biography
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| (1795–1842)
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| biography:
| Educationist, scholar, and headmaster of Rugby School, born in East Cowes, Isle of Wight, S England, UK the father of Matthew Arnold and Mary Augusta Ward. He studied at Oxford, took deacon's orders in 1818, and in 1828 was appointed headmaster of Rugby. He reformed the school system (especially by introducing sports and ending bullying). The style of teaching he introduced was graphically described in Thomas Hughes's Tom Brown's Schooldays (1857). He wrote several volumes of sermons, as well as works on classical and modern history. In 1841 he was appointed professor of modern history at Oxford. |
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