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The Royal College of St. Peter at Westminster, commonly referred to as Westminster School, is an ancient English public school, located by Westminster Abbey in Westminster, central London, with a history stretching back to the 12th century. Its A-level results in 2004 and 2005 were the highest in the country. The school traditionally aims in particular to foster independent and original thinking.The Head Master is Dr. Stephen Spurr. Westminster School - History. The School originally became a public ...

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• Westminster School - Customs
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• Westminster School - Westminster jargon
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• Westminster School - Other jargon
• Westminster School - Houses
• Westminster School - Sport Station
• Westminster School - Former pupils

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Westminster School - Year names. Westminster has an unusual system for naming the school years, which can cause confusion to those not familiar with the system. For this reason the Under School changed to the nationally standard year names in September 1997. Under School (no longer in use) Year 3: Year not in existence until after names were dropped Year 4: Petty B Year 5: Petty A Year 6: Form 1 Year 7: Form 2 Year 8: Remove See also:

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Westminster School - Year names. Westminster has an unusual system for naming the school years, which can cause confusion to those not familiar with the system. For this reason the Under School changed to the nationally standard year names in September 1997. Under School (no longer in use) Year 3: Year not in existence until after names were dropped Year 4: Petty B Year 5: Petty A Year 6: Form 1 Year 7: Form 2 Year 8: Remove See also:

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Benjamin Jonson (June 11, 1572 – August 6, 1637) was an English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor. He is best known for his plays Volpone and The Alchemist, his lyrics, his influence on Jacobean and Caroline poets, his theory of humours, his contentious personality, and his friendship and rivalry with William Shakespeare. Ben Jonson - Biography. Ben Jonson - Early life. Although he was born in Westminster, Jonson claimed his family was of Border descent, and ...

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• Ben Jonson - Relationship with Shakespeare
• Ben Jonson - Reputation
• Ben Jonson - Jonson's works
• Ben Jonson - Plays
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The Right Honourable Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970), was an influential British logician, philosopher, and mathematician, working mostly in the 20th century. A prolific writer, Bertrand Russell was also a populariser of philosophy and a commentator on a large variety of topics, ranging from very serious issues to the mundane. Continuing a family tradition in political affairs, he was a prominent liberal as well as a socialist and anti-war activist for most of his long life. ...

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• Bertrand Russell - Philosophy of language
• Bertrand Russell - Philosophy of science
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• Bertrand Russell - Pacifism war and nuclear weapons
• Bertrand Russell - Communism and socialism
• Bertrand Russell - Women's suffrage
• Bertrand Russell - Sexuality
• Bertrand Russell - Eugenics and race
• Bertrand Russell - Russell summing up his life
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• Bertrand Russell - As a man
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• Bertrand Russell - As a recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature
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1179 - Events. Third Council of the Lateran condemned Waldensians and Cathars as heretics, institutes a reformation of clerical life, and creates the first "ghettos" for Jews Afonso I is recognized as the true King of Portugal by Pope Alexander III, bringing Portugal the protection of the Catholic Church against the Castillian monarchy Philip II is crowned King of France Aberdeen is chartered by William the Lion Westminster School founded by the monks of Westminster Abbey ...

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The Most Noble Augustus Henry FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, KG, PC (28 September 1735–14 March 1811) was a British Whig statesman of the Georgian era. He was one of a handful of dukes that served as Prime Minister. He was a son of Lord Augustus FitzRoy and Elizabeth Cosby, daughter of Colonel William Cosby, who served as a colonial Governor of New York. His father was the third son of Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton and Lady Henrietta Somerset, which made FitzRoy a great-grandson of both Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Grafto ...

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A boarding school is a school where some or all students not only study but also live, amongst their peers but away from their home and family. Many famous UK public schools are boarding schools for ages 13 to 18. Pupils may be sent to boarding schools at any age between two and eighteen; the amount of time spent in boarding school also varies considerably, from a brief period to more than 12 years, in one or two schools. There are any number of different types of boarding schools, from nursery or Kindergarten boarding schools, ...

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• Boarding school - List of some boarding schools
• Boarding school - Africa
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• Boarding school - Boarding schools in fiction
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As with Carroll himself, there are many myths about her life, most of them based on mere rumors without any evidence to support them, but because they were put forward by many biographers as true facts they are falsely believed to be indisputable by the wide public. Alice Liddell - Origin of Alice in Wonderland. On July 4, 1862, in a rowing boat travelling on the River Thames from Oxford to Godstow for a picnic outing, 10-year-old Alice asked Charles Dodgson to entertain her and her sisters Edith (age 8) an ...

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Alan Alexander Milne (January 18, 1882 – January 31, 1956), also known as A. A. Milne, was a British author, best known for his books about the animated teddy bear, Winnie-the-Pooh, and for various children's poems. Milne had made several reputations, most notably as a playwright, before the huge success of Pooh overshadowed all his previous work. A. A. Milne - Biography. Milne was born in Scotland but raised in London at a small private school in Kilburn run by his father John Vine Milne. One of h ...

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The Most Honourable Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, PC (May 13, 1730 – July 1, 1782) was a British Whig statesman, most notable for his two terms as Whig Prime Minister of Great Britain. He served in only two high offices during his lifetime (Prime Minister and Leader of the House of Lords), but was nonetheless very influential during his one and a half years of service. A descendant of Thomas Wentworth, Charles was brought up at the family home of Wentworth Woodhouse near Rotherham in South Yorkshire. H ...

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Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber (born March 22, 1948) is a highly successful British composer of musical theatre. He has arguably been the most popular theatre composer of the late 20th century, with multiple showpieces which have run for more than a decade both on Broadway and in the West End. Throughout his career he has produced 16 musicals, 2 film scores, and a Latin requiem mass. He has also accumulated a number of honors, including seven Tony Awards, three Grammy Awards, an Oscar, an International Emmy, six Olivier Award ...

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Arthur Dee (July 13, 1579 – September 1651) was the eldest son of Dr John Dee, and educated at Westminster School. Arthur accompanied his father in his peregrinations across Bohemia. He became a physician to Michael I of Russia, the founder of the Romanov Dynasty and resided in Moscow for fourteen years where he wrote his Fasciculus Chemicus, a collection of writings upon alchemy. Returning to England upon the death of his wife in 1637, Dee became physician to King Charles I. Upon his retirement Arthur Dee resided in N ...

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William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield (March 2, 1705 - March 20, 1793), was a British judge and politician who reached high office in the House of Lords. He was born at Scone in Perthshire, Scotland, a younger son of David Murray, 4th Viscount of Stormont (c. 1665-1731), a member of a Jacobite family. William Murray was educated at Perth grammar school and Westminster School, of which he was a king's scholar. Entering Christ Church College, Oxford, he graduated in 1727. A friend of the family, Thomas Foley, 1st Baron Foley, pro ...

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The Collegiate Church of St Peter, Westminster, which is almost always referred to as Westminster Abbey, is a mainly Gothic church, on the scale of a cathedral, in Westminster, London, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. It is the traditional place of coronation and burial site for English monarchs. Westminster Abbey - History. According to tradition, a shrine was first founded in 616 on the present site, then known as Thorney Island; it was said to have been miraculously consecrated after ...

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• Westminster Abbey - List of Abbots Deans and the Bishop of Westminster
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Westminster is a district within the City of Westminster in London. It is the location of the Palace of Westminster and the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Westminster is situated south west of the City of London and half a mile (0.8 km) south west of Charing Cross. Westminster - History. The name was historically used to describe the area around Westminster Abbey – the West Minster, or monastery church, that gave the area its name – which has been the seat of the governme ...

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The Coronation of the British monarch is a ceremony (specifically, initiation rite) in which the monarch of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth Realms is formally crowned and invested with regalia. The coronation usually takes place several months after the death of the previous monarch, for the coronation is considered a joyous occasion that would be inappropriate when mourning still continues. (It also gives planners enough time to complete the elaborate arrangements required for great State ceremony.) For example, Elizabeth II was crowned on June 2, 1953, despite having a ...

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• Coronation of the British monarch - Music
• Coronation of the British monarch - Coronation banquet
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William Camden (May 2, 1551 – November 9, 1623) was an English antiquarian and historian. He wrote the first topographical survey of Britain and the first detailed historical account of the reign of Elizabeth I. William Camden - Early years. Camden was born in London. His father, Sampson Camden, was a member of the Company of Painter-Stainers. He attended Christ's Hospital and St Paul's School, and in 1566 entered Oxford (Magdalen College, Broadgates Hall and finally Christ Church). At Christ Church, he b ...

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William Cowper (pronounced Cooper) (November 20, 1731 – April 25, 1800) was an English poet and hymnodist. One of the most popular poets of his time, Cowper changed the direction of 18th century nature poetry by writing of everyday life and scenes of the English countryside. He suffered from periods of severe depression, and although he found refuge in a fervent evangelical Christianity, the source of his much-loved hymns, he often experienced doubt and fears that he was doomed to eternal damnation. However, his religious mot ...

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The City of Westminster is a London borough with city status, situated to the west of the City of London and north of the River Thames. It forms part of Inner London. The city contains most of London's West End, as well as the permanent headquarters of the United Kingdom's government, with the Palace of Westminster, Whitehall, and the Royal Courts of Justice. In 1965 the London borough was created fro ...

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