Who was the founder of Harrow Public School?
"Harrow International School Hong Kong Harrow International School Hong Kong () is a British international boarding and day, all-through school in Tuen Mun, Hong Kong. When it opened in September 2012, it became the first British boarding school in Hong Kong. It was also the third in the Harrow family of schools in the Asia region in association with Harrow School and The John Lyon School in London. The School provides a British independent style of education from Early Years to Y13. The School is built on the site of a former army barracks, in So Kwun Wat, Tuen Mun"
"term. While at Harrow, he was housemaster of The Grove boarding house. He died at Moux, Côte-d'Or, France. Cyril Norwood said of him that he had ""kept the eternal boy alive within his own breast to the very end"". Edward Ernest Bowen Edward Ernest Bowen (30 March 1836 – 8 April 1901) was an influential schoolmaster at Harrow School from 1859 until his death, and the author of the Harrow school song, Forty Years On. Edward Bowen was born in Glenmore, County Wicklow, Ireland; his elder brother was Charles Bowen, a well-known judge. He was educated at Blackheath Proprietary School"
"Matthew Benjamin Farthing. Recruited as part of the Senior Management Team that established Harrow International School in Bangkok in 1997, he had special responsibility to oversee the developing curriculum and ensure that academic standards were maintained. Harrow Beijing is a coeducational day school that initially taught pupils from age 11, unlike its namesake in the United Kingdom, which only teaches boys, is a boarding school, and begins instruction when its students are 13. Jehangir S. Pocha of ""The New York Times"" said that Harrow, which uses English as its instructional language, has ""a wider approach to education"" than traditional Chinese"
"Aberdeen Place Aberdeen Place is a street in St John's Wood, London. It was laid out after 1823 on the site of a farm once owned by the wealthy yeoman John Lyon, who founded Harrow School in 1571. The farm was located in the former Lisson Manor and was held by the governors of the school, with the proceeds going towards the maintenance of Harrow Road between Harrow and London. The farm was built over from 1823 onwards with the newly constructed streets being named after governors of Harrow School. In the case of Aberdeen Place, it was named after"
"George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, who had gone to school at Harrow and was Prime Minister from 1852–5. Aberdeen Place Aberdeen Place is a street in St John's Wood, London. It was laid out after 1823 on the site of a farm once owned by the wealthy yeoman John Lyon, who founded Harrow School in 1571. The farm was located in the former Lisson Manor and was held by the governors of the school, with the proceeds going towards the maintenance of Harrow Road between Harrow and London. The farm was built over from 1823 onwards with the newly"
"Harlem Youth Opportunities Unlimited Harlem Youth Opportunities Unlimited, more commonly called HARYOU, was an American social activism organization founded by psychologists Kenneth Clark and Mamie Phipps Clark in 1962. Its director was Cyril deGrasse Tyson, father of astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, and founding member of the 100 Black Men of America. The group worked to increase opportunities in education and employment for young blacks in Harlem. It also was designed to teach residents of Harlem how to work with governmental agencies to meet their demands. Formed in 1962, HARYOU achieved national prominence quickly. In 1964 the Johnson administration provided $110"
"full-boarding schools in Britain, the others being Eton College, Radley College and Winchester College. Shrewsbury, Charterhouse, Rugby and Westminster have since become co-educational. Harrow's uniform includes straw hats, morning suits, top hats and canes. Its alumni include eight former British or Indian Prime Ministers (including Peel, Palmerston, Baldwin, Churchill and Nehru), foreign politicians, former and current members of both houses of the U.K. Parliament, five kings and several other members of various royal families, three Nobel Prize winners, twenty Victoria Cross and one George Cross holders, and many figures in the arts and sciences. The school was founded in February"
"majority of teaching staff are recruited from the United Kingdom, Ireland, and the Commonwealth. The current headmaster, Michael Farley, joined the school in 2012. Harrow International School was founded in 1998 and first operated as a language school at Riverine Place Condo. The first headmaster was Mr Stuart Morris, who had previously been headmaster of a school in Malaysia. Mr Morris oversaw a period of growth as the school's enrolment rose to over 700 students in 2002. Dr J Mark Hensman, previously a headmaster in his native New Zealand, took over as headmaster and oversaw the school's relocation to a"
"two sons and three daughters by his first wife, and three more sons by his second wife including the historian Sir James Butler. As his father had, Butler served as headmaster of Harrow School (1860 to 1885). As headmaster, he influenced many young people, including Stanley Baldwin (Prime Minister), Lord Davidson (Archbishop of Canterbury), Galsworthy of the Forsyte Saga, 10 bishops including Bishop Gore, 17 judges, 4 viceroys, 12 governors, 12 ambassadors, 33 privy councillors, and 64 generals. He changed Harrow from a hide-bound and backward seventeenth century institution to a rebuilt and well-equipped contemporary school. He was then appointed"
"Harrow, Ontario Harrow is a community located in the town of Essex, Essex County, Ontario, Canada. First known as ""Munger's Corners"" after John Munger, the first postmaster, the town was renamed by John O'Connor in 1857 for the exclusive Harrow School in London. Hiram Walker, of Canadian Club Whisky fame, is credited with putting Harrow on the map. Walker built the railway, which brought grain from the south end of the county into the city for use in his distillery. The tracks remained for over 100 years, and were removed in 1992. The line became the Chrysler Canada Greenway, part"
"He oversaw many important building projects, including the new Central Feeding block; the New Knoll boarding house; and new physics and maths schools. He retired in 1981. Hoban died on 6 July 2003, aged 81. Michael Hoban Brian Michael Stanislaus Hoban (7 October 1921 in British Guiana – 6 July 2003), was a teacher of classics, and Headmaster of Harrow School from 1971–81. His father died when he was a small child and he spent two years in an orphanage. In 1934 he won a scholarship to Charterhouse, where he remained until the onset of World War II in 1939."
"the degree of D.D., and, dying on 12 September 1771, he was buried in Harrow church. He was the friend of Samuel Johnson and the master of Samuel Parr and Sir William Jones, both of whom in later years remembered him favourably. William Whately called him ""the best schoolmaster in England"". Sumner published ""Concio ad Clerum"" (London, 1768), which Samuel Parr praised for its Latinity. On 3 August 1760 Sumner married the sister of William Arden, a scholar of King's College. Robert Carey Sumner Robert Carey Sumner (1729–1771) was Master of Harrow School in England. Born on 9 March 1728–9"
"order to provide for early diagnosis of Tuberculosis. A newspaper reported that all the pupils were ""free from chest troubles"". Dr. Moore was not, however. He underwent several operations during 1952 but ""refused to leave his post"". He died at Harrow from Lung cancer on 10 January 1953. Ralph Westwood Moore Ralph Westwood Moore (1906 - 10 January 1953) was an English classicist and author who became the headmaster of Harrow School in 1942. Ralph Moore was born in Wolverhampton in the late summer of 1906, the elder son of George Moore. George Moore is described as and artist and"
"Chris Blackwell. In sports, the school produced the first two Wimbledon champions (Spencer Gore and Frank Hadow) as well as FA Cup founder C.W. Alcock and current England rugby international players Billy Vunipola and Maro Itoje. Alumni in the arts and media industry include actors Benedict Cumberbatch and Cary Elwes, singer James Blunt and horse racing pundit John McCririck. Margaret Thatcher sent her son, Mark, to Harrow. Fictional characters who have attented Harrow include Brett Sinclair of The Persuaders!, and Mr. Pocket from Charles Dickens's book, Great Expectations. Harrow School Harrow School is an independent boarding school for boys in"
"born in 1992. Barnaby Lenon Barnaby Lenon (born 10 May 1954) is a British schoolmaster and former headmaster of Harrow School in Harrow in north-west London (he retired in August 2011). He is chairman of the Independent Schools Council (ISC). He is also a governor of other schools, and from 2011 to 2012 was Vice-President of the Royal Geographical Society. In 2012 he helped start a Free School in east London, the London Academy of Excellence, and is now the chairman of governors. In 2012 he also joined the board of Ofqual, which manages standards in public examinations in England."
"schools, create preschool classes, tutor older students after school, and job opportunities for youth who dropped out. The Johnson administration earmarked more than $100 million for the organization. When it was placed under the administration of a pet project of Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. in 1964, the two men clashed over appointment of a director and its direction. Clark used HARYOU to press for changes to the educational system to help improve black children's performance. While he at first supported decentralization of city schools, after a decade of experience, Clark believed that this option had not been able to"
"urban district was granted a charter of incorporation and became a municipal borough. A corporation consisting of a mayor, 12 aldermen and 36 councillors replaced the urban district council. A coat of arms was granted on 25 January 1938. It was composed of a green shield, representing the greenery of the borough, flanked by two lions, representing John Lyon, founder of Harrow School, whose home was at Preston Manor in Wembley. Each of the lions bears a flag; one depicts a balance and the other a cornucopia, or horn of plenty. Atop the shield is a crown, and beneath is"
"hope that the Kennedy-Johnson administration’s War on Poverty would address problems of increasing social isolation, economic dependence and declining municipal services for many African Americans (Freeman, 2008). Clark in 1962 was among the founders of Harlem Youth Opportunities Unlimited (HARYOU), an organization devoted to developing educational and job opportunities. With HARYOU, Clark conducted an extensive sociological study of Harlem. He measured IQ scores, crime frequency, age frequency of the population, drop-out rates, church and school locations, quality of housing, family incomes, drugs, STD rates, homicides, and a number of other areas. It recruited educational experts to help to reorganize Harlem"
"Ralph Westwood Moore Ralph Westwood Moore (1906 - 10 January 1953) was an English classicist and author who became the headmaster of Harrow School in 1942. Ralph Moore was born in Wolverhampton in the late summer of 1906, the elder son of George Moore. George Moore is described as and artist and designer of wrought iron gates and fences. His mother, born Emily Skidmore, also came from an English middle-class family. He attended Wolverhampton Grammar School and then, as a scholar, Christ Church, Oxford where he achieved academic distinction. After this he became a teacher, employed as an assistant master"
"Michael Hoban Brian Michael Stanislaus Hoban (7 October 1921 in British Guiana – 6 July 2003), was a teacher of classics, and Headmaster of Harrow School from 1971–81. His father died when he was a small child and he spent two years in an orphanage. In 1934 he won a scholarship to Charterhouse, where he remained until the onset of World War II in 1939. He spent the war as a captain with the Westminster Dragoons, and was mentioned in dispatches. From 1946–49 he was a student of classics at University College, Oxford. In 1947 he married Jasmine Holmes, the"
"Yarm School, which was founded in 1978. The majority of public schools are affiliated with, or were established by, a Christian denomination, principally the Church of England, but in some cases the Roman Catholic and Methodist churches; or else identify themselves as ""non-denominational Christian"". A small number are inherently secular, most notably Oswestry School. Harrow graduate Stanley Baldwin wrote that when he became Prime Minister before World War II, he wanted to have six Harrovians in his government: ""To make a cabinet is like making a jig-saw puzzle fit, and I managed to make my six fit by keeping the"
"In an author's note, Frances Vernon explains that she based the central plot on events surrounding the resignation of Charles John Vaughan, Headmaster of Harrow School 1844-59, as recounted in the memoirs of John Addington Symonds, though she adds that many of the characters have undergone considerable elaboration or, in some cases, total invention. The Fall of Doctor Onslow The Fall of Doctor Onslow is a novel by Frances Vernon, published in 1994. Many of its characters are loosely based on real people, sometimes with names changed. The story begins in 1858 at Charton School, a fictional English public school"
"Harrow Way Community School Harrow Way Community School is a coeducational community secondary school. It is located on the historic Harrow Way in Andover, in the English county of Hampshire. It is administered by Hampshire County Council which coordinates the schools admissions. Harrow Way has also gained specialist status as a Maths and Computing College. The school offers GCSEs, BTECs and other level 1 and 2 courses as programmes of study for pupils. Harrow Way School was opened in September 1967. Heads: The school was visited by Ofsted in 1995, 2000, 2002, 2007, 2013 & 2017. The most recent judgement"
"Harry Harlow Harry Frederick Harlow (October 31, 1905 – December 6, 1981) was an American psychologist best known for his maternal-separation, dependency needs, and social isolation experiments on rhesus monkeys, which manifested the importance of caregiving and companionship to social and cognitive development. He conducted most of his research at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where humanistic psychologist Abraham Maslow worked with him for a short period of time. Harlow's experiments were controversial; they included creating inanimate surrogate mothers for the rhesus infants from wire and wool. Each infant became attached to its particular mother, recognizing its unique face and preferring"
"no dormitories: a boy shares his room for the first three to six terms and thereafter has a room to himself. Harrow was featured in a Sky 1 documentary series entitled """" in 2013. In February 2016, the actor Laurence Fox claimed Harrow threatened legal action to prevent him discussing the racism, homophobia and bullying he allegedly encountered as a pupil at the school. Harrow alumni are known as Old Harrovians, they include seven former British Prime Ministers including Winston Churchill and Robert Peel and the first Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru. Twenty Old Harrovians have been awarded the"
"married into the Jones family, shipping magnates of Glamorgan. During this period, a member of the family, Major Richard Thomas Lyons MD (1875–1903), owned Cherry Hinton Hall, Cambridge. Sir John Lyon (b.1353) owned lands in Middlesex in addition to lands in Suffolk and Norfolk, which he inherited from his ancestors. Sir Henry Lyon (b. 1355) moved to Middlesex. From the Middlesex line of the Lyons family descended Sir John Lyon, Lord Mayor of London for 1553-1554, and John Lyon (d.1592), who was the founder of Harrow School, after whom The John Lyon School, the John Lyon's Charity, and a Harrow"
"June 1929 he married Hilda Francesca Lubbock, daughter of Sir Nevile Lubbock (1839–1914) and Constance Ann Herschel (daughter of astronomer John Herschel and granddaughter of astronomer William Herschel). Paul Cairn Vellacott Paul Cairn Vellacott CBE, DSO (24 May 1891 - 15 November 1954) served as Headmaster of Harrow School and Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge. The son of William Edward Vellacott (a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants who lived at Budleigh Salterton, Devon), he was educated at Marlborough College and Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he studied the Historical Tripos. He served as Headmaster of Harrow School from 1934 to 1939"
"in September 1975. Later, in 1998, the school became coeducational and changed its name to Harrow High School, a specialist sports college. The school has gained a number of national awards for the quality of its provision, including the Artsmark Gold award (2003), Sportsmark award (2002), Investors in People (1999) and Careers Education and Guidance award (1996). On 1 August 2011, Harrow High School officially gained academy status. The name ""Harrow High School"" previously belonged to an independent school which, until its closure in the late 1980s, occupied a site across the road from the current school, on Gayton Road."
"Harrow History Prize The Harrow History Prize or the Townsend Warner Preparatory Schools History Prize is a prestigious annual history competition for children at British preparatory schools. It currently attracts around 800 entrants each year. The prize was established in 1885 by E. E. Bowen, a housemaster at Harrow School. He wanted to encourage a move away from purely classical education and offered a prize in history to pupils of Elstree Preparatory School. In 1895 the Dragon School also started to take part, and the competition had spread to thirteen other schools by 1905 with 39 entrants taking part that"
"Joseph Drury Joseph Drury (1750 – 1834) was Head Master of Harrow School 1785 – 1805, and first of a dynasty of Drurys to teach at Harrow. He married Louisa Heath, from whose brother Benjamin Heath, he took over the head mastership of Harrow in 1785. (Another of Louisa's brothers, George Heath, was Head Master of Eton College 1792 – 1802.) His brother Mark Drury was Second Master at Harrow. He married Catherine Angelo, daughter of the fencing master at Eton, Domenico Angelo, and sister of the celebrated Eton Dame, Florella Angelo. His son Henry Joseph Drury (1778 – 1841)"
"Krishna Avanti Primary School, Harrow The Krishna Avanti Primary School, Harrow, is Britain's first state-funded Hindu school. Krishna Avanti Primary School is also the name of a second primary school in Leicester, which opened in September 2011. Krishna Avanti Primary School opened in borrowed space in nearby Little Stanmore School in September 2008. A permanent location was built at the William Ellis Playing Fields in Edgware, suggested to Avanti Schools Trust as a possible site by Harrow Council, opening in September 2009. In January 2010, the school held an event for the press to see the new school.The Queen visited"
"George Butler (headmaster) George Butler (5 July 1774 – 30 April 1853) was an English schoolmaster and divine, Headmaster of Harrow School from 1805 to 1829 and Dean of Peterborough from 1842 to his death in 1853. Son of Weeden Butler (1742–1823), George Butler was educated at the Chelsea school where his father taught and proceeded to Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he graduated senior wrangler in 1794 (M.A. 1797; B.D. 1804; D.D. (""litterae regiae"") 1805). He became a fellow of Sidney Sussex, first as mathematical lecturer, and afterwards as classical tutor. He was elected a public examiner of the"
"16, although the entry age later became 11 when Harrow Council reverted to the two-tier system in line with other London boroughs. The first lay headmaster/headteacher was appointed in 1981 and most teachers are lay staff but the school remains under the trusteeship of the Salvatorians, whose provincial office is located down the road from the school and provincial priest serves as Vice Chair of Governors. The College was a grant-maintained school until the scheme was abolished and it switched to become a voluntary aided school. In 2012, the school became an academy. In the school there is a house"