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and industrial bourgeoisie.13 The result was a mixture of the social exclusivity and physical hardships of public school life, tempered by less certainty of destiny to rule than characterised Eton, Westminster or Harrow; and a greater sense of provincial civic purpose than was inculcated in those places. Shrewsbury, for example, still maintains the mission house it established for the poor of Liverpool and which 8 Cole_01_Ch1.indd 8 29/01/2011 12:07 Early life was extended during Wainwright’s time, whilst most senior public schools have abandoned such activity
1 The National Archives, UK (TNA), Colonial Office (CO) 318 Colonial Office and Predecessors: West Indies Original Correspondence/118 West India Miscellaneous 1834, vol. 1, Public Office, Jabez Bunting (Wesleyan Mission House) to John Lefevre (Colonial Office), 16 April 1834, p. 406. 2 TNA, CO 318
See, for example, TNA, CO 318/118, 12 April 1834, Jabez Bunting (Wesleyan Mission House) to John Lefevre (Colonial Office), pp. 403–405; TNA, CO 318/118, 8 April 1834, John Dyer (Secretary, Baptist Missionary Society) to Johan Lefevre, Esq. Under Secretary of State to the Colonies, pp. 399–402. 100
Wickramasinghe, Sri Lanka , p. 80. 196 CMS/B/OMS/C CE O23/12, Report of the Kanian Itinerary for the year ending September 30 1873. 197 TNA, CO 318/118 West India Miscellaneous 1834, vol. 1, Public Office, Jabez Bunting (Wesleyan Mission House) to John Lefevre