Identifier: pocketguidetowes00aspi (find matches)
Title: The pocket guide to the West Indies, British Guiana, British Honduras, the Bermudas, the Spanish Main, and the Panama canal
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Aspinall, Algernon E. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Chicago, New York, Rand, McNally & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Leeward Islands, who died in 1710, and bequeathedtwo sugar estates, Consetts and Codringtons —now called College and Society —which consisted of763 acres, three windmills with the necessary building forthe cultivation of sugar, 315 negroes, and 100 head of cattle,to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, in trustfor the maintenance of a convenient number of professorsand scholars, all of them to be under the vows of poverty,chastity, and obedience ; who shall be obliged to studyand practise Physic and Chirurgery, as well as Divinity ;that by the apparent usefulness of the former to all man-kind they may both endear themselves to the people andhave the better opportunities of doing good to mens souls,whilst they are taking care of their bodies. At that timethe plantations were computed to yield a net income of£2000 clear of all charges. The erection of the collegebuildings was begun in 1716, and the masonry was finishedin 1721 ; but it was many years before the college was
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1/5 G - « BARBADOS 107 completed, owing to a debt due to the Society from theestates, which was not cleared off until 1738. The stoneused, which is a conglomerate of limestone, was taken fromthe hill behind the college, and the timber was brought, atGovernment expense, in ships of the Royal Navy fromTobago and St. Vincent. The college was first opened as agrammar school on September 9, 1745. Hurricanes andother disasters impoverished the estates, and it was notuntil 1834 that it was placed on a proper academicfooting by Bishop Coleridge. In 1875 it was affiliated toDurham. Successive Principals have been : Rev. J. H. i Pinder, 1830 ; Rev. Richard Rawle, 1846-1864 ; Rev. J W. T. Webb, 1864-1884 ; Rev. A. Caldecott, 1884-1886 ;Bishop Rawle, 1888-1889; the Rev. (now Archdeacon) T.H. Bindley, 1890-1909; and Rev. A. H. Anstey. In1898 Codrington College passed through a serious crisis, therevenue from the sugar estates being insufficient for its main-tenance, but with the help of the West

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