• Australian professor of geography John Holmes (schoolmaster) (1703–1760), English schoolmaster John Clough Holmes (1809–1887), American merchant; Agricultural...
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  • John Holmes (1703 – 22 December 1760 in Holt, Norfolk) was an 18th-century schoolmaster and writer on education, Master of Gresham's School in Norfolk...
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  • actor, known for playing Dr. John Watson in the initial series of Granada Television's 1980s The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, which starred Jeremy Brett...
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    father commanded that he remain in school. Deacon Adams hired a new schoolmaster named Joseph Marsh, and his son responded positively. Adams later noted...
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    studying Latin, the works of Euclid, and algebra, and was appointed schoolmaster to the younger children of the family. His main reading was still history...
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    Quarterly 5.4 (1941): 579–589 online. Sullivan, Dolores P. William Holmes McGuffey: Schoolmaster to the Nation (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1994)....
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    Jeremiah Holmes Wiffen (30 December 1792 – 2 May 1836) was an English poet and writer, known as translator of Torquato Tasso. The eldest son of John Wiffen...
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    at which he was bullied and physically abused by classmates and the schoolmaster. To reduce his mother's financial burden, Neal left school and home at...
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    Professor Moriarty in other media (category Works based on Sherlock Holmes)
    mother, who was his lover. In Young Sherlock Holmes (1985), Anthony Higgins plays Holmes' schoolmaster, Rathe, who turns out to be an evil Egyptian mastermind...
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    where he wrote and studied nature. In his honor, this area is now called Schoolmaster Hill in Boston's Franklin Park. In 1826, faced with poor health, Emerson...
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    University of Oxford. After graduating, he was employed as an assistant schoolmaster at a boarding school and pursued a parallel career in the law, qualifying...
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  • English schoolmaster and tutor, known as a mathematical writer. Born at Derby in 1790, he was the son of Matthew Spencer (1762–1827), schoolmaster at Derby...
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    Surrey, England, on 26 July 1894. He was the third son of the writer and schoolmaster Leonard Huxley, who edited The Cornhill Magazine, and his first wife...
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    John Leverett (August 25, 1662 – May 3, 1724) was an early Anglo-American lawyer, politician, educator, and President of Harvard College. Leverett was...
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    Montague John Druitt (15 August 1857 – early December 1888) was a Dorset-born barrister who worked to supplement his income as an assistant schoolmaster in...
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    heavily in the Beatles' lives at that time ... they knew that I, in my schoolmasterly role, didn't approve ... Not only was I not into it myself, I couldn't...
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    of O'Reilly's classmates lost their lives because of it. The son of a schoolmaster, O'Reilly received a good early education. When he was about thirteen...
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  • United States International: Lists of serial killers Ronald M. Holmes; Stephen T. Holmes (1998). Contemporary Perspectives on Serial Murder. SAGE Publications...
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    whom some at the time attributed Kirkland's resignation. Oliver Wendell Holmes describes him thus, in his study of Ralph Waldo Emerson: "His 'shining morning...
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  • Lützelburg Du bist die Welt für mich [de] (1953) – Fritz The Country Schoolmaster (1954) – Heinrich Heinsius Emil and the Detectives (1954) – Oberwachtmeister...
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  • Orator The Old Curiosity Shop (1979) as The Schoolmaster Gandhi (1982) as Clerk of Court Young Sherlock Holmes (1985) as Master Snelgrove "Brian Oulton"...
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    Tapes, a pilot for an unproduced TV series, and portrayed a suspicious schoolmaster in the TV movie Satan's School for Girls. He appeared in the disaster...
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    of Massachusetts. He settled there with his family in 1784. A local schoolmaster gave him all the support he needed to catch up on his schooling quickly...
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  • Diana DiMarzio, David Garrison, Michelle Veintimilla and Rick Holmes, with direction by John Doyle and choreography by Graciela Daniele. Music direction...
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  • English aeronaut George Ferris Whidborne Mortimer (1805–1871), English schoolmaster and divine Ian Mortimer (born 1983), Canadian sprint canoeist Ian Mortimer...
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    Advanced Classes: "The Little Hero of Haarlem" In 1858, The Rhode Island Schoolmaster: "The Boy at the Dike" In 1858/1859, Sargent's School Monthly: "The Boy...
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  • poet (born 1809) July 6 – Alexander Jamieson, Scottish textbook writer, schoolmaster and rhetorician (born 1782) July 14 – August Neander, German theologian...
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  • institution focused on the provision of evening classes. He was awarded a Schoolmaster Fellowship at Balliol College Oxford, before becoming visiting professor...
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    Francis Seymor his . . . Speech, 1641. Holmes, John. A Descriptive Catalogue of Books, in the Library of John Holmes, F.S.A. p. 309. Foster 2013, p. 40....
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    Frank Holmes Tyson (6 June 1930 – 27 September 2015) was an England international cricketer of the 1950s, who also worked as a schoolmaster, journalist...
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