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    Joseph Wood MVO (1841 – 19 June 1923) was an English clergyman and schoolmaster, headmaster successively of Leamington College, Tonbridge School, and...
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  • American painter Joseph Wood (Wisconsin politician) (1809–1890), American pioneer and Wisconsin state legislator Joseph Wood (schoolmaster) (1841–1923),...
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    Barnes, 1801–1886, the Schoolmaster: A Study of Education in the Life and Work of the Dorset Poet (Friary Press, 1966), p. 205: "Joseph Clark, who came from...
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    Joseph Haydn was a prolific composer of the classical period. He is regarded as the "father of the symphony" and the "father of the string quartet" for...
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    earthly father. Joseph drills a piece of wood with an auger. The shape of the auger reflects the shape of the Cross and the geometry of the wood arrayed on...
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    the Marblehead Academy until the fall of 1794, where he was taught by schoolmaster William Harris, later president of Columbia University. At Marblehead...
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    Shakespeare had been a country schoolmaster. Some 20th-century scholars suggested that Shakespeare may have been employed as a schoolmaster by Alexander Hoghton...
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    priorities in Nauvoo. Richards and Phelps remembered that he once asked the schoolmaster of a nearby class to change locations because noise from the students...
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    Fendi was born in Vienna on 4 September, 1796, to Joseph and Elizabeth Fendi. His father was a schoolmaster. He fell from a changing table as an infant, an...
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    Dorset-born barrister who worked to supplement his income as an assistant schoolmaster in Blackheath, London, until his dismissal shortly before his suicide...
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    Poe's first cousin Elizabeth Herring and her husband, and former schoolmaster Joseph Clarke. The entire ceremony lasted only three minutes in the cold...
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    about 1700 was made a Schoolmaster's House in 1745, and next to it the Boys' School was built in 1748. From 1752 the Schoolmaster's House became Law's Library...
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  • Mathias Haydn (category Joseph Haydn)
    Since his father and the schoolmaster were close friends, it was natural for the latter to be drawn into consultation over Josephs's artistic destiny. The...
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    village school, but following a disagreement between his father and the schoolmaster, he was briefly educated at home. In 1869, when Steiner was eight years...
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    him to adopt writing as his full-time occupation. While employed as a schoolmaster and with the encouragement of Arthur Henry Bullen of the Shakespeare...
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    Mary Anning (redirect from Joseph Anning)
    Round in 1865, and its Attribution to Henry Stuart Fagan (1827–1890), Schoolmaster, Parson, and Author. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History & Archaeological...
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  •  1956 (1956-09-30) After his severely disturbed daughter Millie (Purdom) kills a schoolmaster, Mr. Withers, who had been sheltering in the family barn from the heavy...
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    James Gordon Bennett Sr. (category Burials at Green-Wood Cemetery)
    they landed in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where Bennett briefly worked as a schoolmaster till he had enough money to sail south to Portland, Maine, where he again...
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  • stars: Michael Fox, Johnny Carpenter 76 36 "The Hangman" Joseph H. Lewis Teddi Sherman & Ward Wood May 31, 1960 (1960-05-31) An ex-convict (Whit Bissell)...
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    commanded that he remain in school. Deacon Adams hired a new schoolmaster named Joseph Marsh, and his son responded positively. Adams later noted that...
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    columns at both sides of the panel had precedents in Flemish portraiture." Woods-Marsden cites Hans Memling's portrait of Benedetto Portinari (1487) or Italian...
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    The Reverend Joseph Butterworth Owen (22 July 1809 - 24 May 1872) was an English clergyman, social reformer and author of the nineteenth century. Known...
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    Reginald Bosworth Smith (1839–1908) was an English academic, schoolmaster, man of letters and author. Born on 28 June 1839 at West Stafford rectory, Dorset...
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    The Science of Life A Short History of the World The Story of a Great Schoolmaster This Misery of Boots Travels of a Republican Radical in Search of Hot...
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    Flesh white, firm, aromatic, subacid. Eating, Juice Use December - March Schoolmaster Lincolnshire, England 1855, introduced 1882 A fine cooking apple. FCC...
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    and schoolmaster in Worcester. He served for 38 years Headmaster at The King's School, Worcester, and is mentioned by Thomas Fuller and Anthony Wood as...
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    (born 1998), American football player Elijah Corlet (1610–1687), English schoolmaster Elijah Albert Cox (1876–1955), British painter Elijah Craig (1738–1808)...
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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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    Alpert thought "a difficult composition". He requested the help of his schoolmaster, Philip Burton, but his voice cracked during their practice sessions...
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    father in after he returns from his sleep. Derrick Van Bummel – The local schoolmaster who went on to serve in the American Revolution as a flag officer and...
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