Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Trinity College, Cambridge University
Connections
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Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Brett | DB
's father, Reginald Baliol Brett
, became the second Viscount Esher after his father
's death in 1899. In his capacity as a peer and courtier, Reginald Regy Brett wore distinguished hats after being... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Brooke | She may have had a daughter, too, who died young. Jack received his BA from Trinity College
, Cambridge in 1780 and an MA in 1783. McMullen, Lorraine. An Odd Attempt in a Woman: The Literary Life of Frances Brooke. University of British Columbia Press. 122 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Colin Campbell | Lord Colin Campbell, born on 8 March 1853 to George Douglas Campbell
, eighth duke of Argyll, and his wife, born Lady Elizabeth Leveson-Gower
, Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under George Douglas Campbell “The Late Lord Colin Campbell”. The Scotsman, Scotsman Publications, p. 7. (19 June 1895): 7 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Cornford | Frances Darwin
married Francis Macdonald Cornford
, a classical scholar and Fellow of Trinity
. He later became Professor of Ancient Philosophy. The Trustees of FreeBMD,. FreeBMD. http://www.freebmd.org.uk/. Cornford, Hugh et al. “Frances Cornford 1886-1960”. Selected Poems, edited by Jane Dowson and Jane Dowson, Enitharmon Press, p. xxvii - xxxvii. xxx-xxxi |
Education | Abraham Cowley | He was educated at Westminster School
and Trinity College, Cambridge
. He later studied at Oxford University
for a degree in medicine. Johnson, Samuel. The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets. C. Bathurst, J. Buckland, W. Strahan, et. al., http://SpCol PR 553 J67 1781. 1: 3-6,11 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Textual Production | Hannah Cullwick | HC
's writings, only selections of which have been printed, are housed in the Munby collection in the Wren Library at Trinity College, Cambridge
. Munby, a graduate of Trinity, bequeathed them there, with instructions... |
Education | John Dryden | JD
attended Westminster School
, whose headmaster at this date was the legendary Richard Busby
. When, years later, Dryden published a translation of the third satire of the Latin poet Persius
, he reminisced... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Celia Fiennes | CF
is interested less in appearances than how things work. On her first journey she made this observation of the spire of Salisbury Cathedral: being so high it appeares to us below as sharpe... |
Education | Edward FitzGerald | EFG
attended King Edward VI Grammar School
, Bury St Edmunds, and Trinity College, Cambridge
. At each he was most deeply involved in the study of English literature, but he remained no more... |
Employer | Sir James George Frazer | Frazer was a classicist and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge
(his own college) when his interest in anthropology and the study of ancient religions was first awakened. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Education | George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron | His education began in earnest with attendance at Aberdeen grammar school, from which, via a small private school in Dulwich, he made the transition to Harrow School
and then to Trinity College, Cambridge
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Charlotte Guest | After two and a half years as a widow and after much trial and inexpressible opposition, Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Guest, Charlotte. Extracts from her Journal, 1853-1891. Editor Bessborough, Vere Brabazon Ponsonby, John Murray. 45 |
Dedications | Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins | Her dedication of this book to the Rev. George Townsend
of Trinity College, Cambridge
, praises his Biblical scholarship. Her preface says that her publisher was willing to risk Hawkins, Laetitia-Matilda. Devotional Exercises Extracted from Bishop Patrick’s Christian Sacrifice. preface |
Textual Production | Susanna Hopton | Hopton may have begun adapting Austin/Birchley purely for her own use. Her annotated copy of his text (now at Trinity College
, Cambridge; excerpts reproduced in the modern facsimile edition of her works) does... |
Occupation | A. E. Housman | In January 1911 he moved to take up a Chair at Trinity College, Cambridge
. |
Timeline
1872: In A History of English Literature William...
Writing climate item
1872
In A History of English LiteratureWilliam Collier
, a professor at Trinity College
, asserted that all criticism is biographical because it is impossible to separate the author from the book.
15 November 1979: Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher revealed...
National or international item
15 November 1979
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher revealed that Sir Anthony Blunt
, distinguished art historian and Master of the Queen's Pictures, had spied for Soviet Russia.
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