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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… with a number of Renaissance scholars including Erasmus and Richard Croke, lecturer in Greek in the University and afterwards the first public orator. Siberch had printed a Greek textbook for Croke in Cologne, and through his influence received an advance of 20 to set up …
Survey of London
… to the Office of Works, to house London University, and was opened by Queen Victoria in pouring rain on 11 May … the University was confined to the conduct of examinations and the bestowal of degrees: no courses of instruction were … by the authorities'. 39 Among the assembly the 'Indian religious reformer' Baboo Keshub Chunder Sen was prominent …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Bedford College Argent between two flaunches paly bendy or and sable a cross pattee throughout gules voided of the … requirements the College acquired in 1918-19 two groups of houses in Dorset Square, N.W. 1, and Adamson Road, … College School of those schools pledging themselves to the religious principles of the College, eleven grammar schools …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… the cross of St. George thereon theunion rose irradiated and en-signed with the imperial crownproper a chief azure … both because they were expensive and because they imposed religious tests; unproductive of any return commensurate with … University offered by contrast higher education free of religious tests; a non-resident system that substantially …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Cambridge by John Caius, but even in his own time Twyne's opinions on this subject were received with amused tolerance … now generally agreed that the University had no founder, and that its rise was due to causes which in the 12th century … convenientissimus. 1' From early times there were certain religious houses in the neighbourhood of Oxford which were …
A History of the County of Chester
… THE V.C.H. CHESHIRE APPEAL The following individuals and organizations contributed generously to an appeal for … Esq., Bolesworth H. M. Bibby, Esq., Llansannan, Denb. Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Brace, Mollington Gyles Brandreth, Esq., London Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Brown, Huntington G. Burkinshaw, Exeter Dr. …
Old and New London
… EmbankmentOffices of the London School BoardSomerset House and the New Will DepositorySpecial Curiosities in the Will … on Nelson's ColumnStatue of Sir James OutramPublic Garden and PromenadeSt. Stephen's Club. Many architects and … massive piers of granite (intended to be surmounted with groups of statuary), which flank recesses for steamboat …
Survey of London
… The village centres around St. Mary Abbots church and Notting Hill Gate CHAPTER I - The Village Centres around … adviser, John Whichcord, was appointed, but his opinions were entirely ignored by the vestrymen, who disliked … the Soho Academy), 102 and the small plot between the two groups (now the site of Yates's timber-yard, Nos. 144148) was …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… Harbledowne turnpike, on the London road, about two miles and a quarter, and across from Whitstaple and Seasalter parishes southward … tracts of lands within it, especially to the neighbouring religious houses, till at length almost the whole of it was …
Survey of London
… marsh which afterwards became Cuper's Gardens (see p. 25), and the seven acres of Hopes later owned by Jesus College on … in the 15th century the property of the Earls of Arundel and later of the Dukes of Norfolk (see p. 137). The sale in … sold by Augustine Skinner in 1657 251 to Edmund Walcott and was by him left in trust for the poor of St. Mary, …