Calendar: 1850-1851 Page 34

30 ANNUAL REPORT 1800 continues to receive frequent assurances from parents of their satisfaction with the course of instruction pursued in the School and its results as exhibited in the well-doing of their sons in the various callings of life It is also most encou- raging fact that in many instances Pupils from the same families have in continual succession been confided to Dr Major's guidance from the first opening of the Institution The Rev Hodgson after seventeen years' faithful ser- vice having resigned his office of Master in the School the vacancy thus occasioned has been filled up by the appoint- ment of the Rev George Rust Since the last Annual Meeting the Council have been called to deplore the decease of two of the earliest members of their own body-viz the Dean of St Paul's the Lord Bishop of Llandaff and the Rev George Shepherd -as well as to accept the resignation of Newell Connop Esq The Council take this opportunity of recording the high sense which they entertain of the kindness which the late Bishop of Llandaff uniformly manifested in the discharge of his duties as Member of the Council and of the great benefits which the College derived from his constant attention to its concerns especially in all matters relating to education in which his sound scholarship and long academical experience gave so much weight to his judgment The same words apply also vith equal force to the loss sustained by the College in the death of Dr Shepherd he was one of the most regular attendants at all meetings of the Council and of Committees and he ever evinced deep lively and enlightened interest in the welfare of the Institution The state of Mr Newell Connop's health ever since his election upon the Council in 1847 has altogether deprived the College of the benefit of his valuable services The number of Honorary Fellows of the College has been increased by the election in the early part of the year of James Ε Rogers Esq who was formerly distinguished Student of this College and who subsequently obtained high