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Thierry began life as a journalist (after an essay, like his brother, at schoolmastering). Connected with the romantic harbinger Globe, he obtained a small...

Books, Perseus Books Group, p. 142 Schama observes that "he had found schoolmastering too humdrum, Yale too sober, and a chaplaincy to a Massachusetts regiment...

remained on military reserve lists until 1965. Instead he returned to schoolmastering, teaching French and geography at Scarborough College and coaching...

almost another brother. She urged him not to drift into a lifetime of schoolmastering, and he concluded that his future lay in singing. He later said that...

of Fenstanton, Huntingdonshire. A move to Dacre, where he "took up schoolmastering", had failed to improve his fortunes. Alfred had one sister. He was...

ministry by the bishop for reasons which remain unclear. He turned to schoolmastering, for which he quickly demonstrated a remarkable aptitude He taught...

author's childhood and education at Marlborough College before he began a schoolmastering career at Wellington College in 1929. The frank accounts of many of...

generous gifts and hospitality, but as with the favourites from his Eton schoolmastering days, they were liable to be dropped without ceremony when Browning...

ones. He had not had much chance to witness the travail with which schoolmastering was beset. (p. 571, referring to Johnson's account of attending school...

the end of the season other amateurs appeared after fulfilling their schoolmastering commitments, and Skinner did not play in the last few matches of the...

clerical work proved distasteful, and he gave himself entirely to schoolmastering. In 1865 he became mathematical and modern form master at Leamington...

uneventful, and from the fact that he seldom, if ever, alludes to schoolmastering in his subsequent writing, it may not have been to his taste. He began...

seasons, and then retired from cricket to concentrate full-time on schoolmastering and developing his school at Millfield. Meyer was unpredictable in...

performance. But in 1963, with arthritis affecting his spinning and his schoolmastering duties increasing, he played only twice and in 1964 not at all. Then...

which the eldest was a civil servant clerk, and Sturman was still schoolmastering, although they had moved out of the school and were living at 68 Upper...