King Edward VI Grammar School (Chelmsford) - King Edward VI Grammar School (Chelmsford) King Edward VI Grammar School, or KEGS, is a British grammar school located in the town of Chelmsford, roughly in the middle of the county of Essex. It takes boys from the ages of 11 ("Year 7") to 18 ("Year 13"), although it becomes mixed in the sixth form ("Year 12" and "Year 13"). It was one of many grammar schools founded by King Edward VI, and its origin resulted from a royal warrant dated March 24, 1551[1]. The school was moved to its present site in Broomfield Road in 1892[1]. Anthony Tuckwell, headmaster of KEGS from 1984 to 1999, is the author of a history of the school, entitled, 'That honourable and gentlemanlike House', a history of King Edward.
King Edward VI Grammar School - King Edward VI Grammar School There are many schools in the United Kingdom named King Edward VI Grammar School. For example: In Birmingham: see King Edward VI Grammar School (Birmingham) In Chelmsford: see King Edward VI Grammar School (Chelmsford) In Southampton: see King Edward VI Grammar School (Southampton) This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page..
King Edward's school - King Edward's school There are several schools in England called King Edward's School, the majority of them founded during the reign of King Edward VI of England. They include: King Edward's School, Bath King Edward's School, Witley near Godalming in Surrey King Edward's School Bury, Lancashire King Edward's School Yeovil, Devon King Edward VI School Litchfield King Edward VI School Southampton, Hampshire King Edward VI Foundation Schools, Birmingham, West Midlands Aston (boys) Camp Hill (boys) Camp Hill (girls) Five Ways (mixed) King Edward's (Boys) King Edward VI Grammar School Chelmsford, Essex King Edward VII High School King's Lynn, Norfolk This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it..
King Edward's School - King Edward's School King Edward's School is an independent secondary school in Birmingham, England, founded by King Edward VI. Located in Edgbaston, it is part of the Foundation of Schools of King Edward VI in Birmingham and one of the leading secondary schools in the country..
George Edward Bateman Saintsbury - George Edward Bateman Saintsbury George Edward Bateman Saintsbury (October 23, 1845 - 1933), English man of letters, was born at Southampton. He was educated at King's College School, London, and at Merton College, Oxford (B.A., 1868), and spent six years in Guernsey as senior classical master of Elizabeth College. From 1874 to 1876 he was headmaster of the Elgin Educational Institute. He began his literary career in 1875 as a critic for the Academy, and for ten years was actively engaged in journalism, becoming an important member of the staff of the Saturday Review. Some of the critical essays contributed to the literary journals were afterwards collected in his Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 (2 vols., 1890-1895), Essays on French Novelists (1891), Miscellaneous Essays (1892), Corrected Impressions.
Edward Elgar - Edward Elgar Edward Elgar Edward William Elgar (June 2, 1857 - February 23, 1934) was an English composer, born in the small Worcestershire village of Broadheath to William Elgar, a piano tuner and music dealer, and his wife Ann. Surrounded by sheet music and instruments in his father's shop in Worcester's High Street, the young Elgar became self-taught in music. On warm summer's days, he would take manuscripts into the countryside to study them. Thus there began for him a strong association between music and nature. As he was later to say, "There is music in the air, music all around us, the world is full of it and you simply take as much as you require." Having left school at the age of 15, he.
Edward James Stone - Edward James Stone The following text is from the public domain 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica, as such it may contain errors and is not fully wikified Edward James Stone (February 28, 1831 – May 6, 1897) was a British astronomer. He was born in London. Educated at the City of London School, he obtained a studentship at King's College, London, and in 1856 a scholarship at Queens' College, Cambridge, graduated as fifth wrangler in 1859, and was immediately elected fellow of his college. The following year he succeeded the Rev. R. Main as chief assistant at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and at once undertook the fundamental task of improving astronomical constants. The most important of these, the sun's mean parallax, was at that time subject to considerable.
Edward Pococke - Edward Pococke Edward Pococke (1604-1691) was an English Orientalist and biblical scholar. He was the son of a Berkshire clergyman, and was educated at the free school of Thame in Oxfordshire and at Corpus Christi College, Oxford (scholar in 1620, fellow in 1628). The first result of his studies was an edition from a Bodleian Library manuscript of the four New Testament epistles (2 Peter, 2 and 3 John, Jude) which were not in the old Syriac canon, and were not contained in European editions of the Peshito. This was published at Leiden at the instigation of G Vossius in 1630, and in the same year Pococke sailed for Aleppo as chaplain to the English factory. At Aleppo he studied the Arabic language, and collected many.
Edward Young - Edward Young Edward Young (1683 - April 5, 1765) was an English poet, best remembered for Night Thoughts. He was the son of Edward Young, afterwards dean of Salisbury, and was born at his father's rectory at Upham, near Winchester, where he was baptized on July 3, 1683. He was educated at Winchester College, and matriculated in 1702 at New College, Oxford. He later moved to Corpus Christi, and in 1708 was nominated by Archbishop Tenison to a law fellowship at All Souls'. He took his degree of D.C.L. in 1719. His first publication was an Epistle to ... Lord Lansdoune (1713). It was followed by a Poem on the Last Day (1713), dedicated to Queen Anne; The Force of Religion: or Vanquished Love (1714), a.
Edward of Portugal - Edward of Portugal Duarte of Portugal (Edward, in English language), the Philosopher, eleventh king of Portugal, was born in Viseu in October 31 1391 and died in Tomar in September 13 1438. He was the son of John I of Portugal by his wife, Philippa of Lancaster. Duarte succeeded his father in 1433. As a prince, Duarte always followed his father, king João I, in the affairs of the kingdom. He was knighted in 1415, after the capture of Ceuta. Duarte was made king in 1433 and soon showed interest in internal consensus. During is short reign of five years, Duarte called the Cortes (the national assembly) no less than five times to discuss internal affairs and politics. The king also followed the politics of his.
Edward Arber - Edward Arber Edward Arber (December 4, 1836 - 1912), English man of letters, was born in London. From 1854 be 1878 he was a clerk in the admiralty; from 1878 to 1881 lecturer on English, under Prof. H. Morley, at University College; did from 1881 to 1894 professor of English at Mason College, Birmingham. From 1894 he lived in London as emeritus professor, being also a fellow of King's College. In 1905 he received the honorary degree of D. Litt. at Oxford. He married in 1869, and had two sons, one of them, EAN Arber, becoming demonstrator in palaeobotany at Cambridge. As a scholarly editor Professor Arber's services to English literature are memorable. His name is associated particularly with the series of "English Reprints" (1868-1880), by.
Edward Middleton Barry - Edward Middleton Barry Edward Middleton Barry (1830 - 27 January 1880) was an English architect of the 19th century. The third son of Sir Charles Barry, Edward completed his father’s work on the Palace of Westminster and Halifax Town Hall after his death in 1860, but was also responsible for numerous other buildings of his own, particularly in London, often favouring a very classical style. Among his most significant contributions to London’s architectural scene is the Theatre of the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden. The previous theatre (built by Robert Smirke in 1809) was destroyed in a fire in 1857. Edward Barry was commissioned to design the new "Royal Italian Opera" as it was then known, completing it for its official opening on 15 May.
Edward Nicholas - Edward Nicholas Sir Edward Nicholas (4 April 1593-1669), English statesman, was the eldest son of John Nicholas, a member of an old Wiltshire family. He was educated at Salisbury grammar school, Winchester College and Queens College, Oxford. After studying law at the Middle Temple, Nicholas became secretary to Lord Zouch, warden and admiral of the Cinque Ports, in 1618, and continued in a similar employment under the Duke of Buckingham. In 1625 he became secretary to the admiralty; shortly afterwards he was appointed an extra clerk of the privy council with duties relating to admiralty business, and from 1635 to 1641 he was one of the clerks in ordinary to the council. In this situation Nicholas had much business to transact in connection with the levy.
Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow - Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow (9 December 1731 - 12 September 1806), Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, was born at Bracon Ash, in the county of Norfolk. He was the eldest son of the Rev. Thomas Thurlow. He was educated at a private school and at the grammar school of Canterbury, where he was considered a bold, refractory, clever boy. In 1748 Thurlow entered Caius College, Cambridge, but an act of insubordination necessitated his leaving Cambridge without a degree (1751). He was for some time articled to a solicitor in Lincoln's Inn along with the poet Cowper, but in 1754 was called to the bar at the Inner Temple, and subsequently went on the western circuit, at first with little success..
Abington School District v. Schempp - Abington School District v. Schempp The neutrality of this article is disputed. In Abington Township School District v. Schempp 374 US 203 (1963) (decided 17 June 1963) the United States Supreme Court invalidated mandatory devotional Bible reading in public schools. In February 1963, the Supreme Court of the United States heard a First Amendment case which would forever change the way Americans viewed the Court and the value given religion by the highest magistrate in the land. In fact, this case is vilified as one that "kicked God and prayer out of the schools." [1] With its watershed decision in June of that year, the Court found for an Abington Township Unitarian who pursued litigation to purge a 1949 Pennsylvania state law providing for mandatory devotional Bible.
Alfred Edward Housman - Alfred Edward Housman Alfred Edward Housman (March 26, 1859 - April 30, 1936) was an English poet and classical scholar best known for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Life 2 Poetry 3 External Links Life Housman was born in Fockbury, Worcestershire, the eldest of seven children of a country solicitor. His brother Laurence Housman and sister Clemence Housman also became writers. Housman was educated first in King Edward's School, then in Bromsgrove School where he acquired a strong academic grounding and won prizes for his poetry. In 1877 he won an open scholarship to St John's College, Oxford, where he studied Classics. He was a brilliant student, gaining First Class Honours in Classical Moderations, but a withdrawn person whose only.
Thomas Edward Brown - Thomas Edward Brown Thomas Edward Brown (May 5, 1830 - October 29, 1897), British poet, scholar and divine, was born at Douglas, Isle of Man. His father, the Rev. Robert Brown, held the living of St Matthew's--a homely church in a poor district. His mother came of Scottish parentage, though born in the island. Thomas, the sixth of ten children, was but two years old when the family removed to Kirk Braddan vicarage, a short distance from Douglas, where his father (a scholar of no university, but so fastidious about composition that he would have some sentences of an English classic read to him before answering an invitation) took share with the parish schoolmaster in tutoring the clever boy until, at the age of fifteen, he was.
Thomas Edward Cliffe Leslie - Thomas Edward Cliffe Leslie Thomas Edward Cliffe Leslie (1827 - January 27, 1882), English economist, was born in the county of Wexford in (as is believed) the year 1827. He was the second son of the Rev. Edward Leslie, prebendary of Dromore, and rector of Annahilt, in the county of Down. His family was of Scottish descent, but had been connected with Ireland since the reign of Charles I. Amongst his ancestors were that accomplished prelate, John Leslie (15711671), bishop first of Raphoe and afterwards of Clogher, who, when holding the former see, offered so stubborna resistance to the Cromwellian forces, and the bishop's son Charles (see above), the nonjuror. Cliffe Leslie received his elementary education from his father, who resided in England, though holding church preferment.
Shrewsbury School - Shrewsbury School Shrewsbury School is a British public school, located in Shrewsbury in the county of Shropshire. It is a boarding school for boys aged 13 ("Year 9") to 18 ("Year 13"). It was founded in 1552 by King Edward VI, and in 1571 was augmented by Queen Elizabeth I[1]..
William King - William King William King (1663 - 1712) was an English poet. He was born in London, the son of an Ezekiel King. He was related to the family of Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon. From Westminster School, where he was a scholar under the care of Dr. Busby, at the age of eighteen he was elected to Christ Church College, Oxford in 1681. There he is said to have dedicated himself so completely to his studies that after eight years he had read over twenty-two thousand books and manuscripts. In 1688, the same year in which he was made Master of Arts, he published a confutation of Varillas's account of Wickliffe; and, engaging in the study of the civil law, became Doctor in 1692, and was.
