Harold King, 1887-1956

1956 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 157-171 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
General Interest ◽  
Final Examination ◽  
Grammar School ◽  
Head Teachers ◽  
Interest In Science ◽  
Fellow Student ◽  
The Family ◽  
Church School ◽  
The Village ◽  
The Church

Harold King, who died on 20 February 1956, was brought up in Wales, although he had no Welsh blood in him. His father, Herbert King, who, together with his wife, came of Lancashire farming stock, was a schoolmaster by profession; he had received his training at Carmarthen and had hence become specially interested in Welsh education. Harold, the eldest of four children, was born on 24 February 1887 in the village of Llanengan, Carnarvonshire, where his mother was headmistress of the church school, his father being headmaster of the church school at the neighbouring village of Llanbedrog. Soon after Harold’s birth the family moved to Llanystumdwy, where his parents were headteachers of the church school until 1891; in the latter year they moved again, this time to Bangor, the move being dictated by Herbert King’s desire to provide the best education for his children; the parents remained head teachers of the St James Church School in Bangor until their retirement in 1923. It was in this modest and serious-minded environment that Harold King grew to manhood, and the marks of his upbringing remained with him to the end of his life. His earliest education was received at the school where his parents taught; from this he moved to Friars’ Grammar School, Bangor, where he spent about five years, and in 1905 he entered University College,, Bangor, as the holder of two scholarships. King himself has recorded that at this time he had a general interest in science, but was quite undecided as to which particular branch he would pursue. At the end of his intermediate course he was still undecided, but at this stage he was influenced by the advice of a fellow student to choose chemistry as one of the subjects for his final examination. The advice that was given to King was based on the excellence of the teaching of chemistry by the late K. J. P. Orton who held the chair at Bangor; it was a fortunate circumstance that he accepted this advice, for as he himself said, under the inspiration of Orton’s teaching he found chemistry both interesting and easy; his period of indecision was over; he had found the chosen subject for his life’s work, and in 1909 he graduated with first class honours.

Norman Bertram Marshall. 5 February 1915–13 February 1996

1998 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 281-296
Author(s):  
Q. Bone ◽  
N. R. Merrett
Keyword(s):  
School Teacher ◽  
Sunday School ◽  
Later Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
After School ◽  
The Family ◽  
Church School ◽  
The Village ◽  
The Devil ◽  
The Church

Norman Bertram Marshall came from a family that had lived for generations in the small village of Great Shelford, near Cambridge, and was born there in a house built by his father (a builder, as his grandfather had been). Freddy (as he was universally known in later life) was the eldest of three boys and one girl. One of his brothers became an entomologist, the other an architect. The family was not well off, particularly after his father had left for the trenches in France with the Cambridgeshire Regiment before Freddy was born. To supplement his mother's income, Freddy worked in the fields after school and in the holidays, leading horses. He entered the church school in the village in 1920, but he was more interested in trying to catch dace and roach than in his schooling and was evidently rather a trial to his teachers. When his Sunday school teacher, Percy Reed, said T command the Devil to leave this place Freddy felt this was aimed at him and got up and left.

The Family and the Church School

1949 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 153-157
Author(s):  
Raymond V. Kearns
Keyword(s):  
The Family ◽  
Church School ◽  
The Church

scholarly journals Sir John McMichael, 25 July 1904 - 3 March 1993

1995 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
pp. 282-296
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Medical Service ◽  
Major Influence ◽  
World War ◽  
Interest In Science ◽  
Indian Medical ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Village ◽  
Broad Interest ◽  
Good Manager

A quote that says much about John McMichael comes from his own autobiographical notes: ‘I come from a materially poor branch of a Galloway family’. He was born on 25 July 1904 in Gatehouse of Fleet, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland, son of James and Margaret McMichael. There were two older sisters and two elder brothers, and he was something of an afterthought. His father ran a farm on the edge of the village and was also the local butcher. A ‘God-fearing, generous man’, he was not a good manager of his limited resources. Until he was ten years old John McMichael went to a school run under the patronage of the Lady of the Manor; but in 1914 this school was closed and he transferred to Girthon public school under its headmaster, William Learmonth, who was to have a major influence on the young McMichael. Learmonth’s son, eight years McMichael’s senior, became Sir James Learmonth, the well-known surgeon. Learmonth was an exceedingly capable teacher to find in a small village school and his pupils clearly felt the benefit. At the age of 14 there was a debate in the McMichael household about the next stage in John’s education. His mother, supported by Learmonth, decided he must continue and he moved to Kirkcudbright Academy, eight miles away, a hard and hilly bicycle ride. Here he blossomed, taking first place in most subjects, and ending up as Dux of the school. His decision to read medicine was influenced by two chance factors. He often spent his holidays with a fisherman on an island in the Fleet Bay where the solitary house was occupied by a doctor from the Indian Medical Service during his leaves. On wet days his medical books opened up exciting prospects in the schoolboy’s enquiring mind. During World War I a maternal cousin, Col. George Home, C.B.E., M.D., of the New Zealand Army Medical Corps, spent his leaves with the family and kindled a broad interest in science and medicine.

scholarly journals James Kenner, 13 April 1885 - 30 June 1974

1975 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 389-405
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Boarding School ◽  
School Education ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Grammar School ◽  
The Family ◽  
Church School

James Kenner was born on 13 April 1885 at Morpeth in Northumberland but his family came originally from Devon. His father, James Binmore Kenner, was born at Stoke Damarel in 1856, the son of a tailor’s seamster, but the family moved to London in his early boyhood. There they lived in humble circumstances in Soho Square and Kenner’s father, after only a primary school education, was sent out to work at an early age. However, he became a pupil teacher at St Martin’s Church School near Charing Cross and by his own effort and self- teaching matriculated at London University and then passed the Intermediate Arts Examination and was appointed an Assistant Master at Morpeth Grammar School in Northumberland about 1877. There he graduated B.A. London as an external student, a truly remarkable achievement for a self-taught man. In due course he became Second Master at Morpeth but in 1891 he gave up his post there to take over a small private boarding school at Brentwood, Essex, and developed it until he had about 100 boarding and day pupils; he retired in 1920 and died in 1940.

scholarly journals I.—Eminent Living Geologists

1901 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 385-400
Author(s):  
T. G. Bonney
Keyword(s):  
Primary Education ◽  
Grammar School ◽  
The Family ◽  
Second Year ◽  
The Church

Thomas George Bonney was born July 27th, 1833, at Rugeley, Staffordshire. His family is of Huguenot origin, and thus affords yet another instance of the remarkable intellectual enrichment of our country which resulted from the religious persecutions in France. His father, the Rev. Thomas Bonney, son of the Rev. George Bonney, vicar of Sandon, and sometime Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, was a man of wide and varied interests, and a hard worker, in spite of feeble health; he was master of the Grammar School, Rugeley, and for many years ‘perpetual curate’ of Pipe Ridware, a very small parish about five miles from Rugeley. The church was rebuilt through his efforts, and he took great interest in primary education, acting for some time informally as Inspector of Schools in the Diocese. He married a daughter of Edward Smith, a Staffordshire man of independent means, and died in 1853, leaving a widow and ten children, of whom Professor Bonney, then just entering upon his second year at Cambridge, was the eldest. The family inherited some property, but the income it afforded was small for the education of so many.

scholarly journals Norman James Petch, 13 February 1917 - 9 December 1992

1995 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
pp. 342-357 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Grammar School ◽  
Good Sense ◽  
World War ◽  
The West ◽  
The Family ◽  
Great Love ◽  
The Village ◽  
General Strike

Norman Petch was born in Glasgow on 13 February 1917, the third child in a family of three boys and one girl. He had an English father who was a commercial traveller in drapery for most of his working life, and a Scottish mother. The family moved to England shortly after World War I, where most of his youth was spent in various parts of the West Riding of Yorkshire. He was not to live again in Scotland until relatively late in his career, when in 1973 he became Professor of Metallurgy at Strathclyde University. Despite this, he was proud of his Scottish origins, and had a great love of Scotland which was reflected in his eventual retirement to Culbokie in the Black Isle. Norman’s grandfather lived at Findon Cottage in Culbokie where he had been the agent for Sir George MacKenzie, a large landowner. His property, comprizing a delightful cottage and 10 acres, was a constant attraction to Norman from the age of two through his school years, and indeed throughout his life provided a serene environment in which to relax and to write, and finally a retirement haven. His education began in Yorkshire in the local school in the village of Aberford, where he exhibited an early interest in technology by making a crystal wireless set and by showing a mature knowledge of the workings of the family car. During the General Strike in 1926 Norman built a trolley from an old tin bath and pram wheels in order to transport logs from a nearby wood, as coal was unavailable at this time. He was clearly a contemplative child who played long games of chess with his father, and at an early age revealed a thoughtful attitude to life. In later years he was not a person to provide instant wisdom, but after mature reflection could be relied on to talk very good sense. His secondary education was principally at the Grammar School in Tadcaster, but completed at the West Leeds High School when the family moved to Leeds.

scholarly journals Arne Tiselius, 1902 - 1971

1974 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 401-428 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Premature Death ◽  
Insurance Company ◽  
Grammar School ◽  
Difficult Situation ◽  
Small Children ◽  
Interest In Science ◽  
The Family

Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius was born in Stockholm on 10 August 1902, the son of Hans Abraham J : son Tiselius and Rosa Kaurin, a daughter of the rector of a mountain parish in the centre of Norway. Tiselius’s father had acquired his surname from his grandmother, Mrs Johansson, nee Tisell, who was descended from a family alternatively named Tisell or Tiselius. Several of her ancestors were scholarly persons with a great interest in science, especially in biology. At the end of the seventeenth century members of this family were learned clergymen interested in scientific pursuits and in the eighteenth century they were foundry proprietors and yeomen farmers. Tiselius’s father, who was employed by an insurance company in Stockholm, had taken a degree in mathematics at Uppsala University. His grandfather, Nils Abraham Johansson, and his grandfather’s brother had also taken degrees at Uppsala in mathematics and biology respectively. N. A. Johansson became ‘docent’ in mathematics at Uppsala and later moved to Gothenburg where at first he was ‘lektor’ and finally principal of a well known grammar school. After the premature death of Dr Hans Tiselius in 1906, Mrs Tiselius moved with Arne and his sister to Gothenburg where Arne’s grandparents were living and where the family had some very close friends who in various respects could support Mrs Tiselius in her difficult situation with the two small children. Arne went to the grammar school, the present Vasa Laroverk, where his grandfather had been principal. Here, Dr Ludwig Johansson, a very inspiring teacher in chemistry and biology who had been ‘docent’ in zoology at Uppsala before going to Gothenburg, discovered Tiselius’s ability in chemistry.

William Ernest Stephen Turner, 1881-1963

1964 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 325-355
Keyword(s):  
Research Work ◽  
University Research ◽  
Grammar School ◽  
Bachelor Of Science ◽  
The Family ◽  
University College ◽  
Research Scholarship ◽  
Insurance Agent ◽  
The Church

William Ernest Stephen Turner was born on 22 September 1881 at Wednesbury, Staffordshire. He was the second of seven children and the eldest son of William George and Emma Blanche Turner. His father was self-educated and shared in the precariousness of employment of those times being successively railway porter, signalman, iron works labourer, morning postman and industrial insurance agent. Throughout these varying hardships he served as deacon and elder in a community known as the Church of the Baptist Brethren in Smethwick. At the age of 12 Turner was awarded a Staffordshire County minor scholarship from the Crocketts Lane Board School, Smethwick, and when he was 13 gained admission to King Edward VI Grammar School, Five Ways, Birmingham. Tremendous sacrifices must have been demanded of the family to make it possible for Turner to continue his education. He was, apparently, a brilliant pupil and won many prizes while at school. He entered the then Mason University College in 1898 with a school leaving scholarship and graduated with the London degree of Bachelor of Science with honours in chemistry in 1902. He was awarded a Birmingham University Research Scholarship and began research work under Dr Alex Findlay. He became M.Sc. (Birmingham) in 1904 and was awarded the Erhardt Research Prize.

James Pickering Kendall, 30 July 1889 - 14 June 1978

1980 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 255-273
Keyword(s):  
Grammar School ◽  
Older Children ◽  
Holy Trinity ◽  
Village School ◽  
Church School ◽  
Henry Kendall ◽  
The University ◽  
The Village

James Kendall was born in the small village of West End, Chobham, Surrey. His father, William Henry Kendall, served for 21 years in the Royal Horse Artillery and subsequently as an instructor in the Gordon Boys’ School, the national memorial to General Gordon, until his retiral in 1910. His mother, Rebecca Pickering, was of West Country stock and was his father’s second wife. Kendall attended the village school, Holy Trinity Church School, West Chobham, which consisted of two rooms: one for infants and one for the older children, and later in 1900 obtained a scholarship which enabled him to attend Farnham Grammar School, some thirteen miles distant. One of his contemporaries at Farnham was E. K. Rideal—later Sir Eric Rideal, F.R.S. Kendall became head boy and in 1907 obtained a County Major Scholarship with the help of which he entered Edinburgh University. The choice of this university is interesting and had been settled two years previously. Kendall wished to go to Cambridge, but was prevented from doing so by financial considerations. His parents suggested London University, but Kendall wanted ‘to spread his wings’ (as he expressed it). Considerable family discussion ensued and it was decided to consult his headmaster. In the course of the interview the headmaster put the question: ‘What’s the boy intending to do after he leaves the university?’

scholarly journals Hvorfor kom N. F. S. Grundtvig ikke i Viborg Latinskole?

1951 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-94
Author(s):  
F. Paludan-Müller
Keyword(s):  
Boarding School ◽  
Final Examination ◽  
Grammar School ◽  
Guinea Coast ◽  
Whole School ◽  
The Family ◽  
Turn Over ◽  
The University

Why did N. F. S. Grundtvig not go to the Grammar School in Viborg? By F. Paludan-Miiller. N. F. S. Grundtvig had three elder brothers, who all became clergymen like himself. These brothers were: 1) Otto Grundtvig (1772—1833), who entered the University in 1789 from Herlufsholm boarding-school in South Sjaelland and afterwards was a clergyman on the island of Falster and subsequently in the vicinity of Copenhagen; 2) Jacob Ulrich Hansen Grundtvig (1775—1800), who entered the University from Viborg Grammar School in 1795 and died as a clergyman in the Danish colony on the Guinea Coast; 3) Niels Christian Bang Grundtvig (1777—1803), who also entered the University from Viborg, in 1796, and also died as a clergyman on the Guinea Coast. Both these elder brothers who were nearest in age to N. F. S. Gr. were prepared as private pupils for some years by Pastor L. Feld before they were sent to the Grammar School in Viborg. N. F. S. Grundtvig, too, was taught as a private pupil, from his ninth to his fifteenth year, by Pastor Feld (who at that time was a clergyman at Thyregod in the middle of Jutland). Strangely enough, he was afterwards sent to the Latin School in Aarhus, and not to Viborg as one would naturally have expected. The reason for this may perhaps be found in the behaviour of his elder brothers as students at Viborg Grammar School, for its records show that their careers at the school were not very successful. Jacob was a stubborn character and not a very diligent student. In 1794 he and another boy attacked some of their fellow-pupils during a game of ball, and he was subsequently reprimanded in front of the whole school, and very nearly sent down. But he promised to turn over a new leaf, and remained at the school, which he left in 1795 after doing badly in his final examination. Niels also showed a lack of diligence, and, in consequence of this, was a »private pupil« during his last two years at school, which at that time meant, among other things, that the school took no responsibility for him as a student. However, he did very well in his final examination in 1796. — Presumably it was these circumstances which caused the family to decide to send the youngest brother (N. F. S. Grundtvig) to Aarhus.

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