- Type of Memorial
- Window
- WMR Reference Number
- 2582
- Description
- Two-light stained glass window, whose tracery window depicts the Repton School crest and motto.
The left light depicts the monogram and image of Sir Philip Sidney in armour, holding a sword in his left hand, and a Bible in his right hand.
The right light depicts the monogram and image of Sir Sir Richard Grenvil, holding a sword and with an anchor at his feet.
Spanning the foot of both lights is an inscription re General George Hutchinson R.E., C.B., C.S.I.
[N.B. The General George Hutchinson R.E., C.B., C.S.I. (inscribed as having died on 30/12/1899) was not a war casualty. He was the maternal uncle of Algernon George Grenfell, the Headmaster of Mostyn School, who designed its Chapel, and had this window installed. A biography (titled 'Major-General George Hutchinson. A brief memorial of a holy and useful life', printed in 1900) records that General Hutchinson was aged 73 when he died of influenza in 1899; the son of a Bengal Army officer, he had been born at sea on 18/3/1826, during his parents' voyage to England].
A history of Mostyn School's Chapel and its memorials states that General Hutchinson (a maternal uncle of Mostyn School's Headmaster, Algernon George Grenfell) 'was hit in the head by a bullet in 1857 during the siege of Lucknow in Bengal', and that 'It is recorded that George Grenfell and Wilfred Grenfell would wobble the bullet under their uncle's head, as it had never been fully removed'].
- Inscription
- Tracery window: PORTA VACAT CULPA
Left light; main section: GREATER LOVE/ HATH NO MAN/ THAN THIS/ SIR PHILIP 'SIDNEY' KT/ BORN 1544// Killed at Zutphen 1586/ Chevalier sans peur et sans reproche
Right light; main section: I HAVE FINISHED/ MY COURSE/ I HAVE FOUGHT/ A GOOD FIGHT// SIR RICHARD 'GRENVIL' KT/ Captain of the 'Revenge'/ Died of his wounds after the Battle/ of Flores 1591
Panel spanning the foot of both lights: IN MEMORY OF GENERAL GEORGE HUTCHINSON R.E.,C.B.,C.S.I. WHO DIED DECEMBER 30 1899
