Christ's Hospital
The most famous of the Blue‐Coat or charity schools, was founded in London under a charter of Edward VI as a school for poor children, in buildings that before the ...
Christ's Hospital Reference library
The Oxford Guide to Literary Britain & Ireland (3 ed.)
...'s Hospital West Sussex Public school off the A24, S of Horsham, which moved from Newgate St. in the City ( see London ) in 1902 . Middleton Murry mentions having a year at the old site in Between Two Worlds ( 1934 ). Edmund Blunden , who won an entrance scholarship here and also in 1914 a scholarship to The Queen's College, Oxford , published two short collections of verse in his last year, Poems and Poems Translated from the French . Keith Douglas came here in 1931 and at 16 had one of his poems accepted in New Verse . He won a...
Douglas, Keith Castellain (1920–44) Reference library
The Oxford Guide to Literary Britain & Ireland (3 ed.)
...Keith Castellain ( 1920–44 ), poet : educ. Christ's Hospital and Oxford ( Merton College ). Poems published in Kingdom Come, Cherwell (ed.), help with Augury ...
Camden, William (1551–1623) Reference library
The Oxford Guide to Literary Britain & Ireland (3 ed.)
...William ( 1551–1623 ), antiquary and historian : educ. London ( City : Christ's Hospital , Newgate St., and St Paul's School) and Oxford ( Christ Church ); usher 1575–93 , then headmaster, in London ( Westminster : Westminster School); buried in London ( Westminster Abbey ). Britannia 1586 , Annales 1589...
Murry, John Middleton (1889–1957) Reference library
The Oxford Guide to Literary Britain & Ireland (3 ed.)
...John Middleton ( 1889–1957 ), critic : educ. Christ's Hospital and Oxford ( Brasenose College ); lives in London ( St John's Wood : Acacia Rd) 1915 ; visits D. H. Lawrence in Zennor 1916 ; lives in Mylor 1916 ; visits Garsington ; m. Katherine Mansfield and lives in London ( Hampstead : East Heath Rd) 1918 . Rhythm (ed.) 1911 , Between Two Worlds 1934...
Dyer, George (1755–1841) Reference library
The Oxford Guide to Literary Britain & Ireland (3 ed.)
...George ( 1755–1841 ), poet and essayist : educ. London ( City : Christ's Hospital , Newgate St.) and Cambridge ( Emmanuel College ); teaches in Northampton 1780s; lives in London ( City : Clifford's Inn) 1792–1841 ; visits Lamb in Duncan Ter. ( Islington ) 1823 . History of the University and Colleges 1814...
Richardson, Samuel (1689–1761) Reference library
The Oxford Guide to Literary Britain & Ireland (3 ed.)
...Samuel ( 1689–1761 ), novelist : baptized in Mackworth ; educ. London ( City : Christ's Hospital , Newgate St.); has printing works in London ( City : Fleet St.); lives in London ( Fulham : North End Cres.) 1739–54 ; visits Bath 1740s; lives in London ( Fulham : Parson's Green) 1754–61 ; buried in St Bride's, London ( City : Fleet St.). Pamela, or, Virtue Rewarded 1740 , Clarissa 1747–8 , Sir Charles Grandison 1753–4...
Yalding Reference library
The Oxford Guide to Literary Britain & Ireland (3 ed.)
... and spent his early years in what he felt to be the rural world of his ancestors. His father was the village schoolmaster and church organist and his mother the headmistress of the infants' school. He attended Cleave's Grammar School from 1907 to 1909 , before going to Christ's Hospital at Horsham. There is a memorial window to him in the chancel of the church, engraved by Lawrence Whistler ( 1979...
Blunden, Edmund Charles (1896–1974) Reference library
The Oxford Guide to Literary Britain & Ireland (3 ed.)
...Edmund Charles ( 1896–1974 ), poet and critic : b. in London ( Tottenham Court Rd ); lives at Yalding from 1900 ; educ. Christ's Hospital and Oxford ( The Queen's College ); Fellow at Oxford ( Merton College ) 1931–43 , Hon. Fellow 1964–74 ; lives in Long Melford 1965–74 ; visits Edward Marsh in London ( Holborn ); buried in Long Melford. Poems 1914 , Poems Translated from the French 1914 , Poems 1930–40 1940 , Shells by a Stream 1944...
Hunt, James Henry Leigh (1784–1859) Reference library
The Oxford Guide to Literary Britain & Ireland (3 ed.)
...James Henry Leigh ( 1784–1859 ), essayist and poet : b. London ( Southgate ); educ. London ( City : Christ's Hospital , Newgate St.); visits Hastings 1812 ; imprisoned in London ( Southwark : Horsemonger Lane jail, Borough High St.) 1812–14 ; lives in Hampstead (Vale of Health) 1815 , Marylebone (Lisson Grove) 1815–17 ; visits Marlow 1817 ; lives in London ( Chelsea : Upper Cheyne Row) 1833–40 , ( Hammersmith : Rowan Rd) 1853–9 ; buried in London ( Kensal Green cemetery ). The Story of Rimini 1816...
Ottery St Mary Reference library
The Oxford Guide to Literary Britain & Ireland (3 ed.)
... St Stephen's Chapel are by Browne . Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born on 21 October 1772 at the schoolhouse, the 13th and youngest child of the Revd John Coleridge, vicar 1760–81 , and master of the Grammar School. After his father's death the 9‐year‐old boy went to Christ's Hospital, London ( see London: City ). He wrote a sonnet ‘To the River Otter’ and remembered his birthplace and the music of the church bells in ‘Frost at Midnight’ ( Feb. 1798 ). A memorial plaque on the churchyard wall has a low‐relief bust and portrays the albatross from ‘The...
Lamb, Charles (1775–1834) Reference library
The Oxford Guide to Literary Britain & Ireland (3 ed.)
...Charles ( 1775–1834 ), essayist , poet , and critic , brother of Mary Lamb: b. and baptized in London ( City : Temple); educ. London ( City : Christ's Hospital, Newgate St.); childhood visits to Widford and Mackery End ; clerk in South‐Sea House, London ( City : Threadneedle St.) 1792–5 and East India House (City: Lime St.) 1795–1825 ; lives in Little Queen St. (Holborn: Kingsway) 1795–6 ; visits Coleridge in Nether Stowey 1797 and Keswick 1802 ; holidays in Cowes 1803 ; attends Hazlitt's wedding at St Andrew's, London ( Holborn : Holborn...
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772–1834) Reference library
The Oxford Guide to Literary Britain & Ireland (3 ed.)
...Samuel Taylor ( 1772–1834 ), poet and philosopher : b. Ottery St Mary; educ. London ( City : Christ's Hospital , Newgate St.) and Cambridge ( Jesus College ); visits Cheddar, Ross‐on‐Wye 1794 ; lodges and lectures in Bristol; m. in Bristol 1795 ; lives in Clevedon 1795–6 , Bristol ( Kingsdown ), Nether Stowey 1796–8 ; visits Adscombe, Racedown Lodge, Porlock, Alfoxton, Lynmouth; preaches in Nottingham, Bridgwater 1797–8 , Taunton 1798 , Shrewsbury 1798 ; lives in London ( Strand : Buckingham St.) 1799 , Keswick 1800–3 ; visits Grasmere ...
Education, Adventure Reference library
Stephan WASSONG
Berkshire Encyclopedia of World Sport (3 ed.)
...believed the restlessness of modern life led to a decrease in compassion. In order to counteract this decline, and to stir the development of altruism and civic duty, students in the program would take part in service-focused activities by volunteering in fire departments and hospitals and enrolling in coast guard service. Hahn always stressed that this educational program was eclectic in its nature, as he borrowed the concept of physical training mainly from English public schools; the idea of project and expedition from US and German progressive education;...
Cambridge Reference library
The Oxford Guide to Literary Britain & Ireland (3 ed.)
...in Cambridge, home to Marxist academic Max Morrow . Christ's College ( 1505 ). John Leland (or Leyland), who claimed to have saved the manuscripts of ‘many good authors’ from the monasteries after their dissolution, graduated here in 1522 . Gabriel Harvey left after his BA in 1570 to become a Fellow of Pembroke. John Milton , whose fair complexion earned him the nickname ‘Lady of Christ's’, is said to have had rooms ( 1625–32 ) in the first court (refaced). Here he wrote ‘Hymn on the Morning of Christ's Nativity’ and the sonnet to Shakespeare . His...
Dublin Reference library
The Oxford Guide to Literary Britain & Ireland (3 ed.)
... (N aisle), Charles Wolfe (S transept), and Sir Samuel Ferguson (S aisle). St Patrick's Hospital, Bow Lane, James's St. ( 1749–57 ). The hospital, now a psychiatric centre, was founded by Swift : He gave the little wealth he had To build a house for fools and mad; To show by one satiric touch, No nation wanted it so much. It has an interesting collection of Swift relics. Derek Mahon , his ‘bits and pieces making a home from home’, describes a stay in the hospital in ‘Dawn at St Patrick's’. Trinity College, College Green (founded 1592 by Elizabeth I )....
Austria Reference library
Linda Kneucker, Linda Kneucker, Raoul Kneucker, and Martin Voracek
Contiuum Complete International Encyclopedia of Sexuality
...the reconstruction of the hymen is carried out in operations in Viennese hospitals. Whether, and how often, female circumcision is carried out cannot be determined. [ Comment 2000 : The Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics at the Vienna General Hospital/Medical Faculty, University of Vienna, has all patient information forms, including information on sexuality, family planning, birth control, AIDS, and homosexuality, in German, Turkish, and Serbo-Croatian. Most likely, other hospital facilities and counseling centers have similar patient information...
Ireland Reference library
Thomas Phelim Kelly and Harry A. Walsh
Contiuum Complete International Encyclopedia of Sexuality
...A recent amendment to the family planning laws allows condoms to be sold to a person of any age with minimal restrictions. Male sterilization is provided in family planning clinics, some private and public hospitals, and by a few family doctors. Female sterilization is carried out in some private hospitals with varying preconditions. Many hospitals will not perform female sterilization for ethical reasons. Some voluntary organizations provide free instruction in natural contraceptive methods, the Billings cervical mucus, and related methods. Respondents to...
Philippines Reference library
Jose Florante J. Leyson and J. F. J. Leyson
Contiuum Complete International Encyclopedia of Sexuality
...gynecologists has helped a large number of workers and their families by educating patients about the risks of STDs and encouraging them to seek early detection and treatment. The third environment is provided by municipal health clinics and provincial and/ or regional hospitals. These hospitals are entrusted with two missions: to provide medical services to the poorest sectors of the population and to serve as training grounds for medical students from both private and public medical schools and universities. Initially, these services were totally free, but...
Oxford Reference library
The Oxford Guide to Literary Britain & Ireland (3 ed.)
... 2003 Pullman published a little companion to his alternative city, Lyra's Oxford . In the final book of Colin Dexter's ‘Inspector Morse’ series, The Remorseful Day ( 2000 ), Morse collapses on the lawn in the front quad here at Exeter, and is rushed to the John Radcliffe Hospital where he dies. Hertford College ( 1874 ), including the former Hart Hall. Samuel Daniel entered Hart Hall in 1579 and later became tutor to William Herbert at Wilton. John Donne , who came up in 1584 , became acquainted with Henry Wotton and John Davies of Queen's,...
Switzerland Reference library
Johannes Bitzer, Judith Adler, Udo Rauschfleisch, Sibil Tschudin, Elizabeth Zemp, and Ulrike Kosta
Contiuum Complete International Encyclopedia of Sexuality
...role (heterosexual preference), while others live in a lesbian (man-to-woman) or gay (woman-to man) relationship with a partner. This phenomenon shows that transsexuality is a dimension independent from sexual orientation. There are some centers in Switzerland at the University Hospitals where specialists of surgery, endocrinology, psychiatry/clinical psychology, urology, and gynecology treat transgender/transsexual persons. The programs are adapted to the way of treatment that developed in other countries, especially in the United States. This modality requires...
