16 JANUARY 1904, Page 15

ETON IN 1829-1830.

[TD THE Mnros OF THE “spacrirop....] Sim,—In your notice in the Spectator of January 2nd of Mr. T. K. Selwyn's " Eton in 1829-1830 " you state that the late Lord Justice Selwyn was Senior Classic in 1828. Will you allow me, as an old Johnian, to point out that this is a mistake P The Senior Classic in 1828 was the Rev. William Selwyn, a Canon of Ely, who was, I believe, an elder brother of the Bishop of New Zealand and of the Lord Justice. The Lord

Justice himself graduated in 1836, as appears by the Cambridge Calendar. He was a member of Trinity College.—I am,