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Cornforth
Cornforth is a village in County Durham, England. It is adjacent to the village of West Cornforth, situated a short distance to the north-east of Ferryhill. Before the middle part of the Victorian era, when coal mining was at its height in County Durham, Cornforth was in the parish of Bishop Middleham. Thomas Hutchinson (bap. 1698, d. 1769) was a classical scholar A scholar is a person who pursues academic and intellectual activities, particularly academics who apply their intellectualism into expertise in an area of study. A scholar can also be an academic, who works as a professor, teacher, or research ..., born in Cornforth and baptised there on 17 May 1698. References * External links West Cornforth Village Website Villages in County Durham {{Durham-geo-stub ...
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Cornforth is a village in County Durham, England. It is adjacent to the village of West Cornforth, situated a short distance to the north-east of Ferryhill. Before the middle part of the Victorian era, when coal mining was at its height in County Durham, Cornforth was in the parish of Bishop Middleham. Thomas Hutchinson (bap. 1698, d. 1769) was a classical scholar A scholar is a person who pursues academic and intellectual activities, particularly academics who apply their intellectualism into expertise in an area of study. A scholar can also be an academic, who works as a professor, teacher, or researche ..., born in Cornforth and baptised there on 17 May 1698. References * External links West Cornforth Village Website Villages in County Durham {{Durham-geo-stub ...
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West Cornforth
West Cornforth is a village in County Durham, in England. It is situated to the south of Cornforth, near the A1(M) motorway, Coxhoe, Ferryhill and Spennymoor. It is known locally as “Doggie” though the etymology of this name is uncertain. It may, however, relate to the fact that dog irons were made there at one time. The village was recently awarded 'Calor Durham Village of the Year'. As of 2011, the village had a population of 2,501. The village dates back to 1857 and grew in size in conjunction with the local coal mine, Thrislington Colliery (now Thrislington Quarry), up until its closure in 1967. It received rail service through West Cornforth railway station up until 1952. Notable people * Sir Moir Lockhead OBE, DHC (born 1945), businessman, was educated at West Cornforth Secondary Modern. NB West Cornforth school used to be an Infants School, Junior Mixed, then Senior School with pupils a School Leavers Certificate at age 15 years. All pupils would sit an 11 Plus ...
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Sedgefield (UK Parliament Constituency)
Sedgefield is a Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, constituency in County Durham represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, UK Parliament since 2019 United Kingdom general election, 2019 by Paul Howell (MP), Paul Howell of the Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party. It elects one Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. History 1918–1974 Sedgefield was first created under the Representation of the People Act 1918 for the 1918 United Kingdom general election, 1918 general election, comprising primarily southern parts of the abolished South East Durham (UK Parliament constituency), South Eastern Division of Durham, including the communities of Sedgefield, Segefield and Billingham. It also included parts of the former Mid Durham (UK Parliament constituency), Mid Durham seat (Ferryhill) and a small area transfe ...
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Thomas Hutchinson (scholar)
Thomas Hutchinson (bap. 1698, d. 1769) was an English clergyman and classical scholar. Life The son of Peter Hutchinson of Cornforth, in the parish of Bishop Middleham, Sedgefield, County Durham, he was baptised there on 17 May 1698. He matriculated at Lincoln College, Oxford, on 28 March 1715, and graduated B.A. 1718, M.A. 1721, B.D. (from Hart Hall) 1733, and D.D. 1738. In 1731 he was appointed rector of Lyndon, Rutland, having acquired a reputation as a scholar by the publication of an edition of Xenophon's ''Cyropaedia'' (1727). Thomas Herring, Archbishop of Canterbury, presented him to the vicarage of Horsham, Sussex, in 1748, and he held also the rectory of Cocking in the same county, and a prebendal stall in Chichester Cathedral. Dying at Horsham, he was buried there on 7 February 1769. Works He published several sermons and an essay on demoniacal possession Spirit possession is an unusual or altered state of consciousness and associated behaviors purportedly ca ...
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County Durham
County Durham ( ), officially simply Durham,UK General Acts 1997 c. 23Lieutenancies Act 1997 Schedule 1(3). From legislation.gov.uk, retrieved 6 April 2022. is a ceremonial county in North East England.North East Assembly �About North East England. Retrieved 30 November 2007. The ceremonial county spawned from the historic County Palatine of Durham in 1853. In 1996, the county gained part of the abolished ceremonial county of Cleveland.Lieutenancies Act 1997
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Ferryhill
Ferryhill is a town in County Durham, England, with an estimated population in 2018 of 9,362. The town grew in the 1900s around the coal mining industry. The last mine officially closed in 1968. It is located between the towns of Bishop Auckland, Newton Aycliffe, Sedgefield, Shildon, Spennymoor and the cathedral city of Durham. Geography Ferryhill sits on the western edge of the Ferryhill Gap, a natural gateway in limestone escarpment that outcrops on the Eastern Durham Plateau. The main settlement lies along the 'SW-NE' ridge, with later developments made to the south of the ridge. Ferryhill lies on the medieval Great North Road, which used to be the A1. It was bypassed when the Ferryhill Cut was excavated in 1923. The road is now the A167, which leads to Durham and Newcastle-upon-Tyne to the North, and to Darlington in the south. Ferryhill Carrs is a Site of Special Scientific Interest and designated Local Nature Reserve at the Eastern edge of the town. Section ...
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Classics
Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, classics traditionally refers to the study of Classical Greek and Roman literature and their related original languages, Ancient Greek and Latin. Classics also includes Greco-Roman philosophy, history, archaeology, anthropology, art, mythology and society as secondary subjects. In Western civilization, the study of the Greek and Roman classics was traditionally considered to be the foundation of the humanities, and has, therefore, traditionally been the cornerstone of a typical elite European education. Etymology The word ''classics'' is derived from the Latin adjective '' classicus'', meaning "belonging to the highest class of citizens." The word was originally used to describe the members of the Patricians, the highest class in ancient Rome. By the 2nd century AD the word was used in literary criticism to describe writers of the highest quality. For example, Aulus Gellius, in his ''Att ...
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Scholar
A scholar is a person who pursues academic and intellectual activities, particularly academics who apply their intellectualism into expertise in an area of study. A scholar can also be an academic, who works as a professor, teacher, or researcher at a university. An academic usually holds an advanced degree or a terminal degree, such as a master's degree or a doctorate (PhD). Independent scholars, such as philosophers and public intellectuals, work outside of the academy, yet publish in academic journals and participate in scholarly public discussion. Definitions In contemporary English usage, the term ''scholar'' sometimes is equivalent to the term ''academic'', and describes a university-educated individual who has achieved intellectual mastery of an academic discipline, as instructor and as researcher. Moreover, before the establishment of universities, the term ''scholar'' identified and described an intellectual person whose primary occupation was professional research. ...
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