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most promising youth of
Westminster School.’
The usual place for pupils
to bathe was off Millbank, a
well-established bathing spot
by the early 1800s. When in
1809 a Mr Crunden was
arrested in Brighton for
undressing himself on the
beach before a swim, the
defence noted that at
Millbank where ‘the
Westminster boys have from
time immemorial been

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