Wykehamist

/ ˈwɪkəmɪst /

noun

1. a pupil or former pupil of Winchester College

Example Sentences

May I in your columns beg all Wykehamists to send to me, under care of my publisher, any information concerning their old school?

From Project Gutenberg

We of the Old Wykehamist dinner shared a room, and I slept like a top: the others tossed and moaned, and in the morning slew a vast number of intruders, many hundreds.

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Several Etonians admitted they knew him, and the Wykehamists present seized the occasion to point out the impossibility of such manners belonging to any other school.

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Thomas Browne wrote his Religio Medici in 1533-5; and in it suggested some familiar verses of the "Evening Hymn" of his brother Wykehamist Bishop Ken.

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Hence a Wykehamist took his degree with no examination but that of his own college, both under the Laudian Statute and after the great statute of 1800, which set up the modern system of examinations.

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