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The Philolutic Society’s
accounts book from 1829 to
1833 includes weekly fines
for ‘non-bathing’ at a cost of
two shillings and sixpence.
The group’s treasurer and
first president was the Right
Honourable Sir Lancelot
Shadwell; then nearly fifty,
the former barrister and MP
had been educated at Eton. In
1827 he’d become the last
Vice-Chancellor of England
and was knighted soon after.