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Rugby School

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

Location:
Rugby, Warwickshire, England

Founding Date:
1567

Official Website:
http://www.rugbyschool.net/

STUDENTS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Ralph Abercromby
Military
7-Oct-1734 28-Mar-1801 British general
Liaquat Ahamed
Economist
14-Nov-1952   Lords of Finance
Matthew Arnold
Poet
24-Dec-1822 15-Apr-1888 Culture and Anarchy
William Bateson
Biologist
8-Aug-1861 8-Feb-1926 Founder of genetics
Arthur Bliss
Composer
2-Aug-1891 28-Mar-1975 Morning Heroes
Rupert Brooke
Poet
3-Aug-1887 23-Apr-1915 1914 and Other Poems
Samuel Butler
Scholar
30-Jan-1774 4-Dec-1839 Headmaster of Shrewsbury School
Lewis Carroll
Author
27-Jan-1832 14-Jan-1898 Alice in Wonderland
Austen Chamberlain
Politician
16-Oct-1863 16-Mar-1937 British pol, Nobel Prize recipient
R. G. Collingwood
Historian
22-Feb-1889 9-Jan-1943 The Idea of History
E. J. H. Corner
Botanist
12-Jan-1906 14-Sep-1996 Durian theory
John H. Gaddum
Scientist
31-Mar-1900 30-Jun-1965 Drug antagonism
Charles Gordon-Lennox
Aristocrat
19-Sep-1929   10th Duke of Richmond
T. H. Green
Philosopher
7-Apr-1836 26-Mar-1882 Prolegomena to Ethics
F. Philip Handy
Business
c. 1945   Strategic Industries Inc.
Robert Hardy
Actor
29-Oct-1925   All Creatures Great and Small
R. M. Hare
Philosopher
21-Mar-1919 29-Jan-2002 Moral Thinking
Caspar Hobbs
Business
1969   Mergermarket Group
Edward Horsman
Politician
1807 30-Nov-1876 Scottish parliamentarian
Fenton J. A. Hort
Religion
23-Apr-1828 30-Nov-1892 Translator of the New Testament
Thomas Hughes
Author
20-Oct-1822 22-Mar-1896 Tom Brown's School Days
Tom King
Politician
13-Jun-1933   UK Minister of Defence, 1989-92
Ian Lang
Politician
27-Jun-1940   British MP for Galloway, 1979-97
William Charles Macready
Actor
3-Mar-1793 27-Apr-1873 19th c. English actor and manager
Andrew Mitchell
Politician
23-Mar-1956   British MP, Sutton Coldfield
Anthony Quayle
Actor
7-Sep-1913 20-Oct-1989 Ice-Cold in Alex
Salman Rushdie
Novelist
19-Jun-1947   The Satanic Verses
Henry Sidgwick
Philosopher
31-May-1838 29-Aug-1900 Method of Ethics
Henry Stephenson
Actor
16-Apr-1871 24-Apr-1956 The Prince and the Pauper
R. H. Tawney
Scholar
30-Nov-1880 16-Jan-1962 The Acquisitive Society
William Temple
Religion
15-Oct-1881 26-Oct-1944 Archbishop of Canterbury, 1942-44
A. N. Wilson
Novelist
27-Oct-1950   The Lampitt Papers

TEACHERS AND PROFESSORS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Ronald Fisher
Mathematician
17-Feb-1890 29-Jul-1962 Analysis of variance and covariance

ADMINISTRATORS AND TRUSTEES

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Ian Lang
Politician
27-Jun-1940   British MP for Galloway, 1979-97




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