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Eton
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Eton , town (1991 pop. 3,559), Windsor and...the Thames River. It is known chiefly for Eton College, largest and most famous of the English...cloisters) date back to the 15th cent. Eton is unlike other English public schools in...
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Eton College
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
Eton College. Founded by Henry VI with the title ‘The College of the Blessed Mary of Eton beside Windsor’ in 1440, it was modelled on Winchester and New College, Oxford, set up by William of Wykeham. In the original foundation...
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William Oughtred
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Academic Environment Oughtred was born in Eton, Buckinghamshire, England, on March...Oughtred, was a scholar who taught writing at Eton School, and through Benjamin's connections...Oughtred was educated as a king's scholar at Eton. At age 15 he entered King's College...
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music, development of
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
...pattern to repetitions of a plainsong melody) are also employed. Around 1500 the Eton Choirbook, a collection of polyphonic antiphons and Magnificats for the chapel at Eton College, looms large in every sense, as its 23-inch by 17-inch format...
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public schools
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
...and for the sons of noblemen. This included such schools as Eton and Winchester . By the 18th cent. a number of ‘Great...investigate conditions in the nine large public schools Winchester, Eton, Westminster, Charterhouse, Harrow, Rugby, Shrewsbury...
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Gray, Thomas
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Gray, Thomas (1716–71), educated at Eton, with Horace Walpole , and at Peterhouse, Cambridge. He...and his first odes, including Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College (1747), the first of his works to appear in print...
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Udall, Nicholas
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
...Nicholas (1505–56), English scholar, headmaster in turn of Eton and Westminster, and the author of Ralph Roister Doister. Written while he was at Eton for performance by the boys in place of the usual Latin comedy, it was probably...
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Public Schools: Britain
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society
...either as the "Great Nine" (Winchester [founded in 1382], Eton [1440], St. Paul's [1509], Shrewsbury [1552], Westminster...school regime are not hard to find. In the early 1800s, in an Eton governed by the formidable Dr. Keate, famed for flogging eighty...
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John Harington
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...s court. Harington received his first formal education at Eton, where he studied under William Wickham, who later became the...brilliant career at Court. Harington had a thorough education at Eton and Cambridge, good family connections, and a ready and amusing...
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John Montagu, Fourth Earl of Sandwich
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...estates. His mother appears to have abandoned John and sent him to Eton at the age of seven. She remarried when he was nine and he and...and emerged as head of the fifth form in 1732. When he left Eton he had a thorough knowledge of Latin and a working knowledge...
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