staff and OB’s may participate in the ‘Open’ which follows the senior route. Cricket at the 1900 Olympics Four Old Blundellians played in the gold medal-winning Great Britain cricket team at the 1900 Summer Olympics, the only time cricket featured in the Olympics. Britain was represented by an unofficial touring club team, the Devon & Somerset Wanderers Cricket Club (formed by William Donne in 1894 and made up of Old Blundellians and members of Castle Cary Cricket Club). Southern Railway Schools Class The School lent its name to the thirty-third steam locomotive (Engine 932) in the Southern Railway's Class V of which there were 40. This class was also known as the Schools Class because all 40 of the class were named after prominent English public schools. Blundell's, as it was called, was built in 1934. The locomotive bearing the school's name was withdrawn from service in January 1961. In 2009 Hornby produced a model of this particular Schools class locomotive. As the product photograph shows, while the name of this locomotive has been variously quoted as Blundells or Blundell's, the apostrophe does actually appear on the nameplate. Old Blundellians The first known society of former pupils, known as Old Blundellians (OBs), was established as early as 1725. William Hogarth engraved the letterhead for the invitation to a dinner for former pupils of the School in 1725 and the Ticket for Tiverton School Feast in 1740, (image of print courtesy of Antiqueprints.com). Notable former pupils include: A–D Robert Arundell, Governor of the Windward Islands and Barbados Vernon Bartlett, journalist and politician Edward Bellew, drainage inspector and winner of the Victoria Cross Dominic Bess, England cricketer R. D. Blackmore, author of Lorna Doone Richard Bowring, Master of Selwyn College, Cambridge William Buckland, geologist William Edward Buckley, professor of Anglo-Saxon George Bull, theologian and bishop Giles Bullard, High Commissioner to the West Indies Charles Campion, food critic Bampfylde Moore Carew, rogue and imposter Aelred Carlyle, missionary and monk Frederick William Cuming, 1900 Olympic gold medal winner as part of the UK cricket team Charles Cornwallis Chesney, soldier and military writer George Tomkyns Chesney, soldier and novelist Ben Collins, Formula 3 racing driver and the infamous Stig John Conybeare, Bishop of Bristol and notable 18th-century theologian John Davis, Welsh cricketer Edward Dayman, hymn writer E–K John Ebdon, writer John Eliot, English statesman Tristan Evans, Drummer & backing vocals for UK based band The