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New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9621, 29 March 1917, Page 8

The Royal Naval College, to which Sir Henry Jackson has been appointed admiral president, occupies what has been described as the finest \ specimen of classical architecture in. England. It was built from plans by Wren as a memorial to Queen Mary, wife of William 111. The work was begun by public subscription, to which the bereaved monarch contributed (or. rather, promised) .££000; but all kinds ■of devices, including lotteries, had to be resorted to before it was finished. First opened as an asylum, for disabled seamen in 1705, the hospital was more than a century and a half the home of over 2000 Greenwich pensioners. They and their quaint uniforms disappeared from the scene in 1870. and three years later, when the necessary alterations had been made, the college was opened. The Act of 1869. bv which it was established, provided that in case of war the building shall be at all times available for its original purpose.