Which schoolboy, created by Anthony Buckeridge, attended Linbury Court School?
"were rewritten completely for a Norwegian setting with Norwegian names; Jennings is called ""Stompa"" in the Norwegian books. More recently, the first four books were published in an omnibus edition by Prion, ""The Best of Jennings: Four Utterly Wizard Adventures All Jolly Well Complete and Unabridged"" (2010). In 2011, six titles were produced as unabridged audio books Buckeridge made no small contribution to postwar British humour, a fact acknowledged by such comedians as Stephen Fry. The deftly worded farce and delightful understatement of his narratives has been compared to the work of P. G. Wodehouse, Ben Hecht and Ben Travers."
"Charles Edgar Buckeridge Charles Edgar Buckeridge (1864–11 May 1898) was a Church Decorative Artist and the son of Charles Buckeridge, a British Gothic Revival architect. Born in Headington, Oxford in 1864 he died at 64 Agamemnon Road, West Hampstead in 1898. Born in 1864, the son of Annie and Charles Buckeridge, he trained with Burlison & Grylls, ecclesiastical decorators. He exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 1882 with a painting of Hampton Court and became known for his religious works, described as a ""highly esteemed painter in this field"". He was employed by C. Hodgson Fowler, Arthur Blomfield,"
"one son, Albert. In 1882 his address was given as 4, Duke Street, Portland Place and in 1891 Wilmot Place, St Pancras. He later lived at Mortimer Street, Marylebone. Incomplete. (After Andrew Saint with additions) Charles Edgar Buckeridge Charles Edgar Buckeridge (1864–11 May 1898) was a Church Decorative Artist and the son of Charles Buckeridge, a British Gothic Revival architect. Born in Headington, Oxford in 1864 he died at 64 Agamemnon Road, West Hampstead in 1898. Born in 1864, the son of Annie and Charles Buckeridge, he trained with Burlison & Grylls, ecclesiastical decorators. He exhibited at the Royal Academy"
"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"
"Anthony Murphy (actor) Anthony Murphy (born 1956 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentinian-born English painter, with strong Irish connections. He exhibits regularly in Mayfair, London and Dublin, Ireland Murphy was a child-actor, his roles including the eponymous hero in the British television serial, ""Tom Brown's Schooldays"" (1971), which won Emmys for Murphy as 'Best Lead Actor in a Miniseries' for his role as Tom Brown and as 'Best Miniseries' after it was screened by PBS in 1973. Despite the critical acclaim, he never again worked as an actor. Murphy attended New College at Oxford University from 1970-1975 to study Philosophy,"
"School"" and ""The Barnyard Club"" ran briefly in ""The Philadelphia Inquirer"". In the ""New York Herald"" ran ""Buddy Tucker"", about a bellhop, and ""Pore Lil Mose"", the first strip with an African-American title character—a prankster portrayed in a heavily stereotyped manner. Outcault introduced Buster Brown to the pages of the ""Herald"" on May 4, 1902, about a mischievous, well-to-do boy dressed in Little Lord Fauntleroy style, and his pit-bull terrier Tige. The strip and characters were more popular than the Yellow Kid, and Outcault licensed the name for a wide number of consumer products, such as children's shoes from the"
"Tory Boy Tory Boy was a character in a television sketch by comedian Harry Enfield which portrayed a young, male, Conservative MP. The term has since been used as a caricature of young Conservative MPs. Tory Boy was a repulsive thirteen-year-old, combining the characteristics of a snobbish, unpopular boy who went to school with Enfield, and those of an imagined younger version of William Hague. Enfield also claimed to have mixed other recent Conservative politicians such as Michael Howard and Michael Portillo into the character, alleging that they were ""Tory Boys who have never grown up."" The traits of ""Tory"
"Sawyer"" (1876), Charles Dudley Warner's ""Being a Boy"" (1877), William Dean Howells's ""A Boy's Town"" (1877), James Otis Kaler's ""Toby Tyler; or, Ten Weeks with a Circus"" (1877), Hamlin Garland's ""Boy Life on the Prairie"" (1899), and Booth Tarkington's ""Penrod"" (1913). A precursor was Horatio Alger, Jr.'s ""Ragged Dick"" series beginning in 1868, though scholar Kenneth B. Kidd says his works are generally excluded from the list. Aldrich also owed inspiration to the popular British book ""Tom Brown's School Days"" (1857) by Thomas Hughes. The bad boy genre, intended to be read by both children and adults, shows boys as"
"Yardley Court Yardley Court is an independent day preparatory school for boys in Tonbridge, Kent, England, founded in 1898 by Arthur Bickmore and his wife Lillian. It is a public school in the British sense of the term. There are currently around 600 boys in the school, aged between 7 and 13. The school occupies a site of 65 acres just outside Tonbridge, and is self-contained on listed park land. Since its foundation the school has been located on two sites, including the current site. Originally the school was situated on Yardley Park Road, close to Tonbridge School. For the"
"Len Buckeridge Leonard Walter Buckeridge (15 June 1936 – 11 March 2014) was an Australian businessman known for founding the Buckeridge Group of Companies. He attended Perth Modern School then trained as an architect at Perth Technical College. In his final year of Architecture he won the James Hardie Prize for his thesis ""The Economical House"". He built high-rise buildings in Perth and elsewhere through his company, Buckeridge Group of Companies. He also owned James Point Pty Ltd. In September 2012, he sued a former fork-lift driver who allegedly posted defamatory comments on Facebook about him. The former employee was"
"Harry Enfield Henry Richard Enfield (born 30 May 1961) is an English comedian, actor, writer, and director. He is known in particular for his television work, including ""Harry Enfield's Television Programme"" and ""Harry & Paul"", and for the creation and portrayal of comedy characters such as Kevin the Teenager and Loadsamoney. Born in Horsham, Sussex, he is the oldest of three children, the son of English television, radio and newspaper journalist and presenter Edward Enfield. He has two sisters. He was educated at the independent Arundale School in Pulborough, Dorset House School, Worth School, Collyer's Sixth Form College (all in"
"Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars is a novel by Daniel Pinkwater, published in 1979. At the beginning of the story, protagonist Leonard Neeble attends a new school, Bat Masterson Junior High, where he is bullied by his classmates and neglected by the staff. At length, he is befriended by the title character, Alan Mendelsohn, and is thereafter happier and more capable. When Alan starts a school-wide quarrel over his claim to Martian ancestry, both are suspended from school for one week; during which, they meet Samuel Klugarsh, the owner of an occult bookstore,"
"Inglewhite Road, behind the Alston Arms. As of 2011, Longridge has its own monthly farmers' market but has recently stopped. John Farnworth, a freestyle footballer; Alan Kelly, footballer who played for the Irish national team along with Preston North End; Andrew Miller, who currently plays cricket for Warwickshire (all of which were pupils at the local Catholic high school, St Cecilia's RC High School). Actress Christina Chong lived here and trained at the Sutcliffe School of Dance. Composer Ernest Tomlinson lived close to Longridge until his death in 2015. His library of light orchestral music was housed in his barn."
"Kingwell Court Preparatory School Kingwell Court Preparatory School was a British boarding school for boys. The school was located in a remodelled Tudor home near Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire and prepared boys for the Common Entrance Exam to enter a British Public School. It was founded by Mr Sydney Allen, originally as Kingwell Hall at Timsbury. In the 1930s it moved to Bradford-on-Avon. At the death of Mr Allen, at the beginning of the war, it was amalgamated with Kilvington Hall, a prep school situated in Enfield Chase and which had to be evacuated because of enemy action. This school had two"
"Glengorse Preparatory School in Chesterfield Road between 1896 and 1900. Count László Almásy, the basis of the lead character of ""The English Patient"", was educated by a private tutor at Berrow, and was a member of the pioneering Eastbourne Flying Club. Douglas Bader, who became a successful Second World War fighter pilot despite having lost both legs in a flying accident, attended Temple Grove Preparatory School in Compton Place Road. The philosopher A. J. Ayer was a pupil at Ascham St Vincent's School in Carlisle Road. The artist Eric Ravilious grew up, was educated and taught in Eastbourne. In addition"
"the lottery and become multi-millionaires. An upper class twit who is usually being ripped off by one of his 'jolly nice' prep-school chums. He is an exaggerated version of ""posh"" yet pleasant and stupid people that Enfield knew. He is a fictional Old Ardinian with an eccentric public school-influenced dress-sense involving jeans and a school blazer worn over a striped rugby shirt. The character was initially created by Ian Hislop and Nick Newman, who are both Old Ardinians and wrote the character as an antidote to contemporary portrayals of ex-public schoolboys as sharp-minded high-achieving young men, and instead chose to"
"in February. The 33rd Walsall Scout group is based at Aldridge Methodist Church and holds Beavers, Cubs and scouts for boys and girls aged 6–14. They go on annual scout camps and have been to Beaudesert Campsite and Blackwell Adventure. The 49th Walsall Scout Group is the third Scout Group in Aldridge based at St. Thomas's Church in Churchside Way on the estate just off Lazy Hill Road and Greenwood Road, it also caters for boys and girls between the ages of 6 and 18. Actor Richard Sinnott attended Leighswood School, then Aldridge School. He has appeared in Coronation Street,"
"Kingsbury High School Kingsbury High School is a large two-site high school with academy status in Kingsbury, London, England. Kingsbury High School is the result of the 1967 merger between Kingsbury County Grammar School and the two former secondary modern schools, Tyler’s Croft Girls and Tyler’s Croft Boys. The Upper School site at Princes Avenue, London, NW9, is recognisable to many British adults because it was used as the set for one of the original series of the popular children's drama series ""Grange Hill"" for its first two series in the late 1970s. It was also attended by George Michael"
"Squire of The Stone Roses both attended Altrincham Grammar School for Boys, and Paul Young of Sad Café and Mike and the Mechanics lived in Altrincham until his death in 2000. Hewlett Johnson, later known as the ""Red Dean"" of Canterbury, was curate, and later vicar of St Margaret's in the town from 1904 to 1924. The Lancashire and England Test cricketer Paul Allott was born in Altrincham. Edward Kinder Bradbury was born (16 August 1881) in the town, he was awarded the Victoria Cross for gallantry and ability in organising the defence of 'L' Battery against heavy odds at"
"17 December 1915 of heart failure aged 52. Four days later he was buried at the Anglican church of St. Llwchaearn at Llanychaearn a few miles from his home. John Finnemore (born 1863) John Finnemore (1863–1915) was a British school teacher and writer of fictional novels and history and geography texts of countries - most are for younger readers. Finnemore contributed stories to popular boys' magazines of his time such as ""The Boy's Own Paper"" and ""Boys' Realm"" but he is best remembered for his books about Teddy Lester and his friends at Slapton, a fictitious English public school. The"
"Asa Butterfield Asa Maxwell Thornton Farr Butterfield (; born 1 April 1997) is an English actor. He began his acting career at the age of 9 in the television drama ""After Thomas"" (2006) and the comedy film ""Son of Rambow"" (2007). He became known for playing the main character Bruno in the Holocaust film ""The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas"" (2008), for which he received nominations for the British Independent Film Award and the London Film Critics Circle Award for Young British Performer of the Year at the age of 11. He also played the young Mordred in the hit"
"Fotherington-Tomas Basil Fotherington-Tomas is a classic fictional character in a series of books by Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle starring the archetypal English prep school boy of the 1950s, Nigel Molesworth, who is the supposed author. Nigel is a schoolboy at St Custard's, a fictional (and terrible) prep school located in a carefully unspecified part of England. Nigel's spelling is extremely uneven, a feature found endearing by fans. Whilst Nigel epitomises the worthy inky and earthy school boy, Fotherington-Tomas is the opposite, being an effete and loathed sissy. Fotherington-Tomas is reported to bear a certain resemblance to Little Lord Fauntleroy;"
"John Finnemore (born 1863) John Finnemore (1863–1915) was a British school teacher and writer of fictional novels and history and geography texts of countries - most are for younger readers. Finnemore contributed stories to popular boys' magazines of his time such as ""The Boy's Own Paper"" and ""Boys' Realm"" but he is best remembered for his books about Teddy Lester and his friends at Slapton, a fictitious English public school. The stories have a strong sporting focus, with Lester excelling at rugby, cricket and other games. He also wrote a few adult novels. Finnemore was also a writer of early"
"the moral effect of novels on young minds, and those that were published tended to lean towards giving moral instruction. ""Jane Eyre"" (1847) by Charlotte Brontë, and ""Dombey and Son"" (1848) and ""David Copperfield"" (1850) by Charles Dickens had school story elements, which generated considerable public interest and close to 100 school stories had been published between 1749 and 1857, the year that ""Tom Brown's School Days"" by Thomas Hughes appeared. It is perhaps the most famous of all such tales, and its popularity helped firmly establish the genre, which rapidly expanded in the decades to follow across thousands of"
"Bully Boy Bully Boy is a play by British-Danish playwright and comedian Sandi Toksvig. The show opened at the Nuffield Theatre in Southampton, on 13 May 2011, with Anthony Andrews as Major Oscar Hadley and Joshua Miles as Private Eddie Clark. The play then launched the debut season of St James Theatre in September 2012, the first new West End theatre to open in 30 years. The play considers the impact of war on the relationship between an officer, Oscar, who uses a wheelchair after service in the Falklands, and Eddie, a young private accused of throwing an eight-year-old boy"
"Twentieth-century boys' school stories were often comical in nature – examples being the Billy Bunter stories and the Jennings series. Coeducation remained rare in boarding school stories. Enid Blyton's Naughtiest Girl series was unusually set in a progressive coeducational school. J. K. Rowlings' Harry Potter series represents a more recent example of a mixed-sex boarding school. The peak period for school stories was between the 1880s and the end of the Second World War. Comics featuring school stories also became popular in the 1930s. After World War II boarding school stories waned in popularity. Coeducational schools for all British schoolchildren"
"and various members of the Marcos and Zobel de Ayala family. Tory Boy, a notorious character from a sketch by Harry Enfield, is a fictional Old Worthian. It was a satirical portrayal of those boys from prominent catholic families that Enfield attended school with. The term ""Tory Boy"" has since been used as a caricature of young Conservative MPs. Worth School Worth School is a co-educational Roman Catholic boarding and day independent school for pupils from 11 to 18 years of age near Worth, West Sussex, England. Until 2012, Worth was exclusively a boys' school. The school is located within"
"Charles Buckeridge Charles Buckeridge (""circa"" 1832–73) was a British Gothic Revival architect who trained as a pupil of Sir George Gilbert Scott. He practised in Oxford 1856–68 and in London from 1869. He was made an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1861. Charles was born in France, the son of Charles Elliott Buckeridge and his wife Eliza, the daughter of John Eyre of Reading, Berkshire. He grew up in Salisbury in Wiltshire. He was married and raised three sons and three daughters in Oxford, including John Hingeston Buckeridge, who was a church architect, and Charles Edgar"
"College until the age of 17, he attended St Louise's Comprehensive College. In 2013 he then began training at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff before graduating in 2016 with a BA(Hons) in Acting. Anthony Boyle Anthony Boyle (born 8 June 1994) is an Northern Irish actor best known for his role as Scorpius Malfoy in the English play ""Harry Potter and the Cursed Child"" (2016), for which he won the Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. In spring of 2018, Boyle made his Broadway debut in the West End transfer of ""Harry"
"Buckeridge (1864 - 1898), who painted church interiors. Charles was brother-in-law of the botanist Giles Munby. Much of Buckeridge's work was for parish churches and other institutions of the Church of England. Dates that Sherwood and Pevsner cite dates for work at Charlbury and Emmington suggest that these works, like that at Bletchingdon, were completed posthumously. Charles Buckeridge Charles Buckeridge (""circa"" 1832–73) was a British Gothic Revival architect who trained as a pupil of Sir George Gilbert Scott. He practised in Oxford 1856–68 and in London from 1869. He was made an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects"
"Andy Cunningham (actor) Andrew Cunningham (13 May 1950 – 5 June 2017) was an English actor, puppeteer, ventriloquist and writer. He was best known as the creator and main writer of the children's BBC television series, ""Bodger & Badger"", in which he acted as the likeable but accident prone Simon Bodger and his pet, Badger. Cunningham studied at the University of Cambridge, where he read English. He dropped out of this course at the end of the second of its three years, citing academic pressures as the reason for doing so, but later completed his degree at the University of"
"Robert Aramayo Robert Aramayo (born 7 November 1992) is an English actor. Aramayo's acting career began at the age of seven when he played the role of Bugsy Malone in a primary school production. When he was ten he joined the Hull Truck Youth Theatre, performing in about three plays a year. His older sister Laura also began an acting career at the Hull Truck Youth Theatre and studied drama at the Arden School of Theatre in Manchester. He attended Hull's Wyke College and in 2011 won a place at the prestigious Juilliard School in New York City. His performance"
"2008, the school became a Trust school under the rules of the Education and Inspections Act 2006. The school converted to academy status in December 2012. From 2015 it became a standard secondary school accepting its first cohort of Year 7 students since the 1973 reorganisation following the change in the age of transfer in Worthing. The school has been rated ""good"" with outstanding areas on its previous OFSTED inspection in April 2016. Former students of the school include former tennis player Martin Lee, ethical entrepreneur Anita Roddick and actor Tony Caunter, who played Roy Evans in ""EastEnders"". Worthing High"