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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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Eton
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Eton , town (1991 pop. 3,559), Windsor...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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King's College chapel
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
King's College chapel (Cambridge). Eton and King's College, Cambridge, were founded by Henry VI to celebrate his...and civil war at home. King's began in 1441 as the College of Our Lady and St Nicholas and the name was changed...
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William Oughtred
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Environment Oughtred was born in Eton, Buckinghamshire, England...scholar who taught writing at Eton School, and through Benjamin...educated as a king's scholar at Eton. At age 15 he entered King's College of Cambridge University and...
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William Ralph Inge
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...later provost of Worcester College, Oxford. Inge was educated...his parents until he entered Eton on a scholarship. In 1879 he went up to King's College, Cambridge, where he won...classical tripos and returned to Eton in 1884, where he served...
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John Harington
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...his first formal education at Eton, where he studied under William...enough to matriculate at King's College, Cambridge, in 1576, earning...his graduation from King's College, Harington entered Lincoln...had a thorough education at Eton and Cambridge, good family...
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Henry VI
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
...lieutenant, devoting himself to the foundation of Eton College . Within ten years the government of the kingdom...promotion of education (through the foundations of Eton and King's College , Cambridge), might have been more highly regarded...
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patronage, artistic
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
...rebuilt it, and Henry VII added the east chapel; Henry VI endowed Eton College, Christ's College and King's College, Cambridge. Many of the Oxford and Cambridge colleges were founded by clerics: Peterhouse, Cambridge, by Hugh de Balsham...
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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...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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music, development of
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
...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...
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