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George Andrew Jacob
George Andrew Jacob (16 December 1807 – 7 May 1896) was an English clergyman and schoolmaster and author of many books about education and Christianity. Biography Jacob was born at Exmouth, Devon, on 16 December 1807, where his father the Reverend Stephen Long Jacob was incumbent. His mother was Susanna, daughter of the Reverend James Bond of Ashford, Kent, England. His younger brother General John Jacob was an Indian Army Officer who created Jacob's Horse and was accorded almost mythical status in Sind Province. Jacob was headmaster of Bromsgrove Grammar School (1832–1842), a principal of the Collegiate School in Sheffield (1843–1853) and headmaster of Christ's Hospital, then in the city of London, from 1853 until his resignation from that post in 1868. In 1846, he became a member of the College of Preceptors, then a relatively new institution, President of the same 1853–1856 and Dean thereof 1859–1873. In his career, he published many educational and religious book ...
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Exmouth
Exmouth is a harbor, port town, civil parishes in England, civil parish and seaside resort situated on the east bank of the mouth of the River Exe, southeast of Exeter. In 2011 it had a population of 34,432, making Exmouth the List of settlements in Devon by population, 5th most populous settlement in Devon. History Byzantine coinage, Byzantine coins bearing the mark of Anastasius I (emperor), Anastasius I, dating from around 498–518, were found on the beach in 1970. Evidence of people living at Exmouth Point goes back to the 11th century,The route book of Devon, Publisher Besley, 1870, Publisher: Oxford University when it was called Lydwicnaesse, meaning "the point of the Bretons". The two ecclesiastical parishes that now make up Exmouth – Littleham, Exmouth, Littleham and Withycombe Raleigh – can be traced back to before Saxon times. The name "Exmouth" comes from its position at the mouth of the River Exe estuary. The word "Exe" itself comes from an old Celtic word ...
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John Jacob (soldier)
John Jacob may refer to: * John Jacob, Marquis of Montferrat (1395–1445) * Sir John Jacob, 1st Baronet (c. 1597–1666), royalist MP in England * Sir John Jacob, 2nd Baronet of Bromley (c. 1633–1674), his son, of the Jacob baronets * Sir John Jacob, 3rd Baronet of Bromley (c. 1665–1740), his son, of the Jacob baronets * John J. Jacob (Kentucky businessman) (1770–1852), Kentucky businessman, financier, and philanthropist * John Jacob (East India Company officer) (1812–1858), British officer and founder of Jacobabad in Pakistan * John J. Jacob (West Virginia politician) (1829–1893), Governor of West Virginia in the United States * John Jacob (Indiana politician), member of the Indiana House of Representatives * John Edward Jacob (born 1934), president of the National Urban League in the United States * John C. Jacob (1936–2008), environmental pioneer in Kerala, India * John P. Jacob (born 1957), American writer and curator * E. John Jacob, member of the Kerala Legisla ...
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Sheffield Collegiate School
Sheffield Collegiate School began in 1836 in new buildings on the corner of Ecclesall Road and Collegiate Crescent (now Grade II listed and part of Sheffield Hallam University). The school enjoyed academic success but lacked sound finances and was taken over by Sheffield Grammar School in 1884, to become Sheffield Royal Grammar School (SRGS) in 1885. In 1905 Sheffield City Council acquired both Wesley College, Sheffield, Wesley College and SRGS and they were merged on the site of the former to form King Edward VII School (Sheffield), King Edward VII School (KES), named after the reigning monarch. Headmasters of Sheffield Collegiate School Notable alumni of Sheffield Collegiate School * John Cordeaux (ornithologist), John Cordeaux (1831–1899) – ornithologist * Nathaniel Creswick (1826–1917) – co-founder of Sheffield F.C. and the Sheffield Rules * Henry Jackson (classicist), Henry Jackson (1839–1921) – Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge * ...
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Christ's Hospital
Christ's Hospital is a Public school (United Kingdom), public school (English Private schools in the United Kingdom, fee-charging boarding school for pupils aged 11–18) with a royal charter, located to the south of Horsham in West Sussex. The school was founded in 1552 and the royal charter granted in 1553 (26 June, 7 Edw. VI). Since its establishment, Christ's Hospital has been a charity school, with a core aim to offer children from disadvantaged backgrounds the chance of a better education. Charitable foundation Christ's Hospital is unusual among British independent schools in that the majority of the students receive bursaries. This stems from its founding charter as a charitable school. School fees are paid on a Means test, means-tested basis, with substantial subsidies paid by the school or their benefactors, so that pupils from all walks of life are able to have private education that would otherwise be beyond the means of their parents. The trustees of the foundatio ...
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Alaric Jacob
Harold Alaric Jacob (8 June 1909 – 26 January 1995) was an English writer and journalist. He was a Reuters correspondent in Washington in the 1930s and a war correspondent during World War II in North Africa, Burma and Moscow. Early life Alaric Jacob was the son of Ellen Hoyer, the daughter of a Danish missionary, and Lieutenant-Colonel Harold Fenton Jacob, a member of the Indian Army and former Political Resident, political agent in Aden. Jacob was born in Edinburgh and brought up in Scotland. As a child, he spent time in India and Arabia, but was educated in England. He was a childhood friend of Soviet spy Kim Philby. Jacob developed a stammer, which he believed came from his association with Philby. This was managed over time by singing lessons.Alaric Jacob ''Sharing Orwell's Joys – but not his fears'' in Christopher Norris ''Inside the Myth'' Lawrence and Wishart 1984 Like several other promising children from Anglo-Indian or military families, Jacob attended St Cyprian ...
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1807 Births
Events January–March *January 7 – The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland issues an Order in Council prohibiting British ships from trading with France or its allies. *January 20 – The Sierra Leone Company, faced with bankruptcy because of the imminent abolition of the slave trade in British colonies, petitions the British government for purchase and transfer of its property to the Crown; Parliament approves the transfer on July 29, and it takes effect on January 1, 1808. *February 3 – Napoleonic Wars and Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Montevideo – The British Army captures Montevideo from the Spanish Empire, as part of the British invasions of the Río de la Plata. *February 7 – Napoleon leads the forces of the French Empire in an invasion of the Russian Empire, and begins fighting at the Battle of Eylau against Russian and Prussian forces. *February 8 – Battle of Eylau: Napoleon fights a hard but inconclusive battle against the Russians un ...
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1896 Deaths
Events January * January 2 – The Jameson Raid comes to an end as Jameson surrenders to the Boers. * January 4 – Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state. * January 5 – An Austrian newspaper reports Wilhelm Röntgen's discovery, last November, of a type of electromagnetic radiation, later known as X-rays. * January 6 – Cecil Rhodes is forced to resign as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony, Cape of Good Hope for his involvement in the Jameson Raid. * January 7 – American culinary expert Fannie Farmer publishes her first cookbook. * January 12 – H. L. Smith takes the first X-ray photograph. * January 16 – Devonport High School for Boys is founded in Plymouth (England). * January 17 – Anglo-Ashanti wars#Fourth Anglo-Ashanti War (1895–1896), Fourth Anglo-Ashanti War: British British Army, redcoats enter the Ashanti people, Ashanti capital, Kumasi, and Asantehene Agyeman Prempeh I is deposed. * January 28 – Walter Arnold, of E ...
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Heads Of Schools In England
A head is the part of an organism which usually includes the ears, brain, forehead, cheeks, chin, eyes, nose, and mouth, each of which aid in various sensory functions such as sight, hearing, smell, and taste. Some very simple animals may not have a head, but many bilaterally symmetric forms do, regardless of size. Heads develop in animals by an evolutionary trend known as cephalization. In bilaterally symmetrical animals, nervous tissue concentrate at the anterior region, forming structures responsible for information processing. Through biological evolution, sense organs and feeding structures also concentrate into the anterior region; these collectively form the head. Human head The human head is an anatomical unit that consists of the skull, hyoid bone and cervical vertebrae. The skull consists of the brain case which encloses the cranial cavity, and the facial skeleton, which includes the mandible. There are eight bones in the brain case and fourteen in the f ...
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19th-century English Anglican Priests
The 19th century began on 1 January 1801 (represented by the Roman numerals MDCCCI), and ended on 31 December 1900 (MCM). It was the 9th century of the 2nd millennium. It was characterized by vast social upheaval. Slavery was abolished in much of Europe and the Americas. The First Industrial Revolution, though it began in the late 18th century, expanded beyond its British homeland for the first time during the 19th century, particularly remaking the economies and societies of the Low Countries, France, the Rhineland, Northern Italy, and the Northeastern United States. A few decades later, the Second Industrial Revolution led to ever more massive urbanization and much higher levels of productivity, profit, and prosperity, a pattern that continued into the 20th century. The Catholic Church, in response to the growing influence and power of modernism, secularism and materialism, formed the First Vatican Council in the late 19th century to deal with such problems and confirm ce ...
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