825. June 23. July 28. 1826. March 23. 1827. April 26. 1828. July I. Oct. 23. William Ayliffe, by votes. Henry Harris, by votes. James Croxon Lupton, by votes. In this year the opinion of counsel was taken as to the proper mode of conducting elections, and the following points were affirmed by W. E. Taunton : I. Proceedings to be in accordance with 58 George III. 1289. Aug. 13. John Charles Litchfield, by votes. William Begent, by votes. Charles Edward Pendry, by votes. George William Needham Lamb, by votes. Mary Ann Curtis, by votes. In the year 1836 a committee of vestry was appointed to ascertain whether the number of children might be increased in proportion to the increased value of the property. Robert Ealy Fisher, by votes. April 19. Edward Harbor, merely proposed and seconded. May 26. 10. A boy named George Morton was on the first occasion legally elected by votes, but, on appeal to Christ's Hospital, Edward Harbor was substituted, although none of the forms of election had been complied with. A committee of vestry, appointed to investigate his alleged relationship to the founders, traced it to his grandfather and then admitted the earlier steps of his pedigree, on the authority of the Hospital; which, Mr. Master observes was the more remarkable because Mr. Trollope, the clerk of the Governors, in a letter to him, dated October 25, 1862, says, "I have no other documentary evidence relating to the claim of the Harbor family than copies of the minutes of vestry above referred to. John Harbor, merely proposed and seconded. Thomas Hamblen, by votes. William Jackson, by votes. Grace Elizabeth Missen, proposed and seconded. Walter Turner, proposed and seconded. William Pope. The vestry was adjourned to give time for production of evidence in support of Pope's claim. Thomas Beale was elected by show of hands and no poll was demanded for Pope. Nevertheless, on reference to Christ's Hospital, the vestry was directed to cancel Beale's election, which they did, and Pope was admitted. Thomas Pope, proposed and seconded. Anne Joyce Allnut, by votes. Henry Dart, by votes. George James Chamberlain, by votes. Alfred George Greenhill. Three other candidates were duly proposed and seconded, but Greenhill was returned without opposition; although nothing was known of his parents, who were nonresident. A remonstrance was made to the Hospital without effect. April 17. Elizabeth Pope. A boy named Woolford was duly proposed and seconded, and Greenhill was at first rejected by the vestry on account of his parents non-residence, but the Hospital insisted upon his claim being admitted. William Edward Pankhurst. Richard Court, by votes. Thomas William Chesswas. James Henry Freshwater, by votes. A boy named Henry James Harrison, claiming on the score of consanguinity, proposed and seconded. Show of hands against him. No poll demanded. No evidence presented to the vestry. Opinion of Sir Roundell Palmer, Solicitor General, taken by the vestry, decisive upon three points, viz. : I. The power of determining evidence is in the vestry. III. Documentary evidence may be required. 1862. July 17. Gertrude Eleanor Redknap, by votes. 1863. Jan. 22. Eliza Harbor. 1864. May The vestry memorialized the Governors to apply to the Court of Chancery for a scheme to regulate future elections, and to relieve them from the difficulty of deciding upon the amount of evidence to be required of claimants on the score of consanguinity, and the Governors acceded to their request. It was determined that this candidate who possessed relationship should be elected, but that no acknowledgment of preference on that ground should be made. 3. George Jonathan Pope. Thomas William Whitaker. Elected as parish children although claims of consanguinity were put in by both. 1866. Nov. 15. Mathew Henry Harbor. A scheme as to the claims of children claiming to be admitted to Christ's Hospital as Founders' kin, confirmed by an order of Vice Chancellor Sir Richard Malins, establishes the following points : I. The mode in which claims are to be determined. 2. If two claimants, majority to decide. II. The general character and extent of the evidence by 3. By legal evidence of pedigree or reputation. 5. Or with a common ancestor of a claimant or a 6. Relationship with ancestor or common ancestor may be disputed. 7. Evidence to be by declaration. III. Regulations for the election and presentation of claimants. 8. Ten days' notice of vacancy and of meeting to be given on the church door. 9. Statement of claim and evidence to be left three 10. Notice of objection under Rule 6 to be given at 12. Claimants to be children of parishioners and Edward Albert Filby, by votes. |