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Provost Of Eton
The provost is the chairman of the governing body of Eton College. He is chosen by the Crown and is assisted by a vice-provost and ten fellows. Provosts of Eton 15th century *Henry Sever (1440–1442) *William Waynflete (1442–1447) * John Clerk (1447) * William Westbury (1447–1477)'' Thomas Barker'' (1447) 16th century * Henry Bost (1477–1504) *Roger Lupton (1504–1535) * Roger Aldrich (1535–1547) * Sir Thomas Smith (1547–1554) *Henry Cole (1554–1559) * William Bill (1559–1561)''Richard Bruerne'' (1561) * William Day (1561–1596) 17th century *Sir Henry Savile (1596–1622) *Sir Thomas Murray (1622–1623) *Sir Henry Wotton (1624–1639) * Richard Steward (1639–1644) *Francis Rous (1644–1659) * Nicholas Lockyer (1659–1660) *Nicholas Monck (1660–1661) * John Meredith (1662–1665) *Richard Allestree (1665–1680) *Zachary Cradock (1681–1695) 18th century *Henry Godolphin (1695&nd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eton College
Eton College ( ) is a Public school (United Kingdom), public school providing boarding school, boarding education for boys aged 13–18, in the small town of Eton, Berkshire, Eton, in Berkshire, in the United Kingdom. It has educated Prime Minister#History, prime ministers, world leaders, Nobel laureates, Academy Award and BAFTA award-winning actors, and generations of the aristocracy, and has been referred to as "the nurse of England's statesmen". The school is the largest boarding school in England, ahead of Millfield and Oundle School, Oundle. Together with Wellington College, Berkshire, Wellington College and Downe House School, it is one of three private schools in Berkshire to be named in the list of the world's best 100 private schools. Eton charges up to £52,749 per year (£17,583 per term, with three terms per academic year, for 2023/24). It was the sixth most expensive Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference boarding school in the UK in 2013–14. It was founded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Wotton
Sir Henry Wotton (; 30 March 1568 – December 1639) was an English author, diplomat and politician who sat in the House of Commons of England, House of Commons in 1614 and 1625. When on a mission to Augsburg in 1604, he famously said "An ambassador is an honest gentleman sent to lie abroad for the good of his country". Life The son of Thomas Wotton (sheriff), Thomas Wotton (1521–1587) and his second wife, Elionora Finch, Henry was the youngest brother of Edward Wotton, 1st Baron Wotton, Edward Wotton, and grandnephew of the diplomat Nicholas Wotton, Nicholas and Margaret Wotton, Marchioness of Dorset, Margaret Wotton. Henry was born at Boughton Place, Bocton Hall in the parish of Bocton or Boughton Malherbe, Kent. He was educated at Winchester College and at New College, Oxford, where he matriculated on 5 June 1584, alongside John Hoskins (poet), John Hoskins. Two years later, he moved to the Queen's College, Oxford, Queen's College, graduating in 1588. At Oxford, he was th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Davies (provost)
Jonathan Davies ( – 1809) was an English schoolmaster and Anglican priest, a Canon of Windsor from 1782 to 1791. Career He was educated at King's College, Cambridge, receiving an MA in 1736. He was appointed: * Headmaster of Eton College, Berkshire 1773–1792 *Rector of Scaldwell, Northamptonshire, 1774 *Provost of Eton College, 1791–1809 He was appointed to the eighth stall in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle in 1782 and held the canonry until 1791. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the Fellows of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural science, natural knowledge, incl ... in 1789. He died in 1809 and was buried at Eton College chapel. References 1809 deaths Canons of Windsor Alumni of King's College, Cambridge Head Masters of Eton College Year of birth unknown Fellows of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Hayward Roberts
William Hayward Roberts (baptised 1734 – 1791) was an English born schoolmaster, poet and biblical critic, cleric and Provost of Eton College. Life He was born in Gloucester, the third son of Richard Roberts of Abergavenny and his wife Eleanor. He was educated at Eton College, and elected to a scholarship at King's College, Cambridge. He was a Fellow of King's, from 1756 to 1761. He graduated B.A. in 1757, and became an assistant master at Eton in the same year. While William Hayley was at Eton his poetical aspirations were encouraged by Roberts, then an usher in the school. In 1760 Roberts commenced M.A., and in 1771 he was appointed to a fellowship at Eton College. He was created D.D. at Cambridge in 1773, was presented to the rectory of Everdon, Northamptonshire, in 1778, and was inducted to the rectory of Farnham Royal, Buckinghamshire, on 3 June 1779. After the death of Edward Barnard, Roberts was appointed Provost of Eton College on 12 December 1781. For many years he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Barnard (provost)
Edward Barnard (1717–1781) was an English cleric and academic, provost of Eton from 1764. Early life and education Barnard was second son of Rev. George Barnard, of Harpenden, Herts. Rector of Knebworth, 1737, and Luton, 1745–60. He was a foundation scholar at Eton College and, becoming superannuated, entered St John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1736, M.A. in 1742, B.D. in 1760 and D.D. in 1766. He was fellow of his college from March 1743–4 to 1766. In 1762 he was at Eton as tutor to Henry Townshend, brother to Lord Sydney, and he also became tutor to George Hardinge, afterwards Welsh justice, whose recollections of Barnard are given at length in Nichols's ''Anecdotes'' (viii. 543–554). Career Barnard succeeded John Sumner as head master of Eton in 1764 and raised the numbers of the school from three hundred to five hundred. He was appointed to a canonry of Windsor in 1761, and in 1764 became provost of Eton. He was also rector of St Paul's Cray ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Sleech
Stephen Sleech (died 8 October 1765) was an 18th-century Honorary Chaplain to the King who was Provost of Eton College from 1746 until his death. Sleech was the son of Richard Sleech, then teaching at Eton College (later a canon of St George's Chapel, Windsor).W. M. Jacob, 'Weston, Stephen (1665–1742)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 200accessed 2 July 2013/ref> He was born at Eton, and educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge, graduating BA in 1728, BD ('' per literas regias'') in 1743, DD in 1748. He became a Fellow of King's in 1726 and a Fellow of Eton in 1729, and received a Lambeth MA in 1729. He was Rector of Farnham Royal from 1730 to 1752; and then of Worplesdon, Surrey Surrey () is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Greater London to the northeast, Kent to the east, East Sussex, East and West Sussex to the south, and Hampshire and Berkshire to the wes ... fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Bland (priest)
Henry Bland (circa 1677 – 24 May 1746) was an English cleric. He was born around 1667 in Yorkshire and educated at Eton College and King's College, Cambridge. He was Rector of Great Bircham, Norfolk from 1706 to 1744 and of Harpley, Norfolk, 1715 to 1744; an Honorary Chaplain to the King and Chaplain to the Royal Chelsea Hospital from 1716; Headmaster of Doncaster School from 1699 to 1710 and then of Eton College from 1719; and Canon of Windsor from 1723 to 1733. In later life he was Dean of Durham from 1728 to 1746 and Provost of Eton College The provost is the chairman of the governing body of Eton College. He is chosen by the Crown and is assisted by a vice-provost and ten fellows. Provosts of Eton 15th century *Henry Sever (1440–1442) *William Waynflete (1442–1447) * John C ... from 1732 to 1746. He died on 24 May 1746. References Clergy from Yorkshire 1746 deaths Head Masters of Eton College People educated at Eton College Alumni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Godolphin
Henry Godolphin (1648–1733) was a Provost of Eton College and Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral in London – a position in which he clashed with Sir Christopher Wren in the period when the new cathedral had reached the finishing touches. Life He was born at Godolphin House, Cornwall, on 15 August 1648 as the fourth son of Sir Francis Godolphin, and younger brother of Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin, by Dorothy, second daughter of Sir Henry Berkeley of Yarlington, Somerset. He was admitted to Eton on 8 October 1665. He matriculated at Wadham College, Oxford on 30 August 1664, and took his Bachelors of Arts in 1668. In the same year, he was elected a fellow of All Souls' College, where he proceeded M.A. in 1672, and B.D. and D.D. on 11 July 1685. He was made a fellow of Eton College on 14 April 1677. By royal mandate, he was nominated Provost of the college on 16 October 1695, and was installed on 30 October. He was a benefactor to the college, contributing towards the ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zachary Cradock
Zachary Cradock (1633–1695) was a List of Provosts of Eton College, provost of Eton, and brother of Samuel Cradock. Early life His father was settled in Rutland. He was educated in Cambridge at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, Emmanuel College, and Queens' College, Cambridge, Queens' College, and elected fellow of the latter on 2 August 1654. Career In 1656 Ralph Cudworth recommended him to secretary John Thurloe as resident chaplain at Lisbon, and he held the post for several years. He became canon of Chichester at between 1669 and 1670, and fellow of Eton College in December 1671. He was also chaplain in ordinary to Charles II of England, Charles II. On 24 February 1680 he was elected provost of Eton, in succession to Richard Allestree and in opposition to Edmund Waller the poet, who, according to Anthony Wood (antiquary), Wood, ‘had tugged hard for it.’ In June 1695 it was reported that the Dean of Lincoln, deanery of Lincoln was offered him. He died in September 1695, and was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Allestree
Richard Allestree or Allestry ( ; 1621/22 – 28 January 1681) was an English Royalist churchman and provost of Eton College from 1665. Life The son of Robert Allestree, descended from an old Derbyshire family, he was born at Uppington in Shropshire. Although John Fell gave his birth date as March 1619, this conflicts with his college records. He was educated at the Free School, Coventry, and entered Christ Church, Oxford, under Richard Busby. He entered as a commoner in 1636, matriculating as a student on 17 February 1637 aged fifteen, and took the degree of B.A. in 1640 and that of M.A. in 1643. In 1642 he joined the king's army, under Sir John Byron. When the parliamentary forces arrived in Oxford, he hid the Christ Church valuables, and the soldiers found nothing in the treasury "except a single groat and a halter at the bottom of a large iron chest". Allestree escaped severe punishment only because the army hastily retreated from the town. He was present at the Bat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Meredith (provost)
John or Jack Meredith may refer to: * John A. Meredith (1814–1882), American politician and judge from Virginia * John Meredith (rugby union) (1863–1920), Welsh international rugby union player * John Meredith (general) (1864–1942), Australian Army brigadier-general in World War I * John Meredith (baseball), American baseball player * Jack Meredith (footballer) (1899–1970), English footballer * John Meredith (folklorist) John Stanley Raymond Meredith OAM (17 January 1920 – 18 February 2001) was an Australian pioneer Folkloristics, folklorist from Holbrook, New South Wales whose work influenced the Australian folk music revival of the 1950s, in particular as a ... (1920–2001), Australian folklorist * John Meredith (artist) (1933–2000), Canadian painter * John Meredith (footballer) (born 1940), English former professional footballer See also * John Meredith Temple (1910–1994), British Conservative MP * Jack Meredith (other) {{human name disa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Monck
Nicholas Monck (c. 1610 – 7 December 1661) was a Bishop of Hereford and Provost of Eton College, both royal appointments made by King Charles II following the 1660 Restoration of the Monarchy which was largely affected by his elder brother George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle (1608–1670), KG. Nicholas Monck was "a great assistant in the Restoration to his brother". Origins He was born in 1610 at Potheridge in the parish of Merton, Devonshire, the third son of Sir Thomas Monck (1570–1627), Knight, of Potheridge, where his ancestors had been seated for at least 18 generations in an unbroken male line. His mother was Elizabeth Smith, a daughter (by his first marriage) of Sir George Smith (died 1619) of Madworthy, near Exeter, Devon, a merchant who served as a Member of Parliament for Exeter in 1604, was three times Mayor of Exeter and was Exeter's richest citizen, possessing 25 manors. Elizabeth's half-sister by their father's second marriage was Grace Smith, wife of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
