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A SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF KING'S COLLEGE 25 most effectual manner for the two great objects of Education the Communication of General Knowledge and Specific Preparation for Particular Professions The benefit of attending any course of Lectures in the higher branches to be allowed to all who may be disposed to avail themselves of it under such regulations as may be prescribed The Charter was granted on August 14th 1829 The government of the College was vested in Council consisting of Official Governors Life Governors and Members elected by the Proprietors The Official Governors were the Lord Chancellor the Archbishop of York the Bishop of London the Lord Chief Justice the Speaker of the House of Commons the Home Secretary the Lord Mayor of London and the Deans of St Paul's and Westminster The Visitor was to be the Archbishop of Canterbury The first Life Governors were the Dukes of Rutland Northumberland and Wei- lington the Marquesses of Bute Camden and Bristol the Earl Brownlow and Baron Bexley The elected Members of Council were Hon Robert Henley Eden Sir Launcelot Shadwell Sir Nicholas Tindal Sir John Nicholl Sir Robert Inglis Bt Sir Charles Price Bt Sir Henry Halford Bt Sir Astley Cooper Bt Sir George Staunton Sir John Richard- son Archdeacon George Owen Cambridge Rev George D'Oyly Rev George Shepherd Rev Christopher Benson Rev John Lonsdale William Astill Alderman John Atkins William Manning Rt Hon Henry Hobhouse Benjamin Collins Brodie William Cotton Edward Hawke Locker John Drummond William Sotheby Among other officers of King's College at the time of its foundation were Archbishop Howley Visitor Alderman William Thompson Treasurer William Ward Auditor and James Heywood Markland Solicitor Its present site was granted to the College by the Government which reserved to itself the right of re-entry if the terms of the original grant were not complied with Mr Robert Smirke who designed also amongst other buildings the British Museum was appointed Architect and before the close of 1831 the chief portions of the building were available for use This grant afforded the Government convenient opportunity for getting the river frontage of Somerset House completed at its eastern end one of the conditions on which the site was granted being that in build- ing the College the original design for that building should be carried out The work of the College began on October 8th 1831 with service in the College Chapel and Sermon by the Bishop of London Bishop Blomfield on The Combination of Religious Instruction with Intellectual Culture in which the purpose for which the College has been founded is thus described Our desire is to erect the shrine of Science and Literature within the precincts of the Sanctuary to lay the foundations of public usefulness and