When William Murray travelled from Scotland to Westminster on a highland pony at age fourteen, never to return to the country of his birth, it may have seemed obvious that he would go on to live a rather interesting and, in many respects, unconventional life. Born to on March 2nd 1705 to David Murray, 5th Viscount Stormont and his wife…
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The Fuller family by Bethany Duck, Archives and Records Management Assistant
Three members of the Fuller family attended Westminster School in the middle of the 18th Century – Henry (1724-c.1773), Peeke (c.1732-1798), and Charles Beckford (1739-1825). They were all born in Jamaica, where their father, Thomas Fuller, owned a total of 6,292 acres of land and 376 enslaved people, all of which was left to his three sons as tenants in…
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Robert Dalzell by Bethany Duck, Archives and Records Management Assistant
It likely comes as no surprise that the history of Westminster School is dominated by white men. For the majority of our history there has been limited diversity amongst our pupils. It is difficult to single out an individual as the first to break the long line of racial homogeneity but Robert Dalzell perhaps stands as a contender. In The…
