ABSTRACT
Richard D’Oyly Carte attended University College School in Gower Street from 1856 to 1860. In January 1861, he sat the matriculation examination for the University of London. As one of the thirty-six candidates to achieve a first division pass he might have been expected to be registered as a university student and pursue an academic qualification, but he did not. Cunningham Bridgeman explains that “in deference to the wish of his parents he abandoned the ‘higher education’ and entered his father’s business”. 1 University authorities have also confirmed that Carte was not a student. 2
