BUSBY, RICHARD (1606-95), headmaster of Westminster school, was born at Lutton in Lincolnshire in 1606. He was edu cated at Westminster school and Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated in 1628. He was rewarded in 1639 for his services to the Stuart cause with the prebend and rectory of Cudworth, with the chapel of Knowle annexed, in Somersetshire. Next year he became headmaster of Westminster, a post which he retained till his death, at the age of 90. He himself once boasted that 16 of the bishops who then occupied the bench had been birched with his "little rod." Among the more illustrious of his pupils may be mentioned South, Dryden, Locke, Prior and Bishop Atterbury. He wrote and edited many works for the use of his scholars, notably his Greek and Latin grammars. He died on April 6,