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 | 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... |
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... |
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 | Dorothy Brett | DB
's father, Reginald Baliol Brett
, became the second Viscount Esher after his father
's death in 1899. In his capacity as a peer and courtier, Reginald Regy Brett wore distinguished hats after being... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Brooke | She may have had a daughter, too, who died young. Jack received his BA from Trinity College
, Cambridge in 1780 and an MA in 1783. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. McMullen, Lorraine. An Odd Attempt in a Woman: The Literary Life of Frances Brooke. University of British Columbia Press, 1983. 122 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Menella Bute Smedley | MBS
's father, the Rev. Edward Smedley
, was a curate with an MA from Trinity College, Cambridge
. Allibone, S. Austin, editor. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased. Gale Research, 1965. 2123 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Colin Campbell | Lord Colin Campbell, born on 8 March 1853 to George Douglas Campbell
, eighth duke of Argyll, and his wife, born Lady Elizabeth Leveson-Gower
, Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under George Douglas Campbell “The Late Lord Colin Campbell”. The Scotsman, Scotsman Publications, 19 June 1895, p. 7. (19 June 1895): 7 |
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