KING OF WESTMINSTER

Evening Star, Issue 18262, 30 April 1923, Page 6

KING OF WESTMINSTER

As the headmaster who kept his hat on in the King’s presence, Dr Gow, principal for eighteen years of Westminster School, whose death has just occurred in his seventieth year, promises to bo longest remembered Nearly four years ago, on Shrove Tuesday, March 4, *1919, Dr Gow received tho King and Queen and the Prince of Wales on the occasion of tho annual, Pancake “ Grcaze.” On tho following day it was pointed out in 1 The Times ’ that during tin; ceremony, and in the Royal Presence, the headmaster alono of all "the civilians present retained his hat. Tho explanation was, so the account proceeded, that he told the King, while escorting him across Little Dean’s Yard, tho famous story of Dr Busby, who, on tho occasion of the visit of King Charles 11., refused to remove his hat on the -ground that he could not allow any of Ins scholars to think that there was anyone greater than himself at Westminster. Thereupon King George, with ready wit, immediately commanded Dr Gow to replace his hat. No doubt, when future Sovereigns visit Westminister, the then headmaster will associate the name of Dr Gow with that of Dr Busby in tho story of tire hat.