Hawkins, Laetitia-Matilda. Devotional Exercises Extracted from Bishop Patrick’s Christian Sacrifice. 1823.
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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. 1823. preface |
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... |
Education | Sir Isaac Newton | Newton entered Trinity College, Cambridge
in June 1661, in the category of sub-sizar, a poor student who would earn his keep by waiting on others. His mother had wanted to keep him at home to... |
Education | William Makepeace Thackeray | Two years after his father died, the small WMT
was sent from India to England to begin his education. His mother, who remarried, herself returned to England in 1819. Thackeray was educated at a number... |
Education | Alfred Tennyson | AT
was initially educated by his father, and then at Trinity College, Cambridge
, which he entered in November 1827 (by which time he had already co-published his first volume of poetry, Poems, by Two... |
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/. |
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., 1781, 4 vols., 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/. |
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... |
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/. |
Employer | Deborah Levy | |
Employer | Sir Isaac Newton | In 1667 he became a Fellow of Trinity
(which gave him an income and freedom to pursue his intellectual interests with no prescribed duties, such as teaching) and two years after that Lucasian Professor of... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lucy Knox | Her father, the Hon. Stephen Edmond Spring Rice
, forged lifelong friendships with Alfred Tennyson
, Thomas Carlyle
, and Edward FitzGerald
during his years at Bury St Edmunds Grammar School
and Trinity College, Cambridge |
Family and Intimate relationships | Virginia Woolf | Virginia's elder brother, Thoby (1880-1906), was confident, talented, charming, and very important to her. At Trinity College, Cambridge
, he developed a circle of friends who were to be the core of the Bloomsbury Group... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Virginia Woolf | Adrian
(1883-1948) was the youngest Stephen child. After Vanessa's marriage he lived with Virginia at 29 Fitzroy Square, then moved with her to 38 Brunswick Square. Like Thoby, he studied at Trinity College, Cambridge
... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Augusta Webster | Augusta Davies
married solicitor Thomas Webster
, son of a tradesman, a Fellow and law lecturer at Trinity College
, Cambridge. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Rigg, Patricia. Julia Augusta Webster: Victorian Aestheticism and the Woman Writer. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2009. 152 |
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