Thomas Arnold
Thomas Arnold (June 13rd 1795 – June 12th 1842) celebrates teacher and historian. It was with the head of the Collège of Rugby of 1828 to 1841.
Biography
Wire of William Arnold, collector of the taxes, and Martha of Field, Thomas Arnold was born on the Island from Wight. It made its studies in Winchester School and Corpus Christi College in Oxford. There, he excelled in humanities and became member of Oriel College of Oxford in 1815. Its nomination with the head of the prestigious private school of the town of Rugby, after a few years as a tutor, marked a turning for the establishment. Its strength of character and its religious enthusiasm enabled him to make of it a model followed by the other private schools, exerting an influence without precedent on the education system of the country.It appears even in the novel Tom Brown' S Schooldays . It was implied in many controversies related on education or the religion. It was a man of the church deeply érastien and deeply opposed to the Church Anglican. In 1841, it is named Professor Royal of Modern history in Oxford. It was one of the victoriens éminients in the book of the same name written by Lytton Strachey. Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, one of its former students wrote his biography in 1844.
Its principal works are the Histoire of Rome , unfinished and made up of three volumes written between 1838 and 1842, and the Lectures of Modern history . It was carried by an angina pectoris whereas it enjoyed an influence unceasingly growing.
He married Mary Penrose, girl of the Reverend John Penrose de Penryn, in the Cornouailles. They had three girls and four wire, of which the poet Matthew Arnold, the academic Tom Arnold, and the writer William Delafield Arnold. The girl of Tom, Mary Augusta Arnold, became a famous novelist under her married name, Mrs. Humphry Ward. The other girl of Tom married Leonard Huxley, wire of Thomas Huxley. From their union were born two wire: Julian and Aldous Huxley.
References
- Rugby and the Myth of Thomas Arnold on Rugbyschool.net
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