Samuel Berdmore (schoolmaster)

[9] Burney had been at Charterhouse from 1768, aged 10, and after an early misdemeanour at Cambridge hoped to improve his current position, head of a school at Hammersmith.

Francis Wollaston the elder, a resident of Charterhouse Square, answered making plain that the past was not forgotten.

[12] John Timbs in his Club Life of London placed Berdmore, who "abounded in anecdote", in the group who met in the box corner of the Chapter Coffee-House off Paternoster Row, some way south of the school.

[1][16] A poem "My Club" published in 1795 included Berdmore with a group of the friends of Samuel Rogers, then a fashionable poet.

[5][18] Henry Meen, a contemporary, saw it as a vehicle for attacks on Thomas Gray, Richard Hurd, William Warburton and others.

[19][20] In 1800, a year before the publication of the Specimens of Literary Resemblance, Berdmore wrote under the pseudonym "O. P. C." an article for the European Magazine, "Observations on the Two Pindaric Odes of Gray".

[21] In this fashion Berdmore involved himself in discussion of Gray's Pindaric Odes in particular, siding with Gilbert Wakefield, whom he had taught at Nottingham, against Samuel Johnson's comments.

[23] The Critical Review gave as an example of Berdmore's method the parallel found between a sermon by Samuel Ogden and a passage in Xenophon.

[24] Berdmore edited Lusus Poetici ex ludo literario apud Ædes Carthusianas Londini.

[1] One of those dwelled on the case of Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough, a Charterhouse foundation scholar who became a Governor of the school.