Osborne House Former students of Osborne included Queen Victoria's great-grandsons, the future Edward VIII and George VI, and their younger brother George, Duke of Kent. Another well-known alumnus of the college was Jack Llewelyn Davies, one of the five Llewelyn Davies boys who inspired J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan. The case of George Archer-Shee from 1908, who was expelled from Osborne after being falsely accused of stealing a 5-shilling postal order, inspired the play "The Winslow Boy". In some continuity with the former Royal Naval College is the nearby T.S. Osborne Sea Cadet unit. During World War I, the secondary wings of
Martin Archer Shee and a second part followed in 1809. Lord Byron spoke well of it in his "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers". Shee published another small volume of verse in 1814, entitled "The Commemoration of Sir Joshua Reynolds, and other Poems", but this was less successful. He also produced a tragedy, "Alasco", set in Poland. The play was accepted at Covent Garden, but was refused a licence, on the grounds that it contained treasonable allusions, and Shee angrily resolved to make his appeal to the public. He carried out his threat in 1824, but "Alasco" was still on the list of unacted