Druitt In The LONDON GAZETTE 1881

[Nina Brown]

THE LONDON GAZETTE
January 25, 1881
Civil Service Commission January 20, 1881
The Civil Service Commissioners hereby give notice, that the Candidates hereinafter named
have passed the Preliminary Examination for situations in the Civil Service (Class I), viz.:—
Of the Candidates examined on January 14, 1881—
Archer, Charles
Badenoch, George
Bassett, Frank Pickering
Berkeley,. Herbert
Bourchier, Henry
Brise, Evelyn John Ruggles---another familiar name
Burrell, Peter George
Clarke, Edward Ashley Walrond
Cohn, John Rougier
Connolly, James Henry
Cook, Edward Tyas
Cox, Homersham
Crowly, Joseph Patrick
Cuthbertson, Norman William
De .la Bere, Henry De La B&re
Druitt, Montague John
Ferard, Arthur George
Fiddes, George Vandeleur
Fincham, Francis Warren Xavier
Fraser, James Wilson
Gee, Raymond
Hammond, Francis
Hand, Cecil Sturges
Herington, Stuart
Hoskyns-Abrahall, Bennet
Johnson, Hugh
Jones, John Francis
Kains-Jackson, Charles
La Brooy, Justin Theodore
Lees, George Turbayne
Liebich, Max Alfred Oscar
Lord, Robert Harley
Matthews, George Frederick
Orr, Thomas Morris Hamilton Jones .
Pynn, John Henry.
Scott-Langley, Harley Edward
Stebbing, George Alexander
Thiselton, Herbert Cecil
Tidey, Stuart Alexander
T winning, Edward Arthur
Webb, Theodore Walter
Wood, Ernest Alex
Worlledge, Edmund Clark
Wright, Arthur Samuel

[Howard Brown]

Nina found the reference above this morning.

I wonder if Brise ( whom you see mentioned ) who was HS Henry Matthews secretary and stayed on in Government as Prison Commissioner after Matthews departed....and in light of Andrew Spallek mentioning Brise as being a cricketer who competed with Druitt in the latest Rip ( October 2008)....if he had any thoughts on Druitt since he knew him.

Could HE be a possible source for Macnaghten's 1894 comments? Just a thought...

[Howard Brown]

To clarify the previous post, could Macnaghten have heard something from Brise which led to the statement that Druitt's family suspected him of complicity in the WM ?

Sorry about that.

[Debbie McDonald]

Evelyn Ruggles Brise was in the Eton cricket team that played against Druitt's Winchester team in 1876.

Another bit of info to connect Druitt with Stehpen and Prince Eddy! I still think there was something very strange about Druitt's death!

Regards