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Queen's College

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Queen's College

The is a lively site and provides some history.

Catherine Mansfield was a student at Queen's College. 'My college life, which is such a vivid and detailed memory in one way, might never have contained a book or a lecture. I lived in the girls, the professor, the big, lovely building, the leaping fires in winter and the abundant flowers in summer. The views out of the windows, all the pattern that was - weaving.' From 'Letters and Journals' Penguin Bandol, December 1915-April 1916.

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Queen's College

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Queen's College

Queen's College, founded 1848. This college is an Independent Day School for...

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Aske's Hospital

Aske's Hospital

About the building, from Shoreditch College: "The first building on {this site} was Aske's Hospital or the Haberdashers' Alms Houses, erected 1690-93 to designs of Robert Hooke ... for the Worshipf...

Group, Education, Social Welfare

2 memorials
William Gilpin

William Gilpin

Artist, author, cleric and schoolmaster. He was a sketcher and collector of prints, and worked as a curate, before becoming a master, and then headmaster at Cheam School.  In 1768 he published 'Ess...

Person, Art, Education, Literature, Religion

1 memorial
Bushra Nasir

Bushra Nasir

Studied at Queen Mary University and in 1997 became the first Muslim headteacher of a state school, Plashet School for Girls in East Ham.

Person, Education

1 memorial
Lieutenant Colonel Henry Stuart Townend, O.B.E., M.A.

Lieutenant Colonel Henry Stuart Townend, O.B.E., M.A.

Athlete, headmaster and politician. Born Henry Stewart Townend. In his youth he participated in athletics, and was a schoolboy hockey international.  Retired from the army, as Lieutenant-Colonel, ...

Person, Armed Forces, Education, Politics & Administration, Sport / Games, Switzerland

1 memorial
R. E. H. Goffin

R. E. H. Goffin

Robert Edwin Hemblington Goffin was born in 1836 in Highgate, Middlesex, the eldest of the eleven children of John Breeze Goffin (1799-1874) and Martha Goffin née Hall (1810-1891). On 9 October 183...

Person, Education, Politics & Administration

1 memorial