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Petition presented by them to the House of
Commons, praying for an enquiry by a Select Committee
into the constitution and expenditure of the
Metropolitan Asylums Board, and inviting the
Vestry's co-operation in the matter.
The Vestry concurred with the views of the
Strand Guardians, and presented a similar petition
to the House of Commons.
St. John's Gate.—An event in the history of the
Parish, which may well find a place in these pages,
though the Vestry were not immediately concerned,
was the visit of the Prince of Wales and the Duke
of York, accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh,
the Duke of Cambridge, and other members of the
Royal Family to St. John's Gate, on the 24th June,
1893, when a Memorial to H.R.H. the Duke of
Clarence and Avondale was unveiled by the Prince
of Wales, Grand Prior of the Order of the Hospital
of St. John of Jerusalem in England.
Hugh Myddelton School.—His Royal Highness,
accompanied by the Duke of York, again visited the
Parish on the 13th December, (the twenty-sixth
anniversary of the Fenian Explosion), when he
formally opened the Hugh Myddelton School. built
by the School Board on the site of the Middlesex
House of Detention.
Marriage of H.R.H. the Duke of York.—On
the occasion of the marriage of H.R.H. the Duke
of York and H.S.H. the Princess Victoria Mary of
Teck, on the 6th July, 1893, the Vestry Hall, in
common with a large number of public and private
buildings throughout the Metropolis, was illuminated,
and a holiday was granted to the staff.