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?’

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.

scholarly journals William John Pugh, 28 July 1892 - 18 March 1974

1975 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 485-495
Keyword(s):  
Birth Certificate ◽  
Academic Excellence ◽  
Considerable Influence ◽  
Middle Aged ◽  
Village School ◽  
Football Team ◽  
University College ◽  
The University ◽  
The Village ◽  
Successful Candidate

William John Pugh was born in the village of Westbury in West Shropshire on 28 July 1892, the only son of John Pugh by his second wife Harriet. John Pugh was described as a master wheelwright on his son’s birth certificate but he subsequently became a coal merchant. In reminiscence, William Pugh tended to attribute his pursuit of academic excellence mainly to encouragement from his mother although he may well have acquired his fluency of exposition and love of teaching from his father, who was a non-conformist lay preacher of some renown in the district between Shrewsbury and Welshpool. The probability is that both his parents exerted a considerable influence on him because, with his step-brothers and step-sisters already adult and away from home, he grew up in reality as the only son of a middle-aged couple. In due course he attended the village school in Westbury and won a scholarship which took him to Welshpool County School. There his innate versatility began to manifest itself as he became captain of the first XI football team, Head Boy, and successful candidate for a place in the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth.

scholarly journals Sydney Cross Harland, 19 July 1891 - 8 November 1982

1984 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 297-316
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Old Age ◽  
West Indies ◽  
The West ◽  
King's College ◽  
Village School ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Manchester ◽  
The Village ◽  
Textile Institute

Sydney Cross Harland was born in Snainton, near Scarborough, Yorkshire, on 19 July 1891. He went to school, first in the village school and then at Scarborough High School. From there he was awarded a scholarship, and went to King’s College, London, and read geology. He graduated with honours in 1912. He grew up a short, stocky man. He was brisk and active in his movements, in spite of a limp which he had through out his life. He went overseas and worked in the West Indies, Brazil and Peru. Here turned to England to become Reader in Genetics and then Professor of Botany in the University of Manchester. In 1919, while working in the West Indies, he was awarded a D.Sc. in botany by King’s College, London. He was elected F. R. S. in 1943 and F.R.S.E. in 1951, and he was made an Honorary Fellow of the Textile Institute for his work on the technological characters of raw cotton. When he retired he lived for some time in Blackheath and then on a property he had acquired in Peru. In old age he returned to a house he had owned since 1932 in Snainton, and there he died on 8 November 1982, at the age of 91.

The Chambered Cairn at Dyffryn Ardudwy

Antiquity ◽  
1963 ◽  
Vol 37 (145) ◽  
pp. 19-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. G. E. Powell
Keyword(s):  
Surface Inspection ◽  
Prehistoric Archaeology ◽  
Principal Reason ◽  
Village School ◽  
Ancient Monuments ◽  
The University ◽  
The Village ◽  
Sea Coast

The chambered cairn at Dyffryn Ardudwy is one of the principal tombs in a group of six surviving monuments that stand at medium altitudes above the sea coast in this vicinity which lies midway between Harlech and Barmouth. The cairn stands close to the village school in Dyffryn Ardudwy, and the questionable safety of the capstone of the larger chamber was the principal reason for undertaking excavation and consolidation. The work was carried out by the Department of Prehistoric Archaeology of the University of Liverpool on behalf and with the close assistance of the Inspectorate of Ancient Monuments for Wales. The monument has been well-known since Crawford's plan of 1920, and has been described by Grimes and Daniel in so far as surface inspection would allow.

scholarly journals Willliam Kingdon Spencer, 1878-1955

1956 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 291-298
Keyword(s):  
World Wide ◽  
Grammar School ◽  
Village School ◽  
The World ◽  
The Village

William Kingdon Spencer, who died at Ipswich on 1 October 1955 in his 77th year, achieved world-wide recognition among palaeontologists as an authority on Palaeozoic starfishes; but to a larger section of the community he was known as an outstanding figure in the world of education. He was born on 10 December 1878 at Barrow on Soar; but the greater part of his boyhood was spent in the Calder Valley, where his father, John Firth Spencer, was head master of the village school at Blyth. He attended his father’s school between the ages of 3 and 12 years; and his contact at that impressionable period with the home weavers of the district gave him a keen sense of craftsmanship. In 1890 he gained a West Riding scholarship to Batley Grammar School. Here, under the direction of an enlightened head master, he learned to work for himself rather than to be ‘crammed’; and he always considered himself fortunate to have come under the influence of W. Rushby who, as science master, ‘gave the inspiration which could lead to an understanding of the joy of discovery and of the emotional satisfaction accompanying it’.

The 1805 Forékariah Conference: A Case of Political Intrigue, Economic Advantage, Network Building

1998 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 219-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce L. Mouser
Keyword(s):  
Sierra Leone ◽  
Economic Advantage ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
University Library ◽  
Network Building ◽  
The University ◽  
The Village

Palavers, great meetings, grand conferences, “tribal” meetings— these are terms used to describe meetings among peoples in and near Sierra Leone, meetings in which political, diplomatic, and economic questions are discussed and sometimes resolved at the village, intervillage, and occasionally, national levels. These conferences vary in size and importance, depending on dimensions of conflicts or questions to be resolved. This paper focuses on one such conference that convened at Forékariah, the capital of Moria, in 1805 and on circumstances leading to it. It is based largely upon a lengthy first-hand report deposited at the University Library, University of Illinois at Chicago. This paper is presented in two parts: a description of the conference and its placement in Sierra Leone and Morian histories, and the text of the report produced by Sierra Leone observers.From the earliest records of British officials at Sierra Leone, there are citations to specific “indigenous” meetings and allusions to others that supposedly occurred (indeed they would have had to occur for certain events to follow). One of the earliest large conferences described in detail in these records is one that convened at Forékariah from 24 March to 6 April 1805. The extant contemporary written record of this conference was produced by Alexander Smith, the Sierra Leone Company's and Governor William Day's principal representative at the conference. Other observers from Freetown included William Francis, Andrew Moore, Captain Smith, and Charles Shaw. Alexander Smith did not identify a specific interpreter nor describe what method he used to record the detailed arguments presented by participants. Certainly the filter of language and inter pretation must have influenced the record's content. If one places the conference within the framework of Company and Sierra Leone history, however, and accepts the premise that the Freetown observers were relatively unbiased since they were not principal parties to the palavers resolved, the report can be seen as one of a very few in which Sierra Leone's officials presented themselves in such uninvolved fashion.

Associate Professor Khabibulla Nurmukhametovich Amirov (for the 100th anniversary of his birth)

2001 ◽  
Vol 82 (3) ◽  
pp. 234-235
Author(s):  
E. S. Valishin
Keyword(s):  
Associate Professor ◽  
100Th Anniversary ◽  
Medical Faculty ◽  
Human Anatomy ◽  
State University ◽  
Financial Difficulties ◽  
Normal Human ◽  
Peasant Family ◽  
The University ◽  
The Village

Khabibulla Nurmukhametovich Amirov was born on May 18, 1901 in the village of Tat. Tashaevo of the Nurlatsky district of Tatarstan in a working peasant family. His early desire for knowledge prompted him to move to his brother in Chita as a child, where he graduated from the parish school of the 1st stage in 1916, and in 1923 from the parish school of the 2nd stage. Having shown outstanding performance, curiosity and a great thirst for knowledge over the years of study, after graduating from college, he was sent to continue his studies at the Medical Faculty of Kazan State University. From the very first days of his stay at the university, he takes up his studies with great zeal, paying great attention to a new and unfamiliar subject normal human anatomy. However, experiencing great financial difficulties, he was forced to interrupt his studies at the university. From 1924 to 1927, the young man worked as a nurse in the Zabulachno-Pletenevsky skin and venereological dispensary of the Tatnarkomzdrav, and only after the appointment of a special family scholarship, he was able to continue his studies.

XLI. Observations upon some Celtic Remains, lately discovered by the Public Road leading from London to Cambridge, near to the Village of Sawston, distant seven miles from the University, by Edward Daniel Clarke, LL.D. Professor of Mineralogy in the University of Cambridge. Communicated by the Rev. Thomas Kerrich, M.A. F.S.A.

Archaeologia ◽  
1817 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 340-343
Author(s):  
Edward Daniel Clarke
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Asia Minor ◽  
Ancient History ◽  
The Public ◽  
The North ◽  
Public Road ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
The University ◽  
The Village ◽  
The Temple

It is not attaching too high a degree of importance to the study of Celtic antiquities, to maintain, that, owing to the attention now paid to it in this country, a light begins to break in upon that part of ancient history, which, beyond every other, seemed to present a forlorn investigation. All that relates to the aboriginal inhabitants of the north of Europe, would be involved in darkness but for the enquiries now instituted respecting Celtic sepulchres. From the information already received, concerning these sepulchres, it may be assumed, as a fact almost capable of actual demonstration, that the mounds, or barrows, common to all Great Britain, and to the neighbouring continent, together with all the tumuli fabled by Grecian and by Roman historians as the tombs of Giants, are so many several vestiges of that mighty family of Titan-Celts who gradually possessed all the eastern shores of the Mediterranean, and who extended their colonies over all the countries where Cyclopéan structures may be recognized; whether in the walls of Crotona, or the temple at Stonehénge; in the Cromlechs of Wales, or the trilithal monuments of Cimbrica Chersonesus; in Greece, or in Asia-Minor; in Syria, or in Egypt. It is with respect to Egypt alone, that an exception might perhaps be required; but history, while it deduces the origin of the worship of Minerva, at Sais, from the Phrygians, also relates of this people, that they were the oldest of mankind. The Cyclopéan architecture of Egypt may therefore be referred originally to the same source; but, as in making the following Observations brevity must be a principal object, it will be necessary to divest them of every thing that may seem like a Dissertation; and confine the statement, here offered, to the simple narrative of those facts, which have led to its introduction.

scholarly journals Samuel Phillips Bedson, 1886-1969

1970 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 14-35
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Secondary Education ◽  
General Education ◽  
Grammar School ◽  
Preparatory School ◽  
Postgraduate Study ◽  
Manual Skills ◽  
One Year ◽  
The University ◽  
Newcastle Upon Tyne

Samuel Phillips Bedson was born on 1 December 1886 in Newcastle upon Tyne. His father, Peter Phillips Bedson, was born in Manchester, educated at Manchester Grammar School and studied chemistry under Sir Henry Roscoe at Owens College, later Manchester University. After a period of postgraduate study at the University of Bonn, Peter Bedson returned to this country and was appointed to the Chair of Chemistry in the University of Durham (Durham College of Science, Newcastle upon Tyne). He held this Chair for 37 years until his retirement in 1921. His wife was the daughter of Samuel Hodgkinson, cotton spinner (Hollins Mill Co.) of Marple, Cheshire. There were three children of this marriage, Sam being the second. Along with his elder brother and four other boys he was educated privately until the age of ten. Then after one year at Newcastle Preparatory School he went to Abbotsholme School in Derbyshire where he spent the next six years. This school had been founded by Cecil Reddie as an experiment in secondary education because of his dissatisfaction with the narrowness of the curriculum in most Public Schools. Reddie planned ‘a programme of general education catering for physical and manual skills, for artistic and imaginative development, for literary and intellectual growth and for moral and religious training’.

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