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    A schoolmaster, or simply master, is a male school teacher. The usage first occurred in England in the Late Middle Ages and early modern period. At that...
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  • The Country Schoolmaster may refer to: The Country Schoolmaster (1933 film), a 1933 German drama film The Country Schoolmaster (1954 film), a 1954 West...
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    magister, also known as the magister armhook squid, commander squid or schoolmaster gonate squid, is a medium-sized squid in the family Gonatidae. It is...
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  • The Hoosier Schoolmaster may refer to: The Hoosier Schoolmaster (novel), an 1871 novel by Edward Eggleston The Hoosier Schoolmaster (1914 film), an American...
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    The schoolmaster snapper (Lutjanus apodus), is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a snapper belonging to the family Lutjanidae. It is found in the western...
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  • Frederick Turner (27 October 1910 – 2001) was an English Jesuit priest, archivist, librarian and headmaster at Stonyhurst College. Frederick Joseph Turner...
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  • Police ranks are a system of hierarchical relationships in police organisations. The rank system defines authority and responsibility in a police organisation...
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  • The Schoolmaster's Assistant, Being a Compendium of Arithmetic both Practical and Theoretical was an early and popular English arithmetic textbook, written...
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  • William Erskine (died 1685), was master of Charterhouse Hospital. Erskine was the seventh son of John Erskine, Earl of Mar, by his second wife, Lady Mary...
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  • David James Christian Faber (born 7 July 1961) is a schoolmaster and former Conservative member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. He did not seek...
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  • The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation is a 1987 book by philosopher Jacques Rancière on the role of the teacher and individual...
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  • "The Village Schoolmaster", or "The Giant Mole" ("Der Dorfschullehrer" or "Der Riesenmaulwurf") is an unfinished short story by Franz Kafka. The story...
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    James Hodgson (1672–1755) was an English astronomer, mathematical teacher, lecturer and writer. The nephew of Christopher Wren, Hodgson was an assistant...
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  • Thomas Godwyn D.D. (1587–20 March 1642) was an English headmaster and scholar. He was the second son of Anthony Godwyn of Wookey, Somerset. He entered...
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  • James William Dyson (29 June 1875 – 6 March 1965) was an English schoolmaster whose subject was maths. After teaching at schools in Faversham and Wellingborough...
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    The Ideal Schoolmaster (Czech: Kantor Ideál) is a 1932 Czech comedy film directed by Martin Frič. Karel Lamač as Karel Suchý, professor Anny Ondra as Vera...
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    Deptford, then in Kent, 28 December 1817) was an English classical scholar, schoolmaster, clergyman and chaplain to George III. He kept a school for boys in Hammersmith...
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    rhythm of the second movement calls to mind the wagging finger of a schoolmaster, and points out that in the catalog of his works that Haydn helped prepare...
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    January 1774 – 4 December 1839) was an English classical scholar and schoolmaster of Shrewsbury School, and Bishop of Lichfield. His grandson was Samuel...
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  • John Proctor (1521–1558) was an English academic and schoolmaster, known as a historian. A native of Somerset, Proctor was elected scholar of Corpus Christi...
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  • The English Schoole-Maister: Teaching all his schollers, the order of distinct reading, and true writing our English tongue is an English dictionary compiled...
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    George Butler (11 June 1819 – 14 March 1890) was an English divine and schoolmaster who was Principal of Liverpool College and later canon of Winchester...
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  • Abraham Shackelton (1696–1771) was a Quaker schoolmaster. Born in West Yorkshire, he settled and established a school in Ballitore, County Kildare, Ireland...
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  • Andrew Henderson (schoolmaster) (1797 – April 25, 1869) was a pioneering schoolmaster in Nova Scotia, Canada. He immigrated from Ireland into New Brunswick...
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    James Andrew, LL.D. (1774?–13 June 1833), was the principal of the East India Company's Military Seminary at Addiscombe, Surrey from 1809 to 1822. Andrew...
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    and in most adaptations, as a tall, lanky individual. He is the local schoolmaster, and strongly believes in all things supernatural, including the legend...
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    Ezekiel Cheever (1614–1708) was a schoolmaster, and the author of "probably the earliest American school book", Accidence, A Short Introduction to the...
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  • Douglas Robert Kenneth Robb (born 3 September 1970) is an English schoolmaster who is currently headmaster of Gresham's School. Before that, he was a housemaster...
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  • self-teaching) is the practice of education without the guidance of schoolmasters (i.e., teachers, professors, institutions). Autodidacts are self-taught...
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  • Francis Gregory (c.1625 – 1707) was an English divine and schoolmaster. Gregory, born about 1625, was a native of Woodstock, Oxfordshire. He was educated...
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