The Sun.
London, England, 1854-01-12 00:00:00

COLLEGE.

THE WE.

Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to grant a
Charter of Incorporation for the Wellington College.
The subject is one of great interest to the army in par-
ticular, and to the public in general, and as a means of
promoting the interests of the institution by making its
object known to the world, we readily give insertion to
the official document :
g‘ VICTORIA, by the Grace of God of the -United King-
dom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen, Defender
of the Faith.
" To all whom these presents shall come greeting :
"Whereas, divers of our subjects and others being
desirous of testifying their respect for the memory of
Arthur Duke of Wellington, Knight of the Most Noble
Order of the Garter, a Field Marshal in our Army, de-
ceased, subscribed certain sums of money which now
amount to upwards of 100,0001., and which were to be
devoted to the foundation of a College to be called the
Wellington College for the Education of the Children of
deceased Military Officers, who from time to time. shall
have borne commissions either in our Royal army, or in
the army of the company called the East India Com-
pany, and such monies so subscribed are now in the cus-
tody or control of the parties hereinafter named, who
have besought us to grant to them this our Royal
Charter, for the purpose of incorporating them : Now,
know ye, that we deeming it to be the duty of our Royal
Office, and being always desirous as far as in us
lies to encourage the education and godly nur-
ture of the children of such officers as aforesaid, do, by
virtue of our Royal prerogative and of our especial
grace, certain knowledge, and mere motion, by these
presents, for us, to our heirs and successors, will, grant,
declare, and constitute our most dearly-beloved Consort,
his Royal Highness Francis Albert Augustus, Charles
Emanuel, Duke of Saxony, Prince of Saxe Coburg and
Gotha, night of our Most Noble order of the Garter,
and Field Marshal in our Army ; our dearly-beloved
cousin,
George William Frederick Charles Duke of
Cambridge, Knight of our Most Noble Order of the
Garter, Major-General in our Army ; the Most Reve-
rend Father in God our right-trusty and right-entirely-
beloved councillor, John Bird, Lord Archbishop of Can-
terbury, Primate of all England and Metropolitan ; our
right-trusty and right-entirely-beloved cousin and
councillor, Walter Francis, Duke of Buccleuch and
Queensbary, Knight of our Most Noble Order of the
Garter ; our right-trusty and right-entirely-beloved
cousin and councillor, Algernon, Duke of Northum-
berland, Knight of our Most Noble. Order of the
Garter, a Rear Admiral in our Navy ; our right-trusty
and right-entirely-beloved cousin and councillor,
Arthur Richard, Duke of Wellington, our Master
of the Horse ; our right-trusty and entirely-beloved
cousin and councillor, Henry, Marquis of Lansdowne,
Knight of our Most Noble Order of the Garter ; our
right-trusty and entirely-beloved cousin and councillor
James Brownlow Williato, Marquis of Salisbury, Knight .
of our Most Noble Order of the Garter ; our right-
trusty and entirely-beloved cousin ar d councillor Henry
William, Marquis of Anglesey, Knight of our Most.
Noble Order of the Garter, a Field-Marshal in our
Army ; our right-trusty and entirely-beloved cousin and.
councillor, James Andrew, Marquis of Dalhousie,
Knight of our Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of
• the Thistle ; our right-trusty and right-well-beloved
cousin and councillor, Edward Geoffrey, Earl of Derby ;
our right trusty and right-well-beloved cousin and coun-
cillor, George, Earl of Aberdeen, Knight of our Most
Ancient and Most. Noble Order of the Thistle, and First
Lord Commissioner for executing the office of Lord
High Treasurer of our United Kingdom of Great tri-
. fain and Ireland ; our right-trusty and right-well-be-
loved cousin, Edward, Earl of Ellenborongh, KniOt
Grand Cross of our Most Honourable Order Of the
Bath ; our right-trusty and right-well-beloved Cousin
and councillor, Francis, Earl of Ellesmere.; our right-
trusty and well-beloved councillor, John Russell, cola-
monly called Lord John Russell ; our right-trusty and
well-beloved cousin and councillor, Henry, Viscount
Hardinge, Knight Grand Cross of our Most flonotirable
Order of the-. Bath, General Commanding in Chief of
our Army ; our right-trusty and well-beloved. coiisin,
Hugh, Viscount Gough, Knight Grand CrosS Of our
Most Honourable Order of the !lath, a Liefiteriant:
. . General in our Army ; the Right Rev. Father, in Gal'
our-'right-trusty and well beloved councillor, Cliarlei
• James. Bishop of London ; our right-trusty and
" beloved John, Lord Seaton, Knight Grand Cross Of our
Most Honourable Order of the Bath, a Lieut.-General'
in our Army ; our right-trusty and well-beloved.coun;
cillor, Fitz Roy James Henry, Lord Raglan, Knight
Grand Cross of our Most Flononrable Order Of the
Bath, a Lieut.-General in. our Army, the Master`Gerleral-
of our Ordnance ; our right-trusty and welt-belOied
councillors, Sidney Herbert, our Secretary at War
Sir. James Robert George Graham, Bart., First Lord
Commissioner for executing the' office of Lord High
Admiral of our United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland ; and Spencer Horatio Walpole ; our trusty and
well-beloved Sirilo ward Douglas, Bart., Knight Grand
Cross of our Most Honourable Order of the Bath,- a
Lieut.-General in our Army ; Sir Edmund Antrobirs,
Bart. ;• Sir James Weir Roo-g, Bart., Chairman of the
Court of Directors of the 'East India Company ; Sir
Alexander Woodford, Knight Grand Cross of our Most
Honourable Order of the Bath ; Henry Richard Cox;•
Esq., Peter Richard Hoare, Esq., and George Robert
Gleig, Clerk, Master of Arts, Chaplain General of our
Forces, and all others the persons who may hereafter from
time to time be appointed to be governors of the said
college as hereinafter mentioned, one body politic and
corporate, by the name of 'The Wellington College by
which name such body politic shall have perpetual succes-
sion, and shall have a common seal, and shall by the
same name sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded,
and answer and be answered unto, in every court-of us,
our heirs and successors.
"And we do hereby will and ordain, that by the same
name they and their successors for ever shall be able and
capable in law to purchase, take, and hold to them and
their successors, not only all such lands, buildings, here-
ditaments, and possessions as may be from time to
time exclusively used and occupied for the immediate
purposes of the said college, and also any other lands,
buildings, hereditaments, and possessions whatsoever,
situate within our United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, not exceeding the annual value of 15,0001. ;
such annual value to be calculated and ascertained at
the period of purchasing, taking, or acquiring the same
(so as such hereditaments shall be vested in such corpo-
ration as by law is required) ; and that they and their
. successors shall be able and capable in law to grant, de-
mise, alien, or otherwise dispose of all or any of the-pro-
perty, real or personal, belonging to the said college,
and also to do all other matters incidental or appertain
ing to a body corporate. • •-•
" And we do hereby declare, that the corporation is
established for the providing out of the funds at their
disposal as aforesaid, or which may be hereafter
scribed or given to the said corporation, a college fir
the education and bringing up, maintaining, and cloth-
ing of the children of deceased officers who may have
borne commissions either in our royal army or in the
army of the said East India Company, and none others
and such children shall be eligible as candidates for ad-
mission to the said college (without regard to their reli-
gious persuasion or creed), provided that such children
shall have been born in legal wedlock, and in the esti-
mation of the governors for the time being of the said
college shall be na circumstances of need. And provided
that not more than three children of the same officer
shall be admitted at the said college as scholars at 'the
same time.
" And we further will and ordain, that such Children,'
or any of them, may be admitted either without pay-
ment or subject to such annual or other payments as
the governors may from time to time determine, and
may remain during such time as the governors shall
from time to time appoint.
"And we reserve to ourselves; our heirs and- Sucees-.
son, to be the visitor of the said college, as often as to
us, our heirs and successors, shall seem meet, with
authority to do all those things which pertain to visitors
in similar cases.
"And we further will and ordain, that the governors
for the time being the said college, shall have- the-en-
tire management and superintendence of the affairs,
concerns, and property of the said college and shall have
power from time to time to make and alter any bye laws
and regulitions, so as the same bye laws be not repug-
nant to the laws of our realm, or to the general objects
or special provisions of this charter, touching the build-
ing of the said college and its government, and the ad-
mission of candidates to be received as scholars therein,
and the expulsion of such scholars, and in general thneli-.
ing all matters whatsoever
sregardinge the administration the said college ; and allu
regula-
tions as aforesaid, when dul h bye laws and y
made and reduced into
writing, and after the common seal of the college shall
have been affixed thereto, shall be binding upon all per-
sons members thereof, and all
.3ffi cers, servants and
others connected therewith in all cases nnlo 'ded
for by this-charter, it shall be lawful for the' saidlbrl
uthe
vernors to act in such manner (not repe
go-
laws of our realm or the objects and provisions of thiS
charter) as shall to them seem best calculated to pro-
mote the purposes for which the said collegeleas is.
atituted.

" And we do hereby declare, that the said governors
shall annually or otherwise, as they may think fit, elect
a president and a vice-president ; and the president if
present, or in the absence the vice-president, shall pre-
side at all meetings of the governors, and if the presi-
dent and vice-president shall be absent, then a chairman
shall be elected by the meeting.
" And we further will and ordain, that all questions
which shall come before the said governors shall be de-
cided by a majority of the governors present at the
meeting, due notice having been previously given to all
the governors of the meeting at which such question
shall shall be brought forward, and that five governors shall
constitute a quorum, and the chairman at every meeting
shall have a vote, and in case of an equality of votes a
second or casting vote.
" And we further will and ordain, that within six
months from the date of this our Royal Charter, the go-
vernors of the said college shall hold a meeting, and that
at such meeting, and also at the subsequent meetings
to be held, as the said governors shall determine, they
shall proceed to do all matters requisite to the founda-
tion and erection of the said college, and the pro-
viding a building for the same, and to appoint such
officers, professors, masters, and others, to be engaged
in and about the said college, and with such salaries, and
subject to such conditions and regulations, as the said ,
governors shall think fit, and that they, shall from
time to time settle and determine the scheme neces-
sary for the management of the said college, aw.i.,the
course of education and instruction to be pursued therein.
"And,we.furthar u(iillinnd ordain, that the governors
shall cause proper accounts of the annual income and
expenditure of the said coliege to be kept, and that such
'accounts shall he duly balanced, and that a copy of the
balance-sheet or general statement of such annual ace Ni n t
shall be forwarded at regular annual periods to one of