Thomas Arnold, 1840

Thomas Arnold (June 13, 1795 – June 12, 1842) was a British schoolmaster and historian, head of Rugby School from 1828 to 1841. Image File history File links Thomas_Arnold_(Educator). ... Image File history File links Thomas_Arnold_(Educator). ... is the 164th day of the year (165th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1795 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... is the 163rd day of the year (164th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1842 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... A view of Rugby School from The Close, the playing field where according to legend Rugby was invented Rugby School, located in the town of Rugby, Warwickshire, is one of the oldest public schools in England and is one of the major co-educational boarding schools in the country. ...

Biography

Arnold was born on the Isle of Wight, the son of William Arnold, an inland revenue officer, and his wife Martha de la Field. He was educated at Winchester and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. There he excelled at Classics and was made a fellow of Oriel in 1815. His appointment to the headship of Rugby, the famous public school, after some years as a tutor, turned the school's fortunes around, and his force of character and religious zeal enabled him to turn it into a model followed by the other public schools, exercising an unprecedented influence on the educational system of the country. He is portrayed as a leading character in the novel, Tom Brown's Schooldays. For other uses, see Isle of Wight (disambiguation). ... Winchester College is a public school situated in the city of Winchester in Hampshire, in the south of England. ... College name Corpus Christi College Named after Corpus Christi, Body of Christ Established 1517 Sister College Corpus Christi College President Sir Tim Lankester JCR President Binyamin Even Undergraduates 239 Graduates 126 Homepage Corpus Christi College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. ... College name Oriel College Named after Blessed Virgin Mary Established 1324 Sister College Clare College, Cambridge Trinity College, Dublin Provost Sir Derek Morris JCR President Frank Hardee Undergraduates 304 Graduates 158 Homepage Boatclub Oriel College (in full: The House of Blessed Mary the Virgin in Oxford commonly called Oriel College... A view of Rugby School from The Close, the playing field where according to legend Rugby was invented Rugby School, located in the town of Rugby, Warwickshire, is one of the oldest public schools in England and is one of the major co-educational boarding schools in the country. ... Cover of 1999 re-issue by Oxford Worlds Classics Tom Browns Schooldays, first published in 1857, is a novel by Thomas Hughes, set at a public school, Rugby School for Boys, in the 1830s when Hughes himself had been a student there. ...

He was involved in many controversies, educational and religious. As a churchman he was a decided Erastian, and strongly opposed to the High Church party. In 1841, he was appointed Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford. His 1833 Principles of Church Reform is associated with the beginnings of the Broad Church movement.^[1] He was also one of the Eminent Victorians in Lytton Strachey's book of that name. Thomas Erastus (September 7, 1524 - December 31, 1583), German-Swiss theologian, whose surname was Liber, Lieber, or Liebler, was born of poor parents, probably at Baden, canton of Aargau, Switzerland. ... High Church relates to ecclesiology and liturgy in Christian theology and practice. ... The Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford is an old-established professorial position. ... Broad church is a term referring to latitudinarian churches in the Church of England. ... Eminent Victorians is a book by Lytton Strachey, the oldest member of the Bloomsbury Group first published in 1918 and consisting of biographies of four leading figures from the Victorian era. ... Giles Lytton Strachey (March 1, 1880–January 21, 1932) was a British writer and critic. ...

His chief literary works are his unfinished History of Rome (three volumes 1838-42), and his Lectures on Modern History. He died suddenly of angina pectoris in the midst of his growing influence. His biography, Life of Arnold, by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, one of Arnold's former pupils, is considered one of the best works of its class in the language.^{[citation needed]} Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (December 13, 1815 _ July 18, 1881), was an English churchman, dean of Westminster. ...

Huxley and Arnold family tree.

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Notes

Family

He married Mary Penrose, daughter of the Rev. John Penrose of Penryn, Cornwall. They had three daughters and four sons, including the poet Matthew Arnold, the literary scholar Tom, and the author William Delafield Arnold. Their eldest daughter Jane Martha married William Edward Forster, and when William Arnold died in 1859, leaving four orphans, the Forsters adopted them as their own, adding their name to the children's surname. One of these children was Hugh Oakeley Arnold-Forster, a Liberal Unionist member of parliament, who eventually became a member of Balfour's cabinet.. Penryn (Cornish: Pennrynn, from Pen-ryn meaning promontory) is a town in Cornwall, England, UK on the Penryn river. ... For other uses, see Cornwall (disambiguation). ... Matthew Arnold Caricature from Punch, 1881: Admit that Homer sometimes nods, That poets do write trash, Our Bard has written Balder Dead, And also Balder-dash Family tree Matthew Arnold (24 December 1822 – 15 April 1888) was an English poet and cultural critic, who worked as an inspector of schools. ... Tom Arnold also known as Thomas Arnold the Younger (1823-1900) was a British literary professor. ... William Delafield Arnold (1828-1859) was a British author and colonial administrator. ... William Edward Forster in 1851 William Edward Forster (July 11, 1818 - April 6, 1886), British statesman, was born of Quaker parents at Bradpole in Dorsetshire. ... Hugh Oakeley Arnold-Forster PC (19 August 1855-12 March 1909) was a British politician. ... This article is part of or related to the Liberalism series Categories: Politics stubs | Liberal related stubs | UK political parties | Historical liberal parties ... A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters to a parliament. ... For the steel manufacturer, see Arthur Balfour, 1st Baron Riverdale. ...

Thomas the Younger's daughter Mary Augusta Arnold, became a famous novelist under her married name of Mrs Humphry Ward, whilst Tom's other daughter married Leonard Huxley (writer), the son of Thomas Huxley and their sons were Julian and Aldous Huxley. Mary Augusta Ward Mary Augusta Ward (June 11, 1851 - March 26, 1920), was a novelist. ... Leonard Huxley (December 11, 1860 - 1933) was a British writer and editor. ... Thomas Henry Huxley, FRS (4 May 1825 – 29 June 1895) [1] was an English biologist, known as Darwins Bulldog for his advocacy of Charles Darwins theory of evolution. ... Sir Julian Sorell Huxley, FRS (June 22, 1887 – February 14, 1975) was a English biologist, author, Humanist and internationalist, known for his popularisations of science in books and lectures. ... Aldous Leonard Huxley (July 26, 1894 – November 22, 1963) was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family. ...

Reputation

A more recent public school headmaster, Michael McCrum of Tonbridge and Eton in the 1960s through 1980s, and also a churchman and Oxbridge academic (Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and Vice-Chancellor), wrote a biography and reappraisal of Arnold in 1991. McCrum was steeped in the significance of Rugby and of public schools; he too had briefly been a master at Rugby and was married to the daughter of another former headmaster. Michael William McCrum CBE (23 May 1924–February 16, 2005) was an English academic and ancient historian who served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, Master of Corpus Christi College and headmaster of Eton College. ... College name The College of Corpus Christi and the Blessed Virgin Mary in Cambridge Motto There is a toast, Floreat antiqua domus (Latin: May the old house flourish), from which the college’s nickname, ‘Old House’, is derived Founders The Guild of Corpus Christi The Guild of the Blessed Virgin...

More recently, a biography entitled Black Tom has been written by Terence Copley. Both McCrum and Copley have sought to restore some of the lustre to the Arnold legacy which has been heavily under attack since Strachey's sardonic appraisal.

References

• This article incorporates public domain text from: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London, J.M. Dent & sons; New York, E.P. Dutton.
• Thomas Arnold, The Christian Duty of Granting the Claims of the Roman Catholics (pamphlet) Rugby, 1828.
• Thomas Arnold, Sermons Preached in the Chapel of Rugby School, London: Fellowes, 1850 (original 1832).
• Thomas Arnold (translator), The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, (3 vols.) London: Fellowes, 1845.
• Thomas Arnold, Principles of Church Reform, Oxford: Fellowes,1833.
• Thomas Arnold, History of Rome, London: Fellowes, 1838.
• Thomas Arnold, Sermons: Christian Life, its Hopes, Fears and Close, London: Fellowes, 1842.
• Thomas Arnold, Sermons: Christian Life, its Course, London: Fellowes, 1844.
• Thomas Arnold, The Interpretation of Scripture, London: Fellowes, 1845.
• Thomas Arnold, Introductory Lectures on Modern History, London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1842.
• Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, The Life and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold, London: Fellowes, 1845 (original 1844).
• Tom Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days, London: Penguin, 1994 (original 1857).
• Lytton Strachey, Eminent Victorians, London, 1918.
• Michael McCrum, Thomas Arnold, Headmaster, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.
• Terrence Copley, Black Tom: Arnold of Rugby: The Myth and the Man, New York: Continuum, 2002.

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External links

• Works by Thomas Arnold at Project Gutenberg

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