Rugby School

Anne Bradby (later AR ) was born at Rugby in Warwickshire, at School Field, one of the houses of Rugby School , late in the evening of the last day of the summer term.

He was educated at Rugby School , where his father was by this time a housemaster, so that the worlds of home and school were perhaps uncomfortably intertwined. He then went on to King's College, Cambridge

He was a model student at Rugby School , where Thomas Arnold was headmaster and his son Matthew Arnold a fellow student who became a close friend of Clough's. From Rugby AHC went on to...

Thomas Arnold , the reforming Rugby headmaster, was her illustrious grandfather.

Her brother, Thomas William Jex-Blake , served as a consistently supportive figure. He was ordained a clergyman, and found his own success as an educator. He began his last of several successive educational roles as...

RM 's father left Rugby School to take his family to live in the warm climate of Varazze, Italy, on account of his wife's ill health. They stayed in Italy for seven years.

RM 's father, George Campbell Macaulay , was a schoolmaster at Rugby School when she was born. He later became an academic. His death at sixty-three in 1915 was both a great loss and a...

AR 's father, Henry Christopher Bradby , was a housemaster at Rugby School , where he had succeeded the father of Rupert Brooke . He died in 1947, and at his funeral a friend called...

ES 's father, Arthur Sidgwick , was a classical scholar who had been regarded since school and university days as brilliant. He spent many years as a master at Rugby School before becoming a Fellow...

Prominent among the middle-class supporters and champions of EH 's poetry were Dr Thomas James and Philip Bracebridge Homer (masters at Rugby School ), and Bertie Greatheed .

The Critical Review dismissed the novel as nauseous and insipid, and the heroine as so inconsistent as to be incredible; its only reason for noticing it at all was to deter AMS from further publication...

The advertisement for the book in print, like the pre-notification, was carried by Jopson's Coventry Mercury. The volume was dedicated to the dramatist Bertie Greatheed . It was issued in two forms: ordinary copies...

She loved the large Rugby house and garden of her early years, where she climbed trees and played games of make-believe.

Thomas Arnold (1795-1842) was the grandfather of Mary Augusta Ward and was famous as headmaster of Rugby School .

According to the authors of A Piece of the Puzzle, Woolsey Johnson, although obviously a rich man, seems to have overextended himself in building his new home (to do which he had to bring...