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  • remained on military reserve lists until 1965. Instead he returned to schoolmastering, teaching French and geography at Scarborough College and coaching...
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    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...
    29 KB (3,691 words) - 15:46, 26 January 2024
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    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...
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  • clerical work proved distasteful, and he gave himself entirely to schoolmastering. In 1865 he became mathematical and modern form master at Leamington...
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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...
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  • of Fenstanton, Huntingdonshire. A move to Dacre, where he "took up schoolmastering", had failed to improve his fortunes. Alfred had one sister. He was...
    27 KB (3,628 words) - 21:44, 13 April 2024
  • 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...
    2 KB (233 words) - 21:59, 23 October 2023
  • ministry by the bishop for reasons which remain unclear. He turned to schoolmastering, for which he quickly demonstrated a remarkable aptitude He taught...
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    educated at the Free School at Wragby in Lincolnshire. He took up schoolmastering and in 1790 was appointed to a school at Louth that had been established...
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    generous gifts and hospitality, but as with the favourites from his Eton schoolmastering days, they were liable to be dropped without ceremony when Browning...
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    seasons, and then retired from cricket to concentrate full-time on schoolmastering and developing his school at Millfield. Meyer was unpredictable in...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
    10 KB (867 words) - 14:19, 25 January 2024
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    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...
    41 KB (5,399 words) - 17:56, 5 August 2023