Crake, Augustine David (1836–1890), religious writer and schoolmaster, the eldest son of Jesse Crake, was born on 1 October 1836 at Chalgrove, Oxfordshire, where his father kept a 'middle-class school'. He broke away from the strong Calvinistic surroundings amid which he had been brought up and was baptized into the ...
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Crake, Augustine David (1836–1890), religious writer and schoolmaster
Thomas Seccombe
revised by Nilanjana Banerji
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Jones, Richard (1603–1673), schoolmaster and translator of religious texts
Nicholas Keene
Jones, Richard (1603–1673), schoolmaster and translator of religious texts, was the son of John Lewis of Llansannan, Denbighshire. He matriculated at Balliol College, Oxford, on 18 March 1625, and graduated BA in February 1629 and MA in June 1633. During the Commonwealth he became an itinerant minister. At some time before February 1657 he was appointed schoolmaster at ...
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Pound, William (bap. 1807, d. 1881), headmaster and religious writer
Arthur Burns
Pound, William (bap. 1807, d. 1881), headmaster and religious writer, was the son of Matthew Pound, gentleman. A William Pound, son of Matthew Pound and his wife, Sarah, was baptized at Great Stanmore, Middlesex, on 18 March 1807. After attending Grantham School, Pound...
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Wharton, John (fl. 1575–1578), religious writer and schoolmaster
E. I. Carlyle
revised by Stephen Wright
Wharton, John (fl. 1575–1578), religious writer and schoolmaster, appears to have lived in London. He signed the preface to A misticall devise of the spiritual and godly love betwene Christ the spouse, and the church or congregation (1575), attributed on the title-page to ...
