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Dr. Hawtrey, the late Provost of Eton College, 1862. Edward Craven Hawtrey attended the College as a boy from 1799, starting out as an Oppidan and then later becoming a King's Scholar in 1803. In 1814, he returned to the school as Assistant Master and twenty years later became the Head Master. During this time he oversaw a number of changes at Eton including the introduction of Mathematics. He oversaw the installation of a sanatorium for infectious fevers and was able to do so through increasing the school fees with the support of parents. He also saw the erection of the school library and closed the Old Christopher Inn, previously a popular drinking spot for the boys. He was also keen to solve the problem of boys wasting their parent's money on goods sold by tradesmen travelling through Eton. He expressed in a circular from 1835 that it was 'nearly impossible to control the Tradesmen' and that instead the payment of the boys' Bills were to fall to the students themselves instead of their parents in an attempt to make them more wary of how they spent their money...In 1853 he eventually became Provost and the next year he became vicar of Mapledurham, both positions he held until his death in 1862. From "Illustrated London News", 1862.