"pen names were, in the main, all the work of one man. Hamilton was not able to continue the Greyfriars saga immediately, as the Amalgamated Press claimed ownership to all the characters except Billy Bunter who actually appeared in a Sparshott story in 1946. However, by 1947 they had relented, and Hamilton was then able to obtain a contract from publishers Charles Skilton for a series of hardback novels. The first of these, ""Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School"", was published in September 1947. It began a series that continued for the rest of Hamilton's life. In the 1950s the initial"
"the Crossflatts district of Bingley, before they moved to Luton, where he attended Stopsley Secondary School. Because of his early ill-health (he suffered from asthma and bronchitis), one of the reasons the family moved, his mother tended to keep him off school. His illness receded, and the family eventually returned to the north. Having seen an advertisement in the ""Daily Herald"", Bewes auditioned for the title role in ""Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School"" just before he turned 13, and was in the last two short-listed for the role, losing to Gerald Campion. However, he did appear in two early television"
"""The Schoolgirl""), which included stories by Hamilton about Cliff House using the pen-name Hilda Richards, supposedly the sister of Frank. The stories were soon taken over by other authors, also using the name Hilda Richards. The most prolific of these substitute writers was John W. Wheway, who wrote well over 500 Cliff House stories between 1931 and 1940. Hamilton wrote one more Cliff House story, in 1949, called ""Bessie Bunter of Cliff House School"", and published by Cassell. The character also appeared in comic-strip format; in addition, she featured as an adult character in """" where she married the former"
"The Gem The Gem (1907 – 1939) was a story paper published in Great Britain by Amalgamated Press in the early 20th century, predominantly featuring the activities of boys at the fictional school ""St. Jim's"". These stories were all written using the pen-name of Martin Clifford, the majority by Charles Hamilton who was more widely known as Frank Richards the creator of Billy Bunter. Many issues also included a shorter serial story (a variety of detective, school, and adventure yarns were featured); these parts of the paper were not written by Charles Hamilton. The most famous St Jim's characters were"
"Tom Merry Tom Merry is the principal character in the ""St Jim's"" stories which appeared in the boy's weekly paper, ""The Gem"", from 1907 to 1939. The stories were all written using the pen-name of Martin Clifford, the majority by Charles Hamilton who was more widely known as Frank Richards, the creator of Billy Bunter. The first Tom Merry story appeared in ""Gem"" number 3 dated 10 March 1907 and introduced him as a new boy at a school called Clavering College. In issue number 11 Claverling was closed down and the boys and masters transferred to St Jim's, a"
"adverse comment, with reviewers noting a ""certain emptiness of the sets"" and the fact that the school seemed deserted apart from the principal characters. The show did not lose its popularity over its nine years on the air. If anything, it gained in popularity and ratings as time went by, resulting in later seasons comprising greater numbers of episodes. It eventually came to an end due only to the death, in December 1961 at the age of 85, of Charles Hamilton, who had created the character of Bunter and who wrote all of the televised scripts over the entire nine"
"the subject matter was a school called Greyfriars and Hamilton was again to be the author, this time using the name Frank Richards . In 1915, Hamilton started a third school for Amalgamated Press, Rookwood, this time under the name Owen Conquest and featuring a leading character called Jimmy Silver. These appeared as part of the ""Boys' Friend Weekly"" publication and were shorter than the Greyfriars and St Jim’s stories . These three schools were to absorb most of Hamilton’s efforts over the next three decades and constitute the work for which he is best remembered. In the early days"
"Billy Bunter was educated, and had its own equivalent, his sister Bessie Bunter. The Schoolgirl The Schoolgirl was a British 28-page weekly story paper aimed at girls, subsequently reduced to 24 pages. Launched on 21 February 1922, it was published by . The first series ended on 13 March 1923, but the title was revived on 3 August 1929 and continued until 18 May 1940, when paper rationing during the Second World War resulted in its merger with ""Girls Crystal"". Most stories centred on the girls and staff of Cliff House School, a fictional establishment in Kent, on a cliff"
"Newark, but moved again around 1912. His stepfather got a new job at Crucible Steel Company, across the Passaic River in Harrison, New Jersey. The job paid more, and Willie would have to get him before his bosses got him drunk on his own money. He attended the Baxter School, rumored to be a school for bad children. The school was notorious for brawls between Irish, Italian, and African-American children. Willie was in Mrs. Black's fruit store and was caught with his hand in her register. According to Smith's memoirs, he had wanted to borrow a dime to see S.H."
"University in Abilene, Texas. In 1947, he transferred to Sul Ross State Teacher's College in Alpine, Texas, where he was a star football player and graduated in 1950. After two years of military service, he went on to earn a master's degree in the dramatic arts. He worked as a rodeo performer and as a bouncer in a bar while a student. He is remembered from his school days for his size of and weight of , and for being good-natured despite his intimidating size. Blocker was a high school English and drama teacher in Sonora, Texas, from 1953 to"
"small Town of Burlington in Otsego County, New York. It was there that Lord began his education, at a local public elementary school. At age 12, he transferred to Union Academy, a boarding school in Plainfield, New Hampshire. Union Academy was founded by his uncle, Hon. Daniel Kimball, and its current title, Kimball Union Academy, bears his name. He stayed at Union Academy for three years, graduating with a class of 40 boys and five girls. He then went to Madison Academy, and later Madison College. At age 17, he went off to Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. Not"
"limited means, his parents were Regina Mary (Buser) and Joseph Bernard Otter. His father was a journeyman, electrician, and the family lived in many rural locations in the Midwest and West during his youth, attending fifteen different schools. His nickname ""Butch"" was the result of a few schoolyard fights which resulted in minor bruises; Catholic nuns had initially nicknamed him ""Clem"" after a character in the Red Skelton Show. He graduated from St. Teresa's Academy (predecessor of Bishop Kelly High School) in Boise in 1962. Otter graduated from high school at age twenty – a childhood accident involving gasoline severely"
"hands of his father. Francis was a difficult man who liked to be in control and had a very bad temper. All household decisions had to be cleared through him and in fits of anger he used to beat Bill with a belt, sometimes until he bled. Nevertheless, Bill was a bright child, and excelled at school. After his Aunt Sally decided to pay his tuition, he attended the preparatory school for boys called Lawrenceville School. Once Bill began his education, Master's father considered him an adult and gave him little to no financial or family support. He rarely visited"
"who coveted his successful saloon business. After his mother became incapacitated by a stroke, Richard was separated from his younger brother and lived briefly with another uncle. At the age of 12, he had not yet had a single complete year of schooling. Soon Richard and his mother moved to the home of his maternal grandmother in the state capital, Jackson, Mississippi, where he lived from early 1920 until late 1925. There he was finally able to attend school regularly. After a year, at the age of 13 he entered the Jim Hill public school, where he was promoted to"
"a popular cartoon character. Bang studied the violin until he earned a hardship scholarship to the Stockbridge School in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, at which point he abandoned the instrument because the school did not have a music program. He had difficulty adjusting to life at the school, where he encountered racism and developed confusion about his identity, which he later blamed for his onset of schizophrenia. Bang felt that he had little in common with the largely privileged children at the school, who included Jackie Robinson, Jr. (son of baseball star Jackie Robinson) and Arlo Guthrie, and he struggled to reconcile"
"sent Bill to St Patrick's College, Goulburn as a boarder in 1921, where he quickly showed his athletic flair by becoming a member of the school's rugby league, tennis, athletics and cricket teams. He held a state record for the triple jump. At the same time, he also represented the town team. During his time at St Patrick's, O'Reilly developed his ruthless and parsimonious attitude towards bowling. After three years at the Irish Catholic school, funded by a scholarship, O'Reilly completed his Leaving Certificate. O'Reilly won a scholarship to the Sydney Teachers College at Sydney University, to train as a"
"with Lt. Chuck Brestle while his family was stationed at the Naval Air Station Key West that same year. From 1965 to 1967 he attended Virginia Beach High School until the school system split students to attend the newly created First Colonial High School. He remained at First Colonial High School until 1967 when his father was transferred to Brunswick Naval Air Station as Senior Executive Officer. He graduated from Brunswick High School in Brunswick, Maine in 1969. While in high school, he was a stand-out athlete playing football, ice hockey, and baseball while also swimming and running track. He"
"Hall School, in Washington, Connecticut, where he had his first sexual experiences with classmates. In 1934 he transferred to Phillips Exeter Academy, where he was the lead actor in theatrical productions at the Old Farragut Playhouse, Rye Beach, New Hampshire. One newspaper said: ""Otis Bigelow as ""Corey Masters"" did a very fine job and should be mentioned as one of the outstanding members of the cast."" After high school he lost his father and his uncle Robert W. Keyes of Utica, New York, who had married his aunt, Olivia Bigelow Keyes (1894-1982), became his guardian. He entered Hamilton College in"
"Welsh rugby union centre, Bleddyn Williams believed Richard ""had distinct possibilities as a player"". From the age of five to eight, Richard was educated at the Eastern Primary School while he attended the Boys' segment of the same school from eight to twelve years old. He took a scholarship exam for admission into Port Talbot Secondary School in March 1937 and passed it. Biographer Hollis Alpert notes that both Daddy Ni and Ifor considered Richard's education to be ""of paramount importance"" and planned to send him to the University of Oxford. Richard became the first member of his family to"
"the police ruled the wounding unintentional. Still, this act did not go unnoticed in the exclusive Palm Beach community, and the story of the manner in which his mother had perished at the hands of his father again gained wide circulation. Billy was sent to a mental hospital in St. Louis for help, but threats to run away caused Mortimer and Laura to bring their grandson home. Bill then attended Green Valley, an alternative school based on the principles of English educator A. S. Neill, in Orange City, Florida, from 1965 to 1966. Living in a wealthy section of Palm"
"and display them, before going to school. Harold had been diagnosed with tuberculosis the previous year; when their mother took him to Arizona in the hopes of improving his health, the demands on Richard increased, causing him to give up football. Nevertheless, Richard graduated from Whittier High third in his class of 207 students. Nixon was offered a tuition grant to attend Harvard University, but Harold's continued illness and the need for their mother to care for him meant Richard was needed at the store. He remained in his hometown and attended Whittier College, with his expenses there covered by"
"away from home to go to school. At the age of 15, Henry—he was known by his middle name as a boy—was sent to Union College in Schenectady, New York. Admitted to the sophomore class, Seward was an outstanding student and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Seward's fellow students included Richard M. Blatchford, who became a lifelong legal and political associate. Samuel Seward kept his son short on cash, and in December 1818—during the middle of Henry's final year at Union—the two quarreled about money. The younger Seward returned to Schenectady, but soon left school in company with a"
"official biographer Michael Billington as ""a solid, red-brick, three-storey villa just off the noisy, bustling, traffic-ridden thoroughfare of the Lower Clapton Road"". In 1940 and 1941, after the Blitz, Pinter was evacuated from their house in London to Cornwall and Reading. Billington states that the ""life-and-death intensity of daily experience"" before and during the Blitz left Pinter with profound memories ""of loneliness, bewilderment, separation and loss: themes that are in all his works."" Pinter discovered his social potential as a student at Hackney Downs School, a London grammar school, between 1944 and 1948. ""Partly through the school and partly through"
"influenced and mentored by Henrietta Mears, the director of Christian Education at the First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood. In addition, Bill was also influenced by the theology and teachings of the prominent American evangelist Billy Graham. While studying at Fuller Theological Seminary, Bright felt what he regarded as the call of God to reach out to university students. Abandoning his studies at Fuller, Bright started Campus Crusade at the UCLA campus. By 1952, Campus Crusade had converted 250 UCLA students including decathlete and future film actor Rafer Johnson. With the establishment of other Campus Crusade branches in other universities, the"
"Newington, London. His father was a glass and china merchant. His family were Russian Jews (originally surnamed ""Misell"") and he described himself in an interview as an atheist, but also stated that he ""enjoy[ed] being Jewish"". He was interested in acting from an early age and attended Gladys Gordon's Academy of Dramatic Arts in Walthamstow from the age of seven. He did well at Southgate County School (now Southgate School), a state grammar school at Palmers Green, Middlesex. He then studied physical chemistry at University College, Oxford, for six months. There he met his contemporary, Richard Burton, and together they"
"school genre, which includes Rudyard Kipling's Stalky & Co., Enid Blyton's ""Malory Towers"", ""St. Clare's"" and the ""Naughtiest Girl"" series, and Frank Richards's ""Billy Bunter"" novels: the ""Harry Potter"" books are predominantly set in Hogwarts, a fictional British boarding school for wizards, where the curriculum includes the use of magic. In this sense they are ""in a direct line of descent from Thomas Hughes's ""Tom Brown's School Days"" and other Victorian and Edwardian novels of British public school life"", though they are, as many note, more contemporary, grittier, darker, and more mature than the typical boarding school novel, addressing serious"
"courage in aid of others; his ability to be generous, on the rare occasions when he has food or cash; and above all his very real love and concern for his mother. All these, combined with Bunter's cheery optimism, his comically transparent untruthfulness and inept attempts to conceal his antics from his schoolmasters and schoolfellows, combine to make a character that succeeds in being highly entertaining but which rarely attracts the reader's lasting sympathy. Charles Hamilton invented the character for an unpublished story in the late 1890s. He claimed Bunter was derived from three persons: a corpulent editor, a short-sighted"
"The Secret Seven (Frank Richards) The Secret Seven series is an 11 part series of stories published in The Magnet magazine in 1934. The author was prolific writer Charles Hamilton, writing under the pen name Frank Richards. The series was republished by the Howard Baker (Greyfriars Press) as two volumes of Magnet facsimile editions in 1976. The stories are set in the fictional Greyfriars School. Venerable and respected Headmaster Dr. Locke, along with popular Head Prefect George Wingate and several other senior prefects, are all hospitalised after a road accident. Portly and pompous Fifth Form master Mr Prout is appointed"
"as ""Billy"" until kindergarten, when he expressed a preference for ""Mitt"". In 1953, the family moved from Detroit to the affluent suburb of Bloomfield Hills and his father became the chairman and CEO of American Motors the following year and helped the company avoid bankruptcy and return to profitability. By 1959, his father had become a nationally known figure in print and on television, and Mitt idolized him. Romney attended public elementary schools until the seventh grade, when he enrolled as one of only a few Mormon students at Cranbrook School, a private upscale boys' preparatory school a few miles"
"many smiling faces as the Greyfriars fellows march out of the Hall. The Secret Seven (Frank Richards) The Secret Seven series is an 11 part series of stories published in The Magnet magazine in 1934. The author was prolific writer Charles Hamilton, writing under the pen name Frank Richards. The series was republished by the Howard Baker (Greyfriars Press) as two volumes of Magnet facsimile editions in 1976. The stories are set in the fictional Greyfriars School. Venerable and respected Headmaster Dr. Locke, along with popular Head Prefect George Wingate and several other senior prefects, are all hospitalised after a"
"became known as the ""Brill Bend"". After graduating from Medford High School in 1965, he enrolled at Oregon State University in Corvallis. The school's coach, Berny Wagner, believed that Fosbury would eventually achieve greater results using the western roll and convinced him to continue practicing the old technique through his freshman year, although he was allowed to use the ""flop"" in freshman meets. The debate over technique ended during Fosbury's sophomore year, however, when he cleared in his first meet of the season, shattering the school record. Fosbury later recalled: After the meet, Berny came up to me and said,"
"small town outside of Houston, for over 15 years along with his brother Keith Richard. He was raised Catholic and his parents were frequent attendees at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church in the adjacent town of Hitchcock, Texas. Kilroy excelled both in academics and athletics as a teenager, and played baseball, basketball, and golf with his friends at school. He was in the Boy Scouts of America and an honors student at Santa Fe High School, where he was member of the student council, and was ranked 14th in a class of 210 students. Upon graduation in 1986, he"
"lived in Washington, D.C.; both were born in 1863. William F. was born in Prussia and Nannie in Virginia. His parents were William Eckstein, a chauffeur, and Charlotte Eckstein, a seamstress of note. Eckstine was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; a State Historical Marker is placed at 5913 Bryant St, Highland Park, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to mark the house where he grew up. Billy's sister, Maxine (married name Whedbee), was a well-respected Spanish teacher at Taylor Allderdice High School in Pittsburgh. He attended Peabody High School before moving to Washington, DC. He attended Armstrong High School, St. Paul Normal and Industrial School,"