Abraham Colfe (7 Aug 1580 – 5 Dec 1657) was vicar of Lewisham from 1610 to 1657 and a notable English philanthropist, founding Colfe's School, a reading...
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Colfe may refer to: Colfe's School, Greenwich, England Abraham Colfe (died 1657), English vicar Isaac Colfe (died 1597), English divine Colfer, a surname...
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by Elizabeth I in 1574. Abraham Colfe became a governor in 1613 and the school was re-founded bearing his name in 1652. Colfe declared that the aim of...
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Almantius, or Aymon Colfe and his wife, Catherine Bradfield, and uncle of Abraham Colfe. He was born in Canterbury in or before 1560. His father and mother...
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many privileges. In the mid-17th century, the then vicar of Lewisham, Abraham Colfe, built a grammar school, a primary school and six almshouses for the...
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Confirmation of the Enclosure and Improvement of Malverne Chace. Settling Abraham Colfe's charitable gift for erecting and endowing two free schools and an almshouse...
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British Library) and, as the Leathersellers' Company requested in 1831, Abraham Colfe's grammar school library. From 1831 to 1833, Black worked in Oxford,...
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Appendix 71. Retrieved 30 June 2012. grammar Larminie, Vivienne. "Colfe, Abraham". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University...
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F. L. Lucas (category People educated at Colfe's School)
(OBE). F. L. ("Peter") Lucas grew up in Blackheath and was educated at Colfe's (1902–1909), where his father F. W. Lucas (1860–1931) was headmaster, and...
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(Mewhinney Township, Cochrane District) Colenso Lake Coles Lake Colette Lake Colfe Lake Colgrove Lake Coli Lake Colin Lake (Rainy River District) Colin Lake...
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