Dear Philip,
Thank you for the note on "A Little Prep". Let us hope that the story of Samuel Rabbeth is not the one that sticks in everyone's mind, brave though he was..
As usual, rather late to the chase, I would add:
In Kipling Journal 123, for October 1957, a Society member (R.M. Bourne) who had been at USC between 1890 and 1897, provisionally identified the boy saved by Crom Price as "Docker".
Roger Lancelyn Green later suggested that this was actually "Dowker", who was at USC from May to July 1879, as a day boy.
Crom had, of course, studied as a medical student. You may remember that this annoyed Rossetti, who had hoped to encourage Crom as an artist (C.P. had worked with him and with Morris and Burne-Jones on the roof decorations for the Union Library at Oxford).
D.G.R. wrote:
There is a young Doctor named Crom
Whom you get very little good from,
If his pockets you jog,
The inside of a dog,
Is certain to trickle from Crom
Best regards,
John
